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Overview

School Breakfast Grants (Kellogg Partnership)

Funder: Action for Healthy Kids with funding from Kellogg Company and Kellogg Company Fund

Geographic Scope: National

Focus Areas:

  • Piloting or expanding National School Breakfast Programs

  • Increasing access to breakfast for more students

  • Helping students have nutritious start to school day

  • Equipment purchases and program costs

  • Alternative breakfast models: breakfast in classroom, grab 'n go breakfast

  • Overcoming barriers to breakfast access and participation
  • Program Impact (as of 2017-2018):

  • 40 school districts and more than 175 schools funded

  • Since 2009 partnership: 1,744 schools supported

  • Over 23 million new breakfasts served

  • 153,770 hungry/undernourished students reached

  • Average 39% increase in breakfast participation
  • Research-Based Benefits:

  • Children who start day with breakfast do better in school

  • Breakfast kick-starts metabolism, energy, and focus for learning

  • Addresses gap: less than half of lunch participants also participate in breakfast (as of 2016)
  • Kellogg's Breakfasts for Better Days Signature Cause:

  • Global program fighting hunger and feeding potential

  • Over 1.9 billion servings of cereal and snacks provided worldwide
  • How to Apply

    Application Process

    To Apply:
    1. School districts and schools submit applications
    2. Applications reviewed for eligibility and program alignment
    3. Recipients notified
    4. Technical support provided throughout grant period

    Support Provided:

  • Funding and technical support from AFHK

  • Assistance implementing grants and National School Breakfast program

  • Resources and guidance for alternative breakfast models
  • Resources:

  • Complete list of funded schools available at ActionforHealthyKids.org/Kellogg

  • Information on Kellogg's Breakfasts for Better Days at OpenforBreakfast.com
  • Focus Areas & Funding Uses

    Fields of Work

    k-12-schoolsnutritionfood-securityschool-health

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