A Joint Statement from Civil Rights Leaders and Organizations on Black History Month  "I still can't see why Democracy means everybody but me." Langston Hughes As civil rights leaders and organizations, we stand together this Black History Month to call attention to the income inequality plaguing Boston’s communities of color.  ...

CommonWealth Kitchen, Boston’s first and largest food business incubator, hosted national and city dignitaries today, July 7, 2015, as part of the Choice Neighborhood Revitalization.  Today, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro visited the Dorchester facility.  ...

In my job as Executive Director at CommonWealth Kitchen, I have the pleasure of working with food-based startups every day.  I am continually inspired by the passion, the dreams and the determination that these entrepreneurs possess.  Often times, this passion translates easily to sales of their food product.  In other instances,...

Ever since we changed our organizational name, I have been asked about the thinking we went through to get to “CommonWealth Kitchen”.  Now that we have been living with the name and getting used to the new moniker for a few months, I am realizing that our choice was a sound one.      Another instance of validatio...

Have you tried the Green Bloody Mary at Legal Sea Foods yet?  The story of the Green Bloody Mary product development is a case of serendipity in the CommonWealth Kitchen.  Every day, connections among members occur in our shared kitchen, but it is often under the radar. One member, Jubali, a fresh juice producer, had been supplying ...