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Press ContactNathan GarciaFoodCorpsnathan.garcia@foodcorps.org FoodCorps Kindred
FoodCorps Kindred Fellows Convene in Washington, D.C., to Advocate for School Meals and Food Education
This week, Senate Agriculture Committee Chair John Boozman released a Farm Bill
FoodCorps' Statement on Chairman Boozman's Farm Bill Draft
When President Obama shouted out Hannah Moore, a current FoodCorps member with Cumberland
When President Obama Calls Your Name: Meet Hannah Moore, FoodCorps Member
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Parents and FoodCorps service members have to work together; it can take up to a
6 Ways to Engage Parents to Grow Healthy Families
Natasha Hegmann and
A Farm With A Focus on Community
By Lisa Held for Civil Eats United States Representative Chellie Pingree (D-Maine)
A New Bill Aims to Fix Food Waste in Schools
By Sarah Miller for Nonprofit Quarterly Through their Reimagining School Cafeterias initiative,
A Partnership Engages Schoolchildren to Design Their Own Healthy Meals
After Federal Cuts to Nutrition Support, Kids Will Pay the Price July 3, 2025—Today,
After Federal Cuts to Nutrition Support, Kids Will Pay the Price
AmeriCorps Announces Planning Support for New Program: FoodCorps
Mentorship Matters
Our alumni and service members often tell us they are looking for professional mentors and advisors, so we created the Peer Advisor Network (PAN) to make it easy for them to find people with shared interests and skills from right within the alumni and service member community. In this post, we highlight the importance of mentorship through … <a href="https://foodcorps.org/mentorship-matters/">Continued</a>
Curt Ellis Tells Blue Sky Funders Forum about Power of Food in Environmental Literacy
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 … <a href="https://foodcorps.org/curt-ellis-food-environmental-literacy/">Continued</a>
Chronicle of Philanthropy Profiles FoodCorps’ Hunger for Results
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.
Real Food and Real Skills to Combat Hunger
The first few weeks of school, we got to harvest vegetables from the garden to make the snacks. Not all of the kids were fans of the food we made together, but one girl ate everything, and then seconds and thirds. She would even eat the stems of the parsley and peel of the lemon … <a href="https://foodcorps.org/food-skills-hunger/">Continued</a>
A Hunger for the Motor City
Hunger is everywhere in Detroit, including in the classroom. So where does food come from? How do we help?