How to Advocate to Your School Board for Nourishing Food
Announcing the 2017 Alumni Service Leadership Award Honorees
What do making kimchi, leading a farm camp and promoting farm-to-school regionally have in common? They are all ways to bring FoodCorps’ values to your work, and they’re the impressive careers and passions of our three inaugural William K. Bowes Service Leadership Award honorees: Lauren Rhoades ‘15, Krizl Soriano ‘16 and Rachel Spencer ‘12. Our … Continued
Family Cooking Night Gets Kids & Families in the Kitchen at the Citrus School
By Dani Anguiano, Chico Enterprise-Record Gavin Witt, 8, loves vegetables. He likes spinach and radishes, but kale is his favorite. He knows how to grow the leafy green vegetable, how to cook it in meals and prepare it for a salad. “I just love it,”the Citrus School third-grader said. Witt has learned all about growing … Continued
FoodCorps responds to relaxation of school lunch guidelines
Yesterday, the USDA announced a relaxation of healthy school guidelines, slowing the timeline for schools to comply with certain regulations and loosening the standards for others. We are extremely disappointed to see yesterday’s action to relax science-based nutrition standards for school meals.
FoodCorps and No Kid Hungry partner to improve students’ access to school breakfast
FoodCorps is excited to announce an exciting new partnership with Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign that awards over $40,000 to FoodCorps schools to implement projects to improve students’ access to breakfast served at school.
USDA’s Kumar Chandran Joins FoodCorps as Policy Director
FoodCorps announced today that Kumar Chandran has joined the organization to lead the policy team for the rapidly growing nonprofit. He will lead the organization’s newly opened Washington D.C. office.
Worth Fighting For
The President’s Budget proposes eliminating AmeriCorps, the national service program that fuels FoodCorps’ ability to improve children’s health in eighteen states around the country. Here’s what you can do.
FoodCorps Co-Founder & VP Cecily Upton Joins Congresswoman Pingree’s Farm Bill Forum
Cecily Upton, a FoodCorps co-founder as well as our Vice President of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, joined Congresswoman Chellie Pingree for a public forum on the Farm Bill. After holding a Health Care Town Hall on Sunday evening, Congresswoman Pingree convened another public forum early Monday morning in Portland—this one focusing on hunger and nutrition … Continued
Portland Press Herald: FoodCorps is doing its part to get kids to eat their vegetables
Bite by bite, small victories are changing school kids’ eating habits in Maine, one of the original FoodCorps states. In Waldoboro, Maine, every taste counts.
Pam Koch of Teachers College Tells NYC Food Policy Center about FoodCorps Findings
When the NYC Food Policy Center asked Teachers College researcher Pam Koch about her findings on nutrition education, she told them about her evaluation of FoodCorps. We have been working on an evaluation with FoodCorps. We conducted a cross sectional study with 20 schools from across the country. These schools had a wide range of programming … Continued
In Memory: William K. Bowes Jr., 1926-2016
The FoodCorps family is mourning the loss of William K. “Bill” Bowes Jr., a passionate philanthropic leader who has had an enormous impact on the work we do.