Thriveon Collaboration Introduces Cafă© Operator

If you're in Milwaukee and craving a snack or a bite to eat while you wait for the school day to start, you'll soon be able to do just that.

The city's ThriveOn Collaboration has partnered with the Kinship Community Food Center to open a cafe in the ThriveOn King building, where residents of the Riverwest and Harambee neighborhoods will be able to get healthy food at affordable prices, the Milwaukee Courier reports.

As part of the partnership, the food center will be training workers to operate the cafe and teach cooking classes to students from local schools.

"We are committed to paving the way for career stability and personal healing, ensuring that everyone, including myself and all members of our workforce team, has the opportunity to grow and thrive together," says Demonte Dismuke, workforce development manager for Kinship.

The foundation is providing $350,000 in grant funding over two years to support the workforce training component of the ThriveOn King cafe as a long-term investment in cultivating individual stability and employment, per the Courier.

One example of this programming is a pediatric obesity educational program in collaboration with FoodRight, a Milwaukee-based nonprofit; Kinship; and Children's Wisconsin in which MCW medical students learn to teach culinary skills and nutrition to

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