The No Kid Hungry School Nutrition Grant Opportunity will provide funding to school districts to maximize federal child nutrition programs to ensure children and families have access to healthy meals at school and at home during the school year and/or summer months.
Donor Name:No Kid Hungry Texas
State: Nebraska
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/27/2023
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Details:
No Kid Hungry knows that school districts play an essential role in ensuring students receive nutritious meals to learn, grow, and thrive to reach their full potential. These flexible grants will allow school districts to respond to the growing needs and emerging opportunities to provide meals and resources to kids and families.
Priorities
No Kid Hungry is committed to addressing the systemic and structural health, social, and economic inequities that disproportionately impact historically under-resourced communities. No Kid Hungry will prioritize funding school districts impacting the following communities:
- Communities where 50% or more of the population identifies as Black, Latino, Indigenous Peoples, Asian, Hawaiian Native or Pacific Islander.
- Rural and urban communities where schools/school districts face unique challenges in addressing hunger.
- Communities experiencing extreme economic hardship, determined through multiple data points.
- Communities where members experience intersecting social and environmental inequities.
Funds will be prioritized to support school districts applications with a strong and sustainable plan for maximizing participation in the child nutrition programs and/or increasing federal nutrition program enrollment. Share their Strength’s goal is to support school districts in increasing school meal access and realizing breakfast and lunch participation that matches or exceeds pre-Covid-19 participation
Funding Information
Maximum Grant Amount $10,000
Use of funds
- Ensuring maximum student participation and improving meal quality in federal nutrition programs.
- Promoting awareness of meal availability to students and families, especially for free and reduced-price eligible students.
- Promoting and supporting enrollment of SNAP, WIC and Pandemic-EBT programs as well as the Child Tax Credit.
- Supporting partnerships with other school districts and/or local community-based organizations to increase access to meal programs.
Budget requests may include:
- Meal service supplies and equipment.
- Costs of hiring additional staff positions, increasing hours for existing staff, and providing incentives for staff retention, recruitment and training.
- Technology requests, including point of service machines.
- Cleaning supplies/equipment, including hand washing stations and PPE.
- Program outreach, benefit enrollment assistance (SNAP, WIC, etc.), and marketing costs.
- Transportation costs associated with meal delivery such as refrigerated trucks or fuel.
- Additional expenses as needed.
For more information, visit School Nutrition Grant.