ENACT Day
May 16, 2012California Food Policy Advocates co-sponsored the state’s annual ENACT Day (Nutrition and Activity Day). This is a day where over 100 non-profits, volunteers, advocates and community...
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Advocacy Day
May 17, 2012California Food Policy Advocates in collaboration with many of our state partners brought together over 400 people from across the state to advocate for minimizing cuts to the state budget...
View ArticleNew program offers breakfast in L.A. classrooms
March 30, 2012The joint effort of L.A. Unified and a fundraising group is aimed at boosting the share of students who eat the meal at school from 29% to 70%. Research has linked breakfast to higher...
View ArticleLAUSD To Launch Free ‘Food For Thought’ Breakfast Program Next Year
March 30, 2012LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The new “Food For Thought” breakfast program will provide free meals to students at 267 schools within the Los Angeles Unified School District next year.Mayor Antonio...
View ArticleSome school districts try to fill growing summer nutrition gap
June 22, 2012Ed Source - School’s out, but Riverside Unified’s food services department is not closing down. “Hunger doesn’t take a vacation, and neither do we,” said Rodney Taylor, director of...
View ArticleSchools Offer Free Summer Meals, but Few Kids Eat Them
July 25, 2012Sacremento BeeAt lunchtime at Cambridge Elementary School, you'd never know that the last day of school was more than a month ago. For one month this summer, Monday through Friday, more...
View ArticleLAUSD Rolls Out New Batch of Healthy Menus
August 12, 2012Daily NewsBreakfast in the classroom, more appetizing lunch choices, eco-friendly meal trays and higher cafeteria prices will greet Los Angeles Unified students when they return to...
View ArticleCensus says California poverty rate up
September 24, 2012The Union Democrat - About 335,000 more Californians were living below the poverty level in 2011 than the previous year, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released...
View ArticleChef Mary Sue Milliken works with Share Our Strength to help prevent...
December 15, 2012Current - Chef Mary Sue Milliken, of “Top Chef Masters,” talks about her efforts with Share Our Strength to help prevent childhood hunger, including working with schools to promote...
View ArticleLAUSD collaborates with parents to improve new nutritious breakfast program
November 27, 2012 Boyle Heights Beat - It’s just before 7 a.m. and the cafeteria women at Euclid Avenue Elementary are rapidly working to open boxes filled with crackers, fruit, plastic cereal bowls...
View ArticleSchools Work to Feed Hungry Students
November 18, 2012 CBS NewsOnline - An estimated 16 million American children under the age of 18 are currently considered food-insecure with limited or uncertain access to nutrients. Some cities are...
View ArticleKids support, but don’t always eat, new school lunches
October 25, 2012 WhyITNow.org - Joanna Lin/California Watch Students pick up food during lunch at Harte Elementary School in Long Beach. In a taste test of new lunch items last year at the Long Beach...
View ArticleIn California, Students and Parents Prefer the New School Lunches
October 18, 2012 New America Media - By a ratio of 3 to 1, public school students in California say the new healthy school meals being served up in California’s K-12 public schools are better than what...
View ArticleMore than 1 in 5 California children live in poverty, study finds
January 7, 2013The Los Angeles Times - As California diversifies, it will face serious economic struggles if it fails to pay attention to widespread childhood poverty, according to a report released...
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