#GivingTuesday is here, and we could not be more excited. The response to the School Nutrition Association’s fundraising campaign to benefit the Annual Fund has been overwhelming—thank you everyone who has donated, and participated in our ongoing #GivingTuesday event. And now for the BIG news! All donations processed online through Network for Good TODAY, Tuesday,…
“Hunger doesn’t take a holiday.” It’s a phrase school nutrition professionals hear—and use—often. As the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays approach, our thoughts turn to those children who rely on school meals for their nutrition. Millions of American children—one in five—struggles with food insecurity, and that need does not go away when school isn’t in session.…
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…
Wow! If you were one of the 180 attendees on Wednesday’s “Coalition Building: How to Build & Strengthen Partnerships within your School Community” Webinar call, I have to believe you were as completely blown away as I was by the information our experts shared with us on how they have successfully created partnerships to help…
One of our partners in Breakfast in the Classroom is the Food Research and Action Center. FRAC is the leading national nonprofit organization working in the area of hunger and malnutrition in the United States today. In addition to our upcoming webinar on coalition building, we wanted to let you know that FRAC also has…
As we move forward with the implementation of the Breakfast in the Classroom pilot program, staying current on all things school food related is important. To that end we have created a blog roll featuring some of our favorite go-to blogs. (You can find our list in the sidebar on the right hand side of…
Feeding kids breakfast – it’s a no brainer, right? The practical implications of feeding students for optimal performance in school moves beyond the immediate issue of giving hungry kids breakfast and affects how kids are learning and interacting for the rest of their day; kids who eat breakfast perform better academically and exhibit fewer behavioral…
