Dear Friends,

Warm greetings at year's end from the Kitchen Sisterhood. We want to thank you for your creative and financial support that has helped launch our latest NPR series The Hidden World of Girls and that is helping to create a new season of our award-winning Hidden Kitchens. None of these big mulitmedia collaborations would come to air without your support.

We write today to ask you to help us continue our documentary and teaching work. The Kitchen Sisters is a small independent production outfit. More than a third of our funding comes from individuals in our community like you who believe in the power of storytelling to bring communities together and illuminate little known corners of our culture.

"Driveway moments: I've heard about them forever, but haven't actually had one myself until the other night, when Judith, alarmed, found me in the driveway listening to the end of your Hidden World of Girls piece on Jamaican women. Brilliant work--the editing was gorgeous, the music sublime, but what was extraordinary was how you managed to make the story so effervescent and so sad at the same time. I think that's the mark of the Kitchen Sisters, to do justice to life in all its bittersweet, contradictory dimensions." - Michael Pollan

The Hidden World of Girls is heard by 14 million listeners on NPR and has a deeply expanded life on the web. If you've missed any of the stories listen here. Many more stories lie ahead and we need your help to fully fund this project and make certain that these pieces are as deeply searching and fully realized as they can be.

During the upcoming year your donation will support:

• A new round of Hidden World of Girls Stories on NPR & two hour-long Specials
• The Raw and the Cooked, an hour long Hidden Kitchens Special narrated by Frances McDormand
• A new season of Hidden Kitchens
• An interactive Hidden Kitchens Blog and App
• Our internship and Mentoring Program (meet our fantastic interns)
• Workshops, classes and public presentations