FoodCorps Responds to New USDA Nutrition Standards for School Meals
NJ Service Member Lauren Nixon shares her baked sweet potato fries with Cooking Light
FoodCorps New Jersey Service Member Lauren Nixon knows that kids love french fries. So what about the healthier no less delicious alternative? Baked sweet potato fries, mmm!
A Classroom Ceremony for Food
“All hail kale!” we cheered with our forks raised before chomping down on bites of kale salad. It was my second class of the day with the fifth graders at Ronan Middle School, who had just finished making three variations of Massaged Kale Salad: Basic, Greek, and Spice it Up. After the salads were ready, … Continued
Yale Alumni Magazine: Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney go from school to farm to school to address childhood obesity
It’s one thing to make a documentary about food policy and the politics of obesity. It’s another thing to become part of the solution.
Jenny Shilling Stein gives FoodCorps as an example of metrics-driven innovation in Stanford Social Innovation Review
By introducing a learning agenda, funders can encourage innovation, drive philanthropic dollars to the best programs, and become better partners to grantees.
USDA Partners with FoodCorps to Grow Healthy Eaters
USDA announces that USDA and FoodCorps are teaming up!
Bon Appetit features 7 schools—including a FoodCorps site— where school lunch is healthy and local
At public school lunch rooms around the country, it’s now possible to taste dishes like shrimp cocktail (with homemade cocktail sauce), grass-fed burgers with roasted potatoes, and burrito bowls with local veggies and antibiotic-free chicken.
It’s an Alien! It’s a Spaceship! Nope, it’s…
“It looks like a baby alien!” “A space ship!” “A forest of mini Christmas trees!” Those were just a few of the remarks I heard when I arrived at Traverse Heights Elementary School in Traverse City to promote the locally grown produce being served in the cafeteria.
Olympian Allyson Felix and FoodCorps co-founder Deb Eschmeyer talk about children’s health
Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix and FoodCorps co-founder and VP of External Affairs Debra Eschmeyer think there is one major thing schools around the country need to improve upon: health education.
FoodCorps on Civil Eats: Childhood obesity, turning the ship around
FoodCorps co-founder and communications director Jerusha Klemperer addresses the CDC’s recent report on declining childhood obesity rates.
Arianna Huffington, Wendy Kopp, and Service Member Stephanie Simmons spoke about why service matters
Arianna Huffington discusses The Franklin Project and the panel she led that included FoodCorps Service Member Stephanie Simmons.