Cooking Up Community: Nutrition Education in Emergency Food Programs
This guide gathers resources and information about innovative nutrition education programming by organizations around the country. These models can serve as examples and inspiration to create new programming or as sources for collaboration and ideas. This comprehensive, 88 page capacity…
Good Food on a Tight Budget
This guide, produced by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) in collaboration with Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters program, is designed to inform readers on how to eat healthy while keeping grocery costs low. For many families, stretching their dollars to…
Healthy Food Healthy Communities
This publication is written in both English and Spanish and provides informational recipes specific to the various fruits and vegetables that can be found in New Mexico. The publication is aimed at informing the public of the nutritional benefits of…
Stepping Up to the Plate: Healthy food access and the anti-hunger community’s response
Stepping Up to the Plate: Healthy food access and the anti-hunger community’s response provides tools and strategies to help board members, executive directors, program staff and other stakeholders in the anti-hunger field integrate healthy food access into their organization’s work….
WHY’s Top 10 Ways to Create Empowerment and Self-Reliance
WHY’s Top 10 Ways to Create Empowerment and Self-Reliance is a brief list of steps to help struggling people move toward independence. This guide recommends using government resources, taking nutrition and language classes, involvement in advocacy, job training, youth development, and…
FRAC’s Afterschool Meals Guide
FRAC’s Afterschool Meals Guide is a resource for afterschool programs, CACFP sponsors, state agencies, and anti-hunger advocates. The guide has three parts. First, it explains eligibility and provides important information about how to participate in Afterschool Meals. Second, it offers strategies…
Let’s Move Cities and Towns — Toolkit for Local Officials
Let’s Move Cities and Towns — Toolkit for Local Officials is designed to help local officials in launching their own Let’s Move! campaign in their city, town or county. There are a variety of activities and resources provided in this…
Serving Up Justice: How to Design an Emergency Feeding Program and Build Community Food Security
Serving Up Justice: How to Design an Emergency Feeding Program and Build Community Food Security serves as a manual and resource tool to establish emergency food distribution programs. It can also be used to improve or expand existing programs. The first…
Let’s Move! – Kids Take Action
Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative focuses broadly on childhood obesity. Access to healthy and affordable food is one of its key components. Five simple steps kids can take to improve their own nutrition are to move everyday, to try a…
Let’s Move! – Schools Take Action
Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative focuses broadly on childhood obesity. Access to healthy and affordable food is one of its key components. Five simple steps schools can take to address child nutrition are included in this guide. These include creating…