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Who We Are
FULL Tummies Network is a Collective devoted to providing sustainable support to impoverished communities throughout the Greater Bay Area. This year, join us in supporting the community of Visitacion Valley's Sunnydale neighborhood for the 27th Annual Family Day, Back to School Backpack and Laptop Giveaway and their annual Holiday Food and Gift Giveaway.
Through local corporate, public and private sponsorship we are able to provide social services, nourishment and outreach to local residents in need. We provide alternatives for job and life preparedness as well as violence prevention awareness.
FULL Tummies Create Open Mind...see below.

Our Network
CULINARY VOCATIONAL PROGRAMMING
Through community partnerships with conscience organizations, we provide 6-month evidence based programming for students (transitional age youth and empty nester - seniors) with the unique opportunity to participate in a training program in which they will be granted a unique understanding of culinary history and opportunities within the Culinary Arts no other school or training program has to offer. Our "Training's" focus on the use of practical skills within a commercial kitchen as the as "advanced training" to provide a hands-on entrepreneurial path to developing and cultivating a prosperous culinary related career.
BENCHMARKS
It is our goal to have each participant walk away with knowledge and practical experience unsurpassed to any conventional culinary program, as follows:
CULINARY TRAINING
▪ Vast Knowledge of Culinary Arts Careers
▪ Food History and Food Service Responsibility
▪ Seasonal Products and Local Sustainability
▪ Recipe Research & Writing
▪ Financial Literacy: Budgeting, Profit & Loss, Sales
▪ Business Development, Marketing and Branding
▪ Certification(s)
▪ Fine Dining Experience
▪ Advancement|Placement Opportunities
▪ Working Knowledge of Day to Day Commercial Operations
▪ Food Storage, Packaging, Preservation and Preparation
▪ Customer Service & Hospitality
▪ Scheduling & Budgeting
▪ Purchasing & Menu Development
▪ Basic Sous Chef and Line Cook Skills
▪ Commercial Kitchen Cleaning Best Practice
▪ Business Requirement and Standard Practices
▪ Staff Management & Business Development
▪ Special Events & Branding Opportunities
▪ Marketed Surveying & Business Development
COMING 2026 ... CONSTRUCTION "BUILD" ON THE JOB TRAINING PROGRAMMING
