In 2021, hot bread kitchen worked with 176 individuals across all of our programming. Hot bread kitchen continued to provide one-on-one outreach and social service support to members who lost their jobs due to the pandemic. We provided 91 members with one-on-one individualized support to help ensure the women we serve had the resources and support, such as access to childcare, public benefits, and housing services, to make progress against their personal and professional goals. While our signature culinary training program remained on hiatus through 2021 due to the ongoing pandemic, we piloted the facility management job training program, in partnership with the international facility management association foundation. Thirty-six women participated in the facility management program. We piloted english language and digital skills classes, preparing women for our workforce development programs. Twenty-four women participated in our inaugural english language class and 14 members participated in our digital skills pilot. In addition, 45 members participated in individual financial coaching sessions, covering a wide range of topics including savings, banking, credit, debt, and budgets.

Hot bread kitchen provided services and programs to help mitigate the ongoing impacts of covid-19 on small businesses. We invested in supplier diversity opportunities that connected our small business members to a network of buyers in grocery, retail, and institutional settings that altogether created meaningful sales opportunities, generating over $70,000 in additional revenue for 13 businesses. We also continued to operate the chef collective - a triple bottom line small business effort that addressed small business recovery, hunger relief and food waste. The chef collective, made up of four hot bread kitchen catering businesses, produced 27,000 meals for distribution, generating over $275,000 in revenue for the chefs. Additionally, we continued to provide ongoing education for aspiring entrepreneurs through our prep for success course, in which 15 women participated.