Oakland Bloom

Oakland Bloom is a non-profit that supports poor-and-working class immigrant, refugee, and BIPOC chefs to start their own food businesses through its flagship business training and incubator program, the Open Test Kitchen. Alongside our incubator program, Oakland Bloom also works to develop cooperative food business restaurant + finance models that prioritize community safety, people power, worker rights, and pathways to ownership. In this way, we aim to radically shift the historically exploitative and toxic nature of the food service industry to one that is healthy, equitable and accessible for traditionally marginalized communities.