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            Turnip the Beet on Summer Meals
      It’s award season! USDA is excited to highlight summer meal sponsors who go above and beyond to ensure children receive nutritious, appetizing meals.
      03/22/2024
    Critical Need to Increase Food Security in Rural Alaska
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            Critical Need to Increase Food Security in Rural Alaska
      A key part of our work to end hunger, improve nutrition, increase physical activity, and reduce diet-related diseases is focusing on historically under-served areas, like rural and Tribal communities. Alaska, for instance, faces unique challenges.
      09/20/2023
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            Connecting Kids To Meals: A Valued Resource For Kids In Northwest Ohio
      Connecting Kids to Meals, known as CKM, is a nonprofit agency in Toledo, Ohio, that provides healthy meals at no cost to at-risk kids in low-income and underserved areas of Northwest Ohio. With a nearly 20-year history of feeding hungry kids, the critical work of CKM becomes more important every day.
      05/22/2023
    Summer Meals Champions2
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            USDA Celebrates 2022 Summer Meals Champions and Looks Ahead to Summer 2023
      USDA’s summer meal programs – the Summer Food Service Program and Seamless Summer Option – reduce food and nutrition insecurity and help ensure kids are healthy and ready to learn when they return to school in the fall.
      02/28/2023
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            FNS Programs at Work in the San Francisco Bay Area
      In early August, Deputy Under Secretary Stacy Dean and Administrator Cindy Long travelled to San Francisco for meetings and events related to the work FNS does to support local communities - visiting programs that have an impact on addressing hunger.
      08/23/2022
    Harvesting Health All Summer Long
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            Harvesting Health All Summer Long
      The FNS Turnip the Beet awards recognize outstanding summer meal program sponsors for going above and beyond, ensuring children receive high quality meals in a fun, safe and healthy learning environment when school is out.
      07/06/2022
    Supporting Local Farmers to Feed Children in Hawaii
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            Supporting Local Farmers to Feed Children in Hawaii
      We applaud the food service professionals and community partners who have utilized the flexibilities and guidance that USDA has provided to come up with creative ways to get food to the children who need it. In Hawaii, one community college professional found a way to pull resources together for a common cause.
      05/21/2020
    Innovation and Collaboration Bring Summer Meals to Children in Rural Texas
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            Innovation and Collaboration Bring Summer Meals to Children in Rural Texas
      Children’s nutritional needs do not take a summer break. This summer, FNS partnered with the Texas Department of Agriculture and Baylor University’s Texas Hunger Initiative to help keep Texas children in several low-income rural areas fed during the summer through a summer meals demonstration project.
      08/15/2019
    FNS Fills the Summer Meal Gap
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            FNS Fills the Summer Meal Gap in Rural Areas
      Most kids look forward to the end of school and the start of summer vacation, but for some it can also mean the loss of the regular meals they rely on during the school year. USDA’s summer meal programs, including the Summer Food Service Program and the Seamless Summer Option, are there to help families ensure children have access to nutritious meals and snacks that help them learn and grow during the summer months.
      06/21/2019
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            Just Announced ‘Turnip the Beet’ Awards Recognize High-Quality Summer Meals
      As school years draw to a close and summer breaks begin, USDA is pleased to announce the third annual Turnip the Beet awardees. These awards recognize outstanding summer meal program sponsors who distinguished themselves with high quality meals that are appetizing, appealing, and wholesome.
      06/18/2019
    USDA Kicks Off Summer Meals
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            Across Country, USDA Kicks Off Summer Meals
      The school year is out and summer meals are in! Around the country, places like schools, recreation centers, parks, churches, and libraries are serving free, nutritious summer meals to kids up to 18 years old through USDA’s Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). SFSP was designed to help low-income students during the summer months who aren’t receiving free or reduced-price school meals to continue to have access to meals and snacks.
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