Introducing Our 2024-2025 Alumni Advocacy Leads
Policy Brief: Proposed Farm Bill Changes Jeopardize Health of Low-Income Families
The proposed cuts have far-reaching impacts. Not only will millions of struggling Americans lose access to these vital nutrition benefits, hundreds of thousands of kids will also lose access to free school meals.
Teaching “Other People’s Children”
Molly, a FoodCorps AmeriCorps service member, sets out to find a beekeeper to speak with her students. Finding someone who represents the community she serves proves a tougher challenge.
In the Bronx, FoodCorps Partners are Changing How Kids Eat
Elizabeth Quintero is a FoodCorps Service Member with Edible Schoolyard NYC. She teaches elementary school kids how to cook healthy meals and the importance of fruits and vegetables.
Serving Close to Home
When I first began applying to FoodCorps, I had my sights set on cities not so near home. I had been part of a great social scene in a college town doing college-y things and I was ready for everything except going back “home.” To me, serving close to home meant I was doing a safe thing. I could feel the eyes of friends and family waiting to see what far away thing my college degree would propel me into next, and going home after college just did not seem to fit that bill.
FoodCorps & Partners Build Urban Farm in Mississippi Park
TUPELO – Local volunteers met Friday at Barnes and Freeman streets to begin rebuilding the Park Hill Community Garden in order to get the surrounding neighborhood and area students involved in the urban farming project.
FoodCorps Opposes SNAP Cuts in Draft 2018 Farm Bill
By proposing significant, harmful cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, Congress is leaving behind large numbers of families across the nation.
WATCH: Toyota Motor Manufacturing Volunteers Help Out at FoodCorps School
By Allie Martin, WCBI TUPELO, MISS. (WCBI) – Volunteers with Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi spent part of their day getting their hands dirty at a Tupelo Elementary School. It’s a hands on lesson for these second graders at Joyner Elementary as they plant beans and squash, at the “Discovery Garden” with help from workers at the … Continued
This School-Run Garden is Helping Nourish an Arizona Community
Moencopi Day School in Tuba City, Arizona, has offered a garden learning program for over 10 years. But it was just last spring that student-grown produce first appeared on this elementary school’s cafeteria lunch line—a Hopi Nation first. FoodCorps is proud to be supported nationally by the Walmart Foundation as together we seek to reach children with high quality, impactful nutrition education that sets kids up for healthy futures.
FoodCorps joins innovators in food systems change
We are thrilled to be part of the 3rd cohort of Food System 6, a business accelerator in San Francisco! We are part of a group of companies and nonprofits selected from hundreds of innovations from around the globe.
Policy Brief: Two Big Wins for Healthy Schools!
We just took an exciting step forward in protecting national service and the health of our nation’s kids. Congress has signed into law a bipartisan spending bill for the 2018 federal fiscal year, and while the bill as a whole is a mixed bag, it does include wins for national service and healthy-food education—progress that your voices helped make happen.