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Blessings in a Backpack is a non-profit organization that feeds school children in the United States who currently are fed during the week on the federally funded Free and Reduced Meal Program and are at risk of going hungry on the weekends. Its mission is to mobilize communities, individuals, and resources to provide food on the weekends for ...
An essential contributor to RIFA's snack backpack program, the 13th annual Pack the Bus event raises food and funds to fight child food insecurity.
The BackPack program in north Florida began in 2008 as an extension of the Kids Cafe. During the school year, eligible children receive breakfast and lunch at school. On weekends, holidays and extended breaks, those children may not eat regularly. On Fridays, food is placed in the child's backpack for that child and other family members. [23]
Through its partnership with the National Association of Educators for Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY), Feed the Children has distributed more than one million Homeless Education and Literacy Program (H.E.L.P.) backpacks containing school supplies, food, and personal care items to at-risk or homeless children enrolled in U.S. public schools.
The third grant, totaling $487,687, was awarded through the Local Food Purchase Assistance Plus Program and will bolster the organization’s Local Food Works Fresh Box Plus Program, which unifies ...
In St. Louis more than 10,000 seats were given away. The Hagar Family Foundation also sponsored "Blessings in a Backpack" at nine schools in St. Louis; the program provided a weekend's worth of healthy food that needy students picked up in backpacks every Friday and returned every Monday. [11] [12]
The New Mexico Economic Development Department announced the projects that will receive Health Food Financing Awards in 2024. The program is administered by the EDD's Food, Hunger and Agricultural ...
The McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program (IFEP) is a food aid program authorized in the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (P.L. 107–171, Sec. 3107, known as the 2002 Farm Bill) which provides for the donation of U.S. agricultural commodities and associated financial and technical assistance to carry out preschool and school feeding programs ...