Recipe for Success is a community effort to promote literacy, healthy eating, and food-related careers through cooking activities. The program will launch in the fall of 2008 and will focus on third, seventh, and ninth graders in the Rochester City School District (RCSD).

Recipe for Success is an outgrowth of Rochester Education Foundation's successful and continuing Give Back, Give Books program, through which more than 16,000 new books have been donated to city school students and city school libraries. Recipe for Success will continue the mission of Give Back, Give Books by offering cookbooks and books about gardening to students.

Recipe for Success will also encourage healthy living by distributing a healthy eating cookbook and helping teachers and volunteers share the fundamentals of healthy eating and food preparation. Students will have hands-on experience in handling and preparing fresh foods and the opportunity to taste those foods. We will also create opportunities for students to engage with food professionals such as chefs, both in school and through field trips to food-related businesses.

Help us cook up a success for the students of the Rochester City School District. There are lots of ways you can help!