SNF at ANC: Education, Research, and Scholarship at the Annual National Conference

We’re just over a month away from the biggest school nutrition conference of the year, and the School Nutrition Foundation staff is excited to see YOU in Salt Lake City! We’re going to be bringing you a lot of great stories and photos from Utah, so make sure you’ve connected with SNF on Facebook and…

SNA’s Annual National Conference: Salt Lake City, Utah, July 12-15, 2015

The School Nutrition Association’s Annual National Conference is just around the corner, and we can’t wait to see all of you in Salt Lake City, Utah in July. This year’s theme is “Explore. Discover. Inspire” — and we’ve never been more ready for all three. If you’ve never been to Salt Lake City, we promise…

Support Your School Nutrition Colleagues at SNF’s Celebration of Heroes on Monday, March 2

Will you be attending SNA’s 43rd Annual Legislative Action Conference in March? If so, we hope you will join us on Monday, May 2, 2015, for the School Nutrition Foundation’s Celebration of School Nutrition Heroes. Our 2014 Celebration of School Nutrition Heroes was so successful that SNF is bringing it back with the dual goals…

Join SNA for the 43rd Legislative Action Conference March 1-4, 2015

The premier legislative event of the year is just around the corner—will you be in Washington, D.C. with us? Join the School Nutrition Foundation for the Legislative Action Conference next month to help us shape and define national school nutrition policies. LAC is an incredible opportunity for school nutrition professionals to make their voices heard.…

Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom Head to Arizona for Statewide BIC Summit on Saturday, November 14

Stakeholders will be gathered in Phoenix, Arizona this weekend for the statewide Breakfast-in-the-Classroom summit, to discuss the expansion of school breakfast in Arizona’s high-need schools. It’s an incredible opportunity for school nutrition professionals in Arizona to learn more about breakfast-in-the-classroom, to hear from their peers who have successfully implementing BIC, and to network with state-level…

ANC 2014: A Round-up of Coverage from Boston, MA

This year’s Annual National Conference in Boston was a smashing success, and as always an incredible opportunity to connect with our colleagues from across the country. With a line-up of inspirational speakers, the General Sessions were a huge hit among attendees; education sessions were loaded with insightful information on topics divided into four session tracks:…

Farm to Cafeteria Conference 2014: Overcoming Barriers to Serving Farm Fresh Food in Schools, with The Pew Charitable Trusts

We have had an exciting month here at Beyond Breakfast! First we took a jaunt up to Fairbanks, Alaska, where the UAF Cooperative Extension was kind enough to lend us office space so we could get work done during our travels. The sight of snow falling in April didn’t make the Alaskans very happy, but…

Farm to Cafeteria Conference Session: Synergizing Efforts to Build National Farm and Food Education Curricula

Last week was an incredible week at the National Farm to Cafeteria Conference in Austin, TX; we are so grateful for the opportunity to attend. This year’s theme was “Powering Up!”, and each session was infused with a palpable energy and excitement; when 1100 farm-to-cafeteria enthusiasts get excited, you can feel it! On Wednesday we…

Sneak Peek: SNF at ANC 2013, Kansas City

The Annual National Conference in Kansas City is less than a week away, and the staff at the School Nutrition Foundation are excited to see you there! Whether we are meeting again, or meeting for the first time, we hope you will stop by our booth in the Kansas City Convention Center to say hello. We…

2012 Nutrition + Physical Activity Connection Summit Boosts School Breakfast

This week GENYOUth held their Nutrition + Physical Activity Learning Connection Summit, which brought together players from across the nutrition and physical activity spectrum, to explore the connection that physical activity and nutrition have with learning and behavior. In addition to GENYOUth, the summit partners included National Dairy Council, the National Football League, the American…