NEW Food Education in the Classroom Microcredential for K-5 educators! Next session: Sept.7-Oct. 18.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Grant provides $20,000 of funding to expand healthy school programming in Connecticut
By Curt Ellis, FoodCorps CEO & Co-Founder October is National Farm to School Month, a six-year-old celebration of programs around the country working to connect kids to healthy food through cooking, gardening, and lunch trays filled with food from local farms. The organization I’m proud to lead, FoodCorps, plays a role in these efforts, providing … Continued
The Chronicle of Philanthropy profiles FoodCorps and our CEO Curt Ellis, writing about our hunger for results, how we measure our impact, and how we plan to grow to better meet the need.