NEW Food Education in the Classroom Microcredential for K-5 educators! Next session: Nov. 2 – Dec. 13.
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.
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.
FoodCorps AmeriCorps service member LaBria Lane talks about her experience serving in Flint, and how serving led her to challenges and growth.
FoodCorps service member Sarah learned that every day after her school’s lunch service, 137 pounds of food is wasted. Watch how she and her students are working to find solutions!
We’re posting two different designs with different messages on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Whichever design has the most likes will be available as a t-shirt next month.
In February, FoodCorps’ Cecily Upton spoke with peers about how to engage kids in the food and agriculture movement.
This month’s policy brief is a call to action on two things: funding for national service and showing support for the Local FARMS Act of 2017, which helps communities prosper through farm to fork investments, helps consumers access fresh food and reauthorizes the Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program.
Every weekday, FoodCorps AmeriCorps service members connect kids to healthy food in schools. But what does that look like, really? Read about Abby’s day teaching kids to grow food in the winter.
FoodCorps stands with all those who are mobilizing to seek solutions to the crisis of gun violence in our nation’s schools.
On Monday, President Trump released his Administration’s budget proposal for federal fiscal year (FY) 2019 which again calls for eliminating our nation’s bipartisan commitment to national service. The President’s budget proposal would eliminate the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), which funds AmeriCorps and other national service programs. However, it is important to remember … Continued