Food for Life Cooking Instructors

The Cancer Project’s Food for Life Nutrition and Cooking Classes for Cancer Prevention and Survival were designed by physicians, nutrition experts, and registered dietitians. Each class includes information about how certain foods and nutrients work to promote or discourage cancer growth, along with cooking demonstrations of simple and healthy recipes that can be recreated easily at home.

Next Instructor Training: late spring/early summer 2008

Application Deadline: We currently are not accepting applications.

Application Review Period: April 1, 2008 to June 15, 2008 (updates will not be available until after this period).

The Cancer Project seeks interested individuals to be trained to be Food for Life cooking instructors on a consultant basis.

Requirements

• An interest in cancer prevention and survival
• Instructors are required to follow a vegan or vegetarian diet
• An interest in food preparation and cooking
• Oral presentation skills
• Cooking skills
• Each class requires a total of five to six hours for shopping, food preparation, conducting the 1½-hour class, and clean up
• Transportation for food shopping
• An e-mail address and access to the Internet
• Attendance at a 2-day expense-paid training in Washington, D.C.
• A short video (five or more minutes) of yourself doing a cooking demonstration. The video can be homemade and can be a staged cooking class attended by family and friends. The video must be VHS or CD/DVD format. Emailing a scanned version of your application along with a link to a YouTube video is also acceptable.

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How to Apply 
To apply to be a Food for Life cooking instructor on a consultant basis, review the requirements above and if you meet these requirements, download, complete and submit the following application:

Cancer Project Cooking Instructor Application (PDF)

A short video (five or more minutes) of yourself doing a cooking demonstration is required. The video can be homemade and can be a staged cooking class attended by family and friends. The video must be VHS or CD/DVD format and must be submitted with your completed application.

If you have questions about the application process or your submitted application, please contact The Cancer Project's Human Resources department at the telephone numbers below or via e-mail at cook@cancerproject.org.

Mary Ohno
Cancer Project Assistant
202-244-5038, ext. 396

Bethany M. Richmond
Human Resources Coordinator
202-244-5038, ext. 351

Compensation
Food for Life cooking instructors are compensated $200 per class. Each Food for Life cooking series consists of eight classes.

Food for Life Cooking Instructor Update Form – to be completed by cooking instructors needing to update their personal profile with The Cancer Project. Please complete whenever your personal information or related education or experience changes.

Food for Life Cooking Instructor Update Form (PDF)

Cancer Project Cooking Instructor Applications and Food for Life Cooking Instructor Update forms should be faxed to 202-686-2818 or mailed to:

The Cancer Project

Human Resources Department

5100 Wisconsin Ave. NW

Suite 400

Washington, DC 20016

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