Student Cooks
We are a unique multi-generational service organization, allowing others to come together to experience the joy of serving and the strength of coming together as a community regardless of age or ability.
Click below to visit our Volunteer page. You can then access and print the forms needed to get started on your journey to serving others.
Adult Cooks
We help build meaningful relationships amongst all members of the community, providing ways for children, teens and adults associated with a variety of organizations to interact on behalf of those most vulnerable and in need of support.
Adult Volunteer Sign Up
Current VP Adult Cooks can sign up for a shift using the SignUp.com link below.
If you’re interested in becoming an adult cook, click below to visit our Volunteer page where you can download and print the Volunteer Application and Emergency Medical Form, or call us at 440-348-9401 to learn how to get started volunteering!
Green Aprons
Truly connecting is learning to care for one another, taking time to build relationships, sharing ourselves and our resources to better our community.
Green Aprons are awarded to the Teen Cooks who volunteer twelve times, or 24 hours, in the kitchen.
Nourishing clients and their families through healthy, nutritious meals.
What‘s Cooking In The Kitchen?
Meet Janis Reinke, Village Project’s Culinary Director.
Highly talented, Janice joined Village Project in 2015. She graduated with Academic Honors from the Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts (Boulder, CO) where she completed the Escoffier Culinary Arts Fundamentals Program. Janice also completed a 6-week internship with Marigold Catering Co. in Cleveland, OH.
As Culinary Director, she oversees our kitchen program, designing menus that are both nourishing and delicious. Recipes are carefully selected; they are nutrient dense and are free from white flour, processed sugar and red meat.
Along with three complete meals that are delivered weekly to the entire family, clients also receive a wonderful herb and vegetable immunity broth. During periods of treatment, radiation and chemotherapy can diminish a client’s appetite and ability to swallow. Prepared weekly in our kitchen, this broth simmers for hours and provides essential nutrients so critical to maintaining the individual’s strength.
Meals-To-Go Are Here!
It All Starts April 2nd!
Stop by Project Shoppe on your way home and pick up a quick and healthy option for dinner tonight! Select Village Project meals are now available for purchase. You can also stock up on our herb and vegetable immunity broth. It’s a perfect base for your next homemade soup or a healthy and hydrating option for those going through treatment who may have little to no appetite.
Fresh entrees are individually packaged and available for $9 each. Immunity broth is sold in 32 oz. pouches for $4 per bag. Meals and broth can easily be frozen for later use.
Menu for the week of April 8th:
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Chicken Tortilla Soup with Tortilla and Guacamole
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Tuna Casserole with Side of Asparagus
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Roasted Vegetable Salad with Farro
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Berry Crisp
Meet Kira Wynocker, our new Culinary Assistant!
A nurse by day, a mother and chef come night, Kira knows the value and potential impact of a wholesome, healthy meal. When she isn’t delivering babies at Cleveland Clinic’s Fairview birthing center, helping women assume the mantle of motherhood, she’s cooking for or with her four children; helping friends in need or baking with her 98 year old grandmother. Kira loves food- preparing, sharing and savoring- but her primary goal in life is to nurture and nourish. At the Village Project, she looks forward to pursuing both passions!
Gatherings From The Garden
Meet Sherri Reilly, Village Project’s Garden Coordinator
This is Sherri’s 7th year as our Garden Coordinator. With a background in Outdoor Education, and a degree in Elementary Education from Ohio State University, Sherri organizes adult volunteers to help weed and water. She also guides and teaches children twice a week, in every aspect of gardening-prepping soil, weeding, planting, watering, pruning, harvesting herbs and vegetables, cutting flowers, and collecting seeds for a later planting.
Community Garden--home of Village Project's garden plots
Nature at it's finest in June!
It's holiday vase painting time
Our teen gardeners striking a pose
July 4th holiday vases
Fresh beets harvested today
Village Project teens and young volunteers breaking for a quick photo
Late-July flowers from our plots: daisy, tall phlox, larkspur, purple coneflower, cosmos, black-eyed susan, zinnia and asparagus fern; gorgeous!
Volunteers busy harvesting for fall
Nature's bounty at season's end
