
FoodCorps Responds to USDA Cuts to Local Food Spending
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“Education is the gateway to food for so many of us, and Lauren is no exception. Lauren describes the alienation that so many of us feel when we attempt to make a difference in our own diets, by ourselves, and we couldn’t agree more that every individual needs a ‘tribe’ to support them, and the food movement as a whole.”
FoodCorps is out with it’s first BuzzFeed list. Kids say the darndest things about food. Here’s some of the things they say to service members around the nation.
January is Healthy Living Month at Repair the World. They talked to our Communications Director, Jerusha Klemperer, to get to know FoodCorps.
FOODCORPS RECRUITMENT BEGINS
Jan 09, 2014 – Applications Open for Growing Cadre of School Food Changemakers
It’s one thing to make a documentary about food policy and the politics of obesity. It’s another thing to become part of the solution.
By introducing a learning agenda, funders can encourage innovation, drive philanthropic dollars to the best programs, and become better partners to grantees.
USDA announces that USDA and FoodCorps are teaming up!
At public school lunch rooms around the country, it’s now possible to taste dishes like shrimp cocktail (with homemade cocktail sauce), grass-fed burgers with roasted potatoes, and burrito bowls with local veggies and antibiotic-free chicken.
Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix and FoodCorps co-founder and VP of External Affairs Debra Eschmeyer think there is one major thing schools around the country need to improve upon: health education.
FoodCorps co-founder and communications director Jerusha Klemperer addresses the CDC’s recent report on declining childhood obesity rates.