Introducing Our 2024-2025 Alumni Advocacy Leads
Our Take on New USDA Proposed Changes to School Meals
In January, the USDA proposed some changes to school meal rules that could undermine kids’ health. Here’s where we stand on the proposal.
We’re Answering Your Last-Minute Application Questions
Our recruitment team is holding two open office hours webinars to answer all your last-minute questions about applying to serve with FoodCorps.
How to Get Kids to Eat Their Vegetables in the Lunch Room
In 2009, Curt Ellis co-founded FoodCorps to provide young people with a platform to impact the U.S. food system—starting with schools.
School Breakfast: 4 Things to Know
This National School Breakfast Week, learn how schools around the country feed millions of kids a healthy breakfast every day.
Fresh From the Ranch
Students had the chance to meet Bruce Topham, a cattle rancher who provided free-range, grass-fed beef for lunch in nearly all Klamath County School District schools last week.
Kids Have Been Eating Healthier School Meals, But Adults May Change The Rules
The introduction of a flavor bar, full of spices and sauces, makes lunchtime more delicious for students at some Iowa elementary schools.
We’re Going to SXSW! Tell Us What You Love About School Meals
Next month, FoodCorps will join thousands of educators, entrepreneurs, creatives, and advocates at the SXSW EDU Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas!
Booker, Cornyn Introduce Bill to Fund School Nutrition Programs
The bipartisan Food and Nutrition Education in Schools Act of 2020 would allocate federal funding for projects that connect students to healthy food.
From Seeds to School Lunch
Shasta Elementary School students learn about growing their own food with the help of the the school’s aeroponic planter system.
Cory Booker Teams Up With John Cornyn to Introduce School Nutrition Legislation
School-aged children spend six to seven hours a day in school, yet they receive just five hours of nutritional education on average in a given year.