This website details the proposal we developed while in our restaurant Modern Tea.  Although we are involved in a new phase of teaching inner city youth about cooking and working, we hold onto the possibility of someday connecting to this dream.  Thank you for visiting!

Imagine your favorite neighborhood restaurant, one serving local, farm-fresh foods. 

Now imagine it functioning as a high school learning lab, with at-risk-youth working side-by-side with professional chefs and kitchen staff.

Finally, imagine some of San Francisco’s finest restaurateurs, chefs, food purveyors, and farmers engaging with these same high school students, inviting them to experience the transformative properties of food and cooking.

You’ve just imagined Modern Cooks, an innovative non-profit that is developing garden-to-table learning projects in collaboration with other community-based organizations and neighborhood public schools.  Our newest project will be at Ida B. Wells High School, providing hands-on opportunities for at-risk youth to gain vocational skills in food and cooking, both at the high school and in a professional restaurant setting.  

We are building on the success of our pilot project, a summer and after school program that brought school-aged youth from the Western Addition Beacon Center through Koshland Park Community Learning Garden into the kitchen at Modern Tea restaurant to prepare and then enjoy garden-fresh meals. 

We are now in our active phase of fundraising, please find out more about us! Download this narrative proposal See our latest budget work Email us! Connect, Collaborate or Suggest                              or Continue Reading our Proposal in Sequence

Collaborating with HVNPG at Modern Tea