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Fast Company: 7 Lessons In Persuasion From People Who Get Kids To Eat Veggies
Fast Company looks to us for tips on how to get kids to fall in love with healthy food. We’re selling the toughest customers—kids—on a product many of them don’t know they want—veggies.
First Lady Michelle Obama Surprises FoodCorps Member Saxon Henderson’s Garden Class
The Let’s Move! campaign is the epitome of who and what I want to be. I have dreamed of working with this initiative since before I joined FoodCorps. It was this movement that encouraged me to pursue a Master’s in Public Health! Thus, meeting the First Lady was an amazing moment that has made my experience … Continued
Q&A: Serving Up Change in Spanish-Speaking Communities
Wondering what it’s like to serve up change in a Spanish-speaking community? As a latino/latina? Two FoodCorps alumnae join FoodCorps Recruitment Manager Tiffany McClain to discuss what service was like for them.
Inside Philanthropy: FoodCorps Gaining Steam with Philanthropists as Systems Change Solution
With the country standing to lose $1 trillion a year because of diet-related disease by 2030, philanthropists are turning to FoodCorps for a scalable solution. Prominent philanthropy journal Inside Philanthropy talks to FoodCorps donors Kat Taylor and New Profit’s Eliza Greenberg to find out why a program like FoodCorps can be a smart investment in healthy children … Continued
Inside Philanthropy: FoodCorps Gaining Steam with Philanthropists as Systems Change Solution
While controversy about school food filled Congress and cafeterias, philanthropists have been turning to FoodCorps to power systems-change in the way kids eat.
President and First Lady Build School Garden with FoodCorps for MLK Day of Service
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama honored the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by planting the seeds for healthy habits with FoodCorps Service Member Natalie Harris at Leckie Elementary School.
Giving to Food Causes Like FoodCorps Is Increasingly Popular, Writes Chronicle of Philanthropy
Donors and changemakers alike have a growing interest in food issues. The Chronicle of Philanthropy takes a look at FoodCorps and friends.
Service Member Katie Rainwater Talks School Gardens with USDA for Native American Heritage Month
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, FoodCorps North Carolina Service Member Katie Rainwater talks about farm to school in Cherokee Central Schools, a recipient of USDA Farm to School grants.
Service Member Amina and Edible Schoolyard NYC Getting Kids into Garden, Trying New Foods [NY1]
The South Bronx section of New York City may have high obesity rates, but a FoodCorps member and an Edible Schoolyard NYC teacher are helping kids get out and garden, developing a taste for trying new foods.
Christopher Horne Wins Victory Growers Award from C&S Wholesale Grocers
Lowell, MA—the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution—is now fighting hunger and food insecurity with a real food revolution. Hear how from homegrown Christopher Horne, winner of the 2015 Victory Growers Award from C&S Wholesale Grocers.