Ultraprocessed Foods 101: What to Know About UPFs
November 2018 Policy Brief
This month’s update is all about how the midterms will influence our policy goals, including the farm bill and the movement to eliminate taxation on the AmeriCorps Education Award.
October 2018 Policy Update
A new proposal that would hurt the health of people immigrating to the U.S.; an update on the farm bill; a big win for AmeriCorps; and what’s next for the future of nutrition education funding.
Growing Up Across Cultures
“The many communities I was able to live in expanded the breadth of cultures I celebrate, all of them deeply tied to the people that make them possible.”
Serving My Latine Heritage in the Brooklyn Community
“For me, being Latina is about feeling like a part of a greater community and taking pride in who I am.”
The Power of Nutrition Education
“Thanks to a particularly fierce Boston winter, our school year was dotted with snow days. Each time a cancellation was announced, I noticed students’ distress, rather than glee. ‘Their families rely on school meals,’ a teacher told me. ‘They might not know if they get to eat tomorrow.'” Ellie Doyle was a runner-up in the 2018 FoodCorps Victory Growers Award “for a compelling account of hunger and food insecurity,” winning a $1,000 prize for her service site.
Alleviating Hunger Through Community
“No matter how healthy the food on their lunch plate is, for students to feel nourished, they must be in a space where they feel as though they are welcome and understood.” Zoe Flavin was a runner-up in the 2018 FoodCorps Victory Growers Award “for a compelling account of hunger and food insecurity,” winning a $1,000 prize for her service site.
Meet this year’s Alumni Council
Each year we invite new members to join our Alumni Council to bring fresh perspectives and passions to the group. They are here to support all alumni in launching initiatives they’d like to start, in lifting their voices to FoodCorps’ National team, and in advancing their career goals post-FoodCorps. Meet the Council members below and … Continued
A New “Chapter” for FoodCorps Lessons
As a FoodCorps AmeriCorps service member, I got pretty creative in the name of connecting kids to healthy food in school. I donned vegetable costumes in the cafeteria, danced around in the garden in front of a live audience of 30 children, and hauled five-gallon buckets of compost through the hallways, to name a few.
Looking Back on a Year of List-Making
Years before I became a busy FoodCorps AmeriCorps service member, I was already a dedicated journaler. My seminal journal entries usually began with a dramatic “Dear Diary…” and continued with thorough retellings of my second-grade days. A decade and a half later, my journals are more like anchors that ground me within the daily whirl.
Investing in Future School Food Leaders
This June, FoodCorps brought together 20 aspiring school food service leaders to help them explore careers in school food, build their network, and get hands-on experience working in school food. They traveled from all over the country to learn from leaders in the field. Vanika Jethwa CT ’17, an alum who joined us from Keene, NH, shares reflections on her experience at the training.