Deadline: 27-Jan-23
If you are a school district or community-based organization working to serve children through federal feeding programs, then apply for the No Kid Hungry School Nutrition Grant Opportunity.
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.
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
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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
Funding Information
- Maximum Grant Amount: $10,000
Use of funds
- Funds are intended to support school districts in having the adaptability to meet the changing needs of students and families. Strategies may include:
- 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.
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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.
Criteria
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Applicants will be required to provide the following information:
- Detailed description of grant funding program objectives,
- Information about your current and planned food and nutrition programs for SY22-23.
- School Nutrition Director and Superintendent contact information.
- Historic district-wide enrollment and monthly meals participation for applicable programs
- Detailed budget of anticipated use of funding within the grant period.
- Strategies used to elevate and address the needs of people of color in your community.
For more information, visit No Kid Hungry.