
After Federal Cuts to Nutrition Support, Kids Will Pay the Price
FoodCorps applauds the announcement and looks forward to helping advance these important initiatives.
The support of our philanthropic partners makes this work possible.
White House highlights FoodCorps’ commitment to 50 million students nationwide catalyzed by support from MacKenzie Scott, Newman’s Own Foundation, Inclusive Capital Partners Foundation and Walmart Foundation.
“President Biden’s National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health marks a clear step forward toward a more nourishing future for our nation’s students.”
White House invites recent FoodCorps service member Phoebe Wong to share farm-to-school experience on panel.
“We saw in the early days of COVID just how critical food is in our lives. We saw the long lines at the food bank, those streams of cars lined up waiting to collect boxes of food,” said Curt Ellis, CEO and co-founder of FoodCorps.
This summer, the House Education and Labor Committee advanced the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act—a much anticipated Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill.
The proposed CNR legislation provides funding and resources for key priorities that help support healthy kids and schools.
FoodCorps has released a new report outlining key policy recommendations from education and school nutrition professionals ahead of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.
FoodCorps looks to participate in the upcoming White House Conference on Nutrition, Hunger, and Health by highlighting policies that support our children through food education.