Community Servings

Community Servings is a Jamaica Plain nonprofit that cooks and delivers medically tailored meals to people living with critical and chronic illnesses across Massachusetts. Meals are made from scratch, fully prepared and home-delivered weekly, with menus designed to be medically appropriate for conditions such as HIV, cancer, diabetes and kidney disease. The meals are free to clients and their families, and the organization commits to prioritizing racial and economic justice and health equity.

Founded in 1990, the organization has provided more than 15 million meals and cites research showing that its meals help keep people out of the hospital while reducing health care costs. Beyond the kitchen, it offers nutrition counseling, runs a Teaching Kitchen vocational training program that partners with recovery programs, and advocates for medically tailored meals to be built into public and private health care systems. Its stated values are community, connection, inclusion and nourishment.

What to Know

• Its AMPL Institute publishes an annual report on integrating medically tailored nutrition into U.S. health care.
• The Bernie Smith Legacy Society is its planned giving program for donors.
• Internships are available across the organization through an online application.
• It hires for roles including bilingual client services, driver operations and distribution center staff.