We sat down recently with dietitian, school breakfast supporter, and longtime friend of SNF, Elizabeth Campbell, RD, to discuss her work on a series of recent articles that appeared in the September 2013 issue of the Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. The four papers discuss the findings and implications of research done by Campbell…
In a perfect world, every child would sit down at the dinner table on Thanksgiving Day and enjoy a bountiful meal, shared with friends and family. As we well know, we do not live in a perfect world; we live, rather, in a country where one in five children is experiencing food insecurity—that’s about sixteen…
With Memorial Day weekend behind us, many school districts are in the final stretch before summer vacation begins. As our school nutrition professionals know, many students that they serve rely on school meals; they are, for many, the only meals school children can rely on. Every year we see a growing need for summer feeding…
A guest post by School Nutrition Foundation Senior Program Manager, Paula Zdanowicz, MPH It’s a fact: not only is breakfast considered the most important meal of the day, but eating breakfast at school helps children learn. Many school districts participate in the federally-funded School Breakfast program, but participation levels are low. More than 25 million…
Our friends at the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC)—in partnership with the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance—will be hosting the Arkansas Afterschool Meals Summit on Thursday, November 29, 2012 in Little Rock, AR. The Arkansas Out of School Network and Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families are also co-hosting the summit; register online today! The…
Last week we sat down with Josh Wachs, Chief Strategy Officer at Share Our Strength, to talk about hunger in America. Josh shared important information about the No Kid Hungry campaign, as well as his thoughts on the importance of school breakfast (and school meals in general), as well as strategies for bridging the food…
This week’s blog post was written by Food Security & Nutrition Consultant Elizabeth Giovannetti Campbell. September is Hunger Action Month, and fresh back from my maternity leave, I am working on a Breakfast in the Classroom project, which aims to eliminate barriers to breakfast service for low-income children. When deciding to go back to work,…
The warm glow of the holiday season is upon us, and many of us are already looking forward to gathering around the dinner table with family and friends. The act of sharing a meal is an important, meaningful ritual shared across cultures; it is a universal human experience, something we have in common with people…
While childhood obesity continues to emerge as one of the major stories in our national conversation, here at Beyond Breakfast we want to make sure the issue of childhood hunger stays on the forefront as well. We already know that breakfast in the classroom is a powerful tool that can be used to fight childhood…
The Walmart Foundation continues to exhibit generosity and foresight in the fight against childhood hunger with their latest breakfast initiative. The American Association of School Administrators (AASA) has announced a $2.25 million program, funded by the Walmart Foundation, which will increase the number of needy children receiving breakfast at school. The AASA program will seek…