2025 Albright Thanksgiving Dinner Recap

This year’s dinner was a huge success. We served over 250 meals onsite and extra portions were sent to East End Community Ministries.

We want to thank you and share some lovely photos from the Albright Thanksgiving Eve Dinner.

A huge thank you to photographer Larry Rippel for stopping by again this year and capturing some photos of the dinner.

You can see more photos that Larry captured of the dinner here.

Check out our Instagram page @AlbrightPGH for more photos.

2025 Dinner Featured On WTAE

WTAE covered the 2025 Thanksgiving Eve dinner. Check out the video here.

Thank you to the volunteers and donors!

Thank you to the 100+ people who donated time and money to make this year’s Thanksgiving Eve Dinner possible.

First United Methodist Church

A BIG thank you to First United Methodist Church and the generous donation of their beautiful social hall and kitchen facilities. We are grateful for their continued support of the Thanksgiving Eve dinner.

Students of St. Edmunds Academy

Thank you to the students from St. Edmund’s Academy who decorated placemats and posters to help decorate the table and the room for the dinner.

Supporters

We are grateful to these businesses for donating both time and food to the 2025 Albright Thanksgiving Eve Dinner.

Giant Eagle
Millie’s Ice Cream
Crumble Cookies
Eat N’Park

We Shop Local! Community Kitchen & Breadworks

While most of the meal is prepared by volunteers, we are proud that we can support these local organizations and businesses to help with the dinner.

Community Kitchen Pittsburgh

This year, both the turkey and pies were prepared by Community Kitchen. Community Kitchen is a nonprofit organization located in Hazelwood that offers no-cost job training in the culinary industries. Community Kitchen provides catering and prepares many of the grab-and-go items you might pick up in coffee shops around the city.

Breadworks

All of the rolls for this year’s meal were purchased from Breadworks. You can find products from Breadworks at local businesses across Western Pennsylvania or stop by their retail shop (2110 Brighton Rd Pittsburgh, PA 15212).

Volunteer Here: First Food and Friends

Each year, many of you have reached out to ask where you can volunteer on a regular basis. Every Saturday, First United Methodist Church serves a free meal through their First Food and Friends program.

Follow the First Food and Friends Facebook page for updates.

Thank You! 2021 Thanksgiving Eve Dinner Photos

The 2021 Albright Thanksgiving Eve Dinner was a huge success. We served over 300 meals, both hot meals in the parking lot of the First United Methodist Church, and packaged to go.

Thank you to all of our supporters who donated – we had over 55 people contribute to our GoFundMe page this year! And a BIG THANK YOU to Community Kitchen Pittsburgh who prepared the holiday feast.

Community Kitchen is a nonprofit organization located in the Hazelwood neighborhood of Pittsburgh that offers no-cost job training in culinary industries. Community Kitchen has a strong catering operation and prepares many of the grab & go items you might pick up in coffee shops around the city.

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy holiday season.

Thank you again for your generous support.

– The Friends of Albright Team

Thank You for Making the 2018 Albright Thanksgiving Eve Dinner One of Our Largest!

The 2018 Albright Thanksgiving Eve dinner was a huge success! We had over 100 volunteers who helped with cooking and clean up. This year we served over 250 meals on-site and an additional 100 meals were sent to a local shelter for distribution!

The 2018 Thanksgiving Dinner was featured in a video on the Post-Gazette website!

More photos from the evening…

Yams!

In the kitchen.

Waiting for the guests to arrive.

Neighbors serving neighbors.

Over 200 people joined us for a home cooked meal.

Volunteers help with the serving line.

Rabbi Eli gives the blessing before dinner.

Thank You!

This is a 100% volunteer-run event…and thanks to all, throughout our greater Pittsburgh community for prepping and cooking the food, serving the hot meals, setting up tables, and clean up.

A special thanks to:

All of the Volunteers & Donors!

Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield

Thank you for your financial sponsorship of the dinner.

First United Methodist Church

Thank you for the use of your facility and all of your wonderful volunteers.

East End Cooperative Ministry

Thank you for your time and the use of your facility.

Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank

Thank you for distributing additional meals from the dinner to Pittsburgh neighbors.

New Sun Rising

For your continued support of Friends of Albright and this annual event.

Albright Thanksgiving Dinner – Now A Zero Waste Event

PRC-Zero-waste We are excited to announce that we will be working with the Pennsylvania Resource Council (PRC) to make the 2015 Albright Thanksgiving Dinner a Zero-Waste event. We will be recycling and composting almost all of the waste produced from both the cooking and the Thanksgiving Eve dinner. (We were not able to get compostable utensils for this years dinner).

Friends of Albright is committed to sustainability and we are happy to have the support of the PRC and many volunteers to make this possible.

What is Zero Waste? From the PRC website:

Zero Waste is a philosophy that aims to turn the “waste” from every process into resources for another process. In other words, outputs (waste) become inputs (resources) and nothing is wasted. This requires the designing and managing of products and processes to minimize and ultimately eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, this allows for the conservation and recovery all resources. Zero Waste represents an economic alternative to current waste systems, where new resources are continually required to replenish wasted raw materials.

Zero-Waste-Event-Services-Bin-Monitoring-Team — Photo credit: PA Resources Council

If you are coming to attend the dinner or volunteer we will have detailed instructions on how to sort any waste so that it can be recycled or composted properly.

Learn more about the PA Resource Council and Zero Waste events here.