
FoodCorps Welcomes Inaugural Cohort of Kindred Fellows
Join our corps! Applications for 2026-2027 are now open. Apply by March 30.
Former Virginia first lady Dorothy McAuliffe was honored Thursday for her work to end childhood hunger at the launch of the First Lady’s Food Lab, a new program and facility at the University of Virginia’s Morven Farm.
School food has come a long way thanks to innovative school food leaders.
A new proposal that would hurt the health of people immigrating to the U.S.; an update on the farm bill; a big win for AmeriCorps; and what’s next for the future of nutrition education funding.
Food Tank is celebrating farm-to-school month by featuring 29 inspiring and innovative farm-to-school programs from around the world; FoodCorps is one of them!
“The many communities I was able to live in expanded the breadth of cultures I celebrate, all of them deeply tied to the people that make them possible.”
Cecily Upton, FoodCorps’ Co-Founder, Senior Vice President, and Chief Strategist, is quoted in this article on the challenges of running school food like a business.
The New Jersey Department of Agriculture visited Texas Avenue School in Atlantic City to highlight a FoodCorps-led, school-wide cafeteria taste test during the 8th annual Jersey Fresh Farm to School Week, Sept. 24-28.
NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 19, 2018—Today, C&S Wholesale Grocers, the largest wholesale grocery supply company in the U.S., joins FoodCorps, a national nonprofit that connects kids to healthy food in schools, to commemorate National Hunger Action Month by announcing the winner and runners-up of the annual Victory Growers essay contest.
“For me, being Latina is about feeling like a part of a greater community and taking pride in who I am.”
“We are trying to build on the good work FoodCorps has done here since 2011 and expand that to a wider geography and wider number of kids,” Norwood said. “We are very pleased and very excited to have Leah here. I think she will make contributions in other ways to the community.”