Many needy California schoolchildren not taking part in subsidized summer...
Education budget cuts are blamed for 15% drop in participation in summer meal programs. 0 By Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times...
View ArticleVerona's Laning Avenue School helps hungry children nationwide
Students from Laning Avenue Elementary School in display some of the two dozen backpacks that were sent to Blessings in a Backpack. Peter Dupin of 's UPS store joins the students after reducing...
View ArticleCharter School Free Meals: California Bill Would Extend Free Meal Program To...
Story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Bernice Yeung At the Blue Oak School in Chico, where 60 percent of the charter school's student body comes from low-income households, it’s a source of...
View ArticleOregon Community Schools Model Staying Power
Portland, Ore. For Lynch View Elementary, a K-5 school in suburban Portland, the school day doesn't end when the bell rings at 2:22 p.m. As one of 64 "community schools" in Multnomah County, the...
View ArticleFinding, feeding hungry children is Food 4 Kids’ mission
When most kids love to skip classes, what would compel a child with a 102-degree fever to go to school? Cathy Dugan, a school social worker, learned the answer one day: Hunger. Dugan keeps a sharp eye...
View ArticleKids won't go hungry through winter break
HOLIDAY -- Students concerned about where their next meal will come from during the winter break from school won't have to worry Dec. 26 through Jan. 7. Gulfside Elementary School will be providing...
View ArticleCommunity center aims to teach, feed unemployed residents
How might you entice 400 people to show up at your place to teach them basic job-hunting skills? Feed them. On Saturday, the Meadows Park Community Center, 1943 South El Paso Ave., hopes a breakfast...
View ArticleSchool Lunch Menu: Restaurant Worthy Food Served To Students In Japan
Posted: January 27, 2013 Tokyo, Japan – A school lunch in Japan is seen with national pride, as the meals are healthy and appetizing, rarely frozen, and made from scratch. Students are given food...
View ArticleDonations aim to help hungry kids over winter break
On Christmas Eve, Broad Acres Elementary School’s acting principal, Luis San Sebastian, stood by as citizens drove up to the Silver Spring school loaded with gifts for his students’ needy families....
View ArticleMore St. Louis-area students rely on free, reduced-price school lunches
As students sit down to lunch in school cafeterias across the St. Louis area, a growing number are dining for free or at reduced prices. For the first time in some school districts, that marker of...
View ArticleMore students rely on free, reduced-price school lunches
As students sit down to lunch in school cafeterias across the St. Louis area, a growing number are dining for free or at reduced prices. For the first time in some school districts, that marker of...
View ArticleExclusive: Half of teachers forced to feed pupils going hungry at home
Heads and doctors want needy children to get free breakfast as Guardian survey reveals upsurge in demand Children, parents and teachers at Hill Mead primary school in Brixton, south London, tell...
View ArticleAttorney Charles Boyk Features Feed Lucas County Children as One of the...
Feed Lucas County Children is one of 15 charities participating in The Chuck Boyk Challenge. Toledo, Ohio (PRWEB) January 08, 2013 The Chuck Boyk Challenge is a charity event that is ongoing until...
View ArticleSchool meal programs are defense against child hunger
When he was campaigning for re-election in 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt took time in Boston to talk about the country's school lunch program. FDR said, "Milk does those children more good than...
View ArticleAgencies feeding the hungry struggle to keep food on their shelves
Sherry Love, a cook at the Kansas City Rescue Mission, makes a mean pot of soup, so it's a good thing the shelter's refrigerator is full of ham bones. "We'll pull those out and she'll make ham and...
View ArticleFood bank in high school helps feed Ind. students
Students in an impoverished eastern Indiana city will have help in getting enough to eat, thanks to a new food pantry. Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana set up the pantry at Connersville High School to...
View ArticleSchool breaks put extra strain on struggling families
Thousands of students in the Clark County School District rely on their schools for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Extended breaks from school, such as the two weeks at the end of last month, can be...
View ArticleMore Ohio kids living in poverty, lunch program shows
A record 840,000-plus students are in the subsidized school-lunch program. Many suburbs have logged big increases. Nearly half of Ohio’s schoolchildren qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches...
View ArticleLine Grows Long for Free Meals at U.S. Schools
Millions of American schoolchildren are receiving free or low-cost meals for the first time as their parents, many once solidly middle class, have lost jobs or homes during the economic crisis,...
View ArticleTeachers see more hungry students
Three out of five public school teachers in Maryland say they have students who regularly come to school hungry because they are not getting enough to eat at home, according to a new survey. The...
View ArticleBlessings in a Backpack helps feed a need in Hernando County
Tony MarreroTampa Bay Times In Print: Sunday, February 19, 2012 SPRING HILL As they make their way down the sidewalk on the way home from Spring Hill Elementary each Friday, the Brinson girls look...
View ArticleTexas struggles to feed children during the summer
Texas children enrolled in federally subsidized lunch programs during the school year are missing from summer meal sites. Only nine out of every 100 Texas children received summer meals, according to...
View ArticleOhio has 840,000 students getting school lunch aid
COLUMBUS: More than 840,000 students are getting subsidized meals at school this year, setting a record, according to new data from the Ohio Department of Education. That means nearly half of Ohio...
View ArticleSchool-based food banks are on the rise across St. Louis
The three social workers responsible for students in Jennings used to spend hours trying to find food for kids and their families. So administrators set out to create their own school food pantry,...
View ArticleAlmost half of Fayette students rely on free or reduced-cost school meals
Fayette County's public schools are closing in on a milestone that no one is happy about. District figures show that, as of January, 49.4 percent of students enrolled in the Fayette County Public...
View ArticleSurvey: Teachers report students 'regularly' come to school hungry
When a handful of students consistently showed up for school lethargic and unfocused for their day-opening reading lesson, second-grade teacher Robin Sutherland discreetly posed a question: Did you...
View ArticleNumbers of hungry seem to grow
GLOUCESTER —— They are older widows on fixed incomes, people who lost their jobs when the oil refinery in Yorktown shut down and people who can't find enough steady work. Across the county, churches...
View ArticleMetro Detroit schools see surge in number of kids living in poverty
More of the children attending schools in metro Detroit are living in poverty, a trend pronounced not just in urban areas but also in some of the tri-county's wealthier areas. Between 2006 and 2010 --...
View ArticleThe Pongo Fund Pet Food Bank Celebrates 2nd Anniversary Having Served More...
Dogs and cats are cherished members of the family, but when resources are scarce, people face tough decisions. The Pongo Fund provides quality pet food to those in need, helping reduce animal shelter...
View ArticleStudents persevere to feed hungry in Oregon despite Occupy Portland protesters
The Occupy Wall Street protesters like to claim they're speaking for the so-called "99 percent." In an ironic twist, Occupy Portland protesters almost left thousands of needy Oregonians hungry for the...
View ArticleWhen school ends, meals do too; Saratoga Springs feeds hungry kids
SARATOGA SPRINGS - It was the last day of school until September and they were jumping for joy. Lake Avenue Elementary School students celebrated their rite of passage Wednesday afternoon. But some...
View ArticlePGE Foundation awards 55 grants totaling more than $376K (PGE - Portland...
Oct. 19, 2012 PGE Foundation awards 55 grants totaling more than $376K Top priority given to education and academic support programs PORTLAND, Ore. -In the second and third quarters of 2012, the PGE...
View ArticleFeeding hungry kids helps them focus on school
How to help The Star is partnering with Harvesters to host a virtual food drive at feedingkckids.harvesters.org. All money raised will go to Harvesters' BackSnack program for kids. If you'd like, you...
View ArticleCharities, schools struggle to feed OR hungry kids
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — SnowCap Community Charities used to receive much of its food pantry supply from school food drives. Now it sends more food to schools than it takes in. Lynch Meadows Elementary...
View ArticleWorking from scratch, Japanese schools keep lunches healthy, simple
TOKYO -- In Japan, school lunch means a regular meal, not one that harms your health. The food is grown locally and almost never frozen. There's no mystery in front of the meat. From time to time,...
View ArticleFact Sheet on 'Feed the Kids' Bill
Monday, 10 December 2012, 2:14 pm Press Release: Mana Party FEED THE KIDS A Fact Sheet on the Education (Breakfast and Lunch Programmes in Schools) Amendment Bill What does the Bill do? The Bill seeks...
View ArticleOur hungry kids: Hungry pupils 'need taxpayer help'
What you can do Sponsor a hungry child for 50c a day. (to help provide the basics they're missing out on.) kidscan.org.nz Donate to Salvation Army food banks. salvationarmy.org.nz Donate to Auckland...
View ArticleSchool pantry feeds students who would otherwise go hungry at home
A lot of recent attention has been paid to what students are eating in their school cafeterias, but some say what's worse is what some are not eating when they're away from school - nothing. Experts...
View ArticleMore Children in Greece Are Going Hungry
As an elementary-school principal, Leonidas Nikas is used to seeing children play, laugh and dream about the future. But recently he has seen something altogether different, something he thought was...
View ArticleKids Count survey: Ore. 32nd in overall well-being
An annual ranking of the well-being of American children shows Oregon's kids suffer from poverty, underemployment and high housing costs. The annual Kids Count survey from the Annie E. Casey...
View ArticleOre. trails nation in high school grads in college
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Nearly 40 percent of Oregon high school graduates do not attend college, a number that puts the state behind the national average and far behind the state's goal of getting 80...
View ArticleOnly 61 percent of Oregon grads enter college
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Despite an ambitious college goal, Oregon remains behind the national average for high school students who enter higher education and well short of its own expectation. Only one...
View ArticleCuts in food stamps worry Oregon's poor
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Carly Poe knows $20 might not seem like a lot of money to some folks. A twenty would go pretty fast at a trip to the movies, after all. But for Poe, 33, and her 14-year-old son,...
View ArticleNorth Port school opens food pantry
NORTH PORT - Shannon Rowland wondered if something was wrong when she noticed the boy scrounging for snacks in the office. She knew his background. He was one of four siblings, raised by a single...
View ArticleNEW: North Port school opens food pantry
NORTH PORT - Shannon Rowland wondered if something was wrong when she noticed the boy scrounging for snacks in the office. She knew his background. He was one of four siblings, raised by a single...
View ArticleMy Story of Childhood Hunger: From Hungry to Lawyer
A large part of my childhood was spent battling hunger, food insecurity, poverty and sometimes homelessness. When people ask me how growing up in those circumstances impacted my life, I tell them that...
View ArticleOregonians rush to arm themselves with handguns
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The number of concealed handgun licenses has jumped by more than 20 percent in Oregon during the first six months of this year. Just over 200,000 Oregonians had a license as of...
View ArticleUJA Federation of New York and Catholic Charities Launch Second Joint Feeding...
Jewish and Catholic communities launched initiative with Thanksgiving and Hanukkah food packaging project. New York, NY (PRWEB) November 25, 2013 UJA-Federation of New York and Catholic Charities of...
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