Introducing Our 2024-2025 Alumni Advocacy Leads
Mentorship Matters
Our alumni and service members often tell us they are looking for professional mentors and advisors, so we created the Peer Advisor Network (PAN) to make it easy for them to find people with shared interests and skills from right within the alumni and service member community. In this post, we highlight the importance of mentorship through … Continued
Curt Ellis Tells Blue Sky Funders Forum about Power of Food in Environmental Literacy
By Curt Ellis, FoodCorps CEO & Co-Founder October is National Farm to School Month, a six-year-old celebration of programs around the country working to connect kids to healthy food through cooking, gardening, and lunch trays filled with food from local farms. The organization I’m proud to lead, FoodCorps, plays a role in these efforts, providing … Continued
Chronicle of Philanthropy Profiles FoodCorps’ Hunger for Results
The Chronicle of Philanthropy profiles FoodCorps and our CEO Curt Ellis, writing about our hunger for results, how we measure our impact, and how we plan to grow to better meet the need.
Real Food and Real Skills to Combat Hunger
The first few weeks of school, we got to harvest vegetables from the garden to make the snacks. Not all of the kids were fans of the food we made together, but one girl ate everything, and then seconds and thirds. She would even eat the stems of the parsley and peel of the lemon … Continued
A Hunger for the Motor City
Hunger is everywhere in Detroit, including in the classroom. So where does food come from? How do we help?
From the Archives: Meet Julia, Taught by FoodCorps and Now a Corps Member
Five years ago, Julia was a senior starting a garden with a FoodCorps member. Today, she’s back as the FoodCorps member herself.
FoodCorps Members Commemorate September 11th with Service
FoodCorps’ AmeriCorps service members serve their communities every day, but that takes on special meaning on national days of service. On September 11th each year, they organize and participate in special projects to commemorate the lives lost on that tragic day 15 years ago and to honor those who stepped up in service in the aftermath of the attacks. Here … Continued
Child Nutrition Directors and the Importance of Partnership
Child Nutrition Director Robert Parker has been with FoodCorps from the beginning, first in Warren County, NC and now in Brunswick County, NC.
Listen Up: 5 New Episodes of FoodCorps Arizona Radio Diaries
The final five episodes of the FoodCorps Arizona Radio Diaries podcast are now available! Our Arizona leadership team gave each of of our service members there a portable recorder and microphone. The diaries they recorded capture everything from the sounds of kids digging in the garden or trying new foods to conversations with school principals and local … Continued
6 Ways to Engage Parents to Grow Healthy Families
Parents and FoodCorps service members have to work together; it can take up to a dozen times of trying a new food for a child to come around and develop a taste for it. And healthy habits built at school must make their way home to have the biggest impact.