An effective partnership of anti-hunger, health, community and education organizations, the New Jersey Departments of Agriculture and Education and national partners, the campaign has resulted in tens of thousands more New Jersey children receiving healthy food every single day.
We help communities tap into federal dollars to feed hungry children through school breakfast, summer meals and afterschool meals.
Since 2010, the year after the campaign's launch, the number of children receiving school breakfast has soared 65 percent.
In just two years, the number of children receiving healthy food in the summer jumped 27 percent.
A growing number of New Jersey communities are serving afterschool suppers and snacks.
Federal reimbursements for school breakfast, summer and afterschool meals has grown to about $180 million -- tens of millions more than when the campaign started.
Good data drives good decisions. Find district-level data for school breakfast.
Fact sheets, data, videos, success stories, testimonials, how-tos. It’s all here to help you convince school and community leaders that feeding kids is not only necessary, it’s do-able.
Find resources from state and national organizations to help advocate and implement all three child nutrition programs.
New Jersey’s most impoverished schools are reaching less than half of their low-income students with federally-funded school breakfast, mainly because many continue to serve breakfast
A new source of funding and technical assistance is now available to help summer meals and afterschool sponsors, sites and vendors serve up more meals
New state law promises improvement New Jersey is heading in the wrong direction when it comes to providing school breakfast to low-income students, many of
A new state law requires high-poverty districts to serve breakfast during the regular school day, promising to give tens of thousands more NJ kids a healthy
High-poverty schools must participate in the federal Summer Food Service Program, under a new state law. On May 31, 2018, Governor Phil Murphy signed a
A growing number of New Jersey children are receiving snacks and suppers throuigh this program, contributing to their health and academic achievement, but thousands who
