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Healthy Meals Incentives for Small & Rural Schools

CHEF ANN FOUNDATION

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Overview

Healthy Meals Incentives for Small & Rural Schools

Program Overview: As part of a cooperative agreement to develop and implement the USDA Food and Nutrition Service's Healthy Meals Incentives Initiative, Action for Healthy Kids and its partners RMC Health and Chef Ann Foundation have awarded grants to small and/or rural School Food Authorities to improve the nutritional quality of school meals.

Funding Source: USDA Food and Nutrition Service Healthy Meals Incentives Initiative

Partners: Action for Healthy Kids, RMC Health, Chef Ann Foundation

Award Results:

  • Total awarded: Nearly $30 million in grants

  • Number of grantees: 264 small and/or rural School Food Authorities

  • Geographic scope: 44 states and the District of Columbia
  • Eligible Applicants: Small and/or rural School Food Authorities

    Chef Ann Foundation's Role: Providing technical assistance to grantees, including:

  • Facilitating innovative staff training programs

  • Modernizing operations

  • Advancing efforts to support school food professionals and healthy school meals
  • Focus Areas:

  • Improving the nutritional quality of school meals

  • Supporting small and rural schools
  • Focus Areas & Funding Uses

    Fields of Work

    k-12-schoolsnutritionfood-security

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