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            Increasing Transparency around WIC Infant Formula Contracts
      Increasing transparency and encouraging competition around WIC formula contracts may seem purely bureaucratic, but it’s actually a vital step toward ensuring babies can get the formula they need.
      12/21/2022
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            Top Box Foods: A Simple and Stress-Free Way to Get Delicious, Nutritious Food in Chicago - Within any Budget
      Top Box Foods is a community-driven non-profit, founded in Chicago in 2012, that creates access to healthy and affordable food for the communities they serve. Customers place orders online or via phone for nutritious food which is offered at prices up to 40% lower than grocery stores. Top Box Foods accepts SNAP benefits as payment for orders, making it an essential resource for households looking to make the most of their SNAP dollars.
      12/07/2022
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            Tribal Food Sovereignty a Focus of NAFDPIR Conference
      Since 1977, tribes and intertribal organizations have been eligible to receive food packages from the USDA. Historically, products in the food packages were not traditional to tribes participating in the program. However, in recent years and in consultation with tribes, more traditional products have been incorporated into food packages.
      11/14/2022
    Omaha Tribe
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            Omaha Tribe of Nebraska WIC Garden Partners with Community for Nutrition Education
      The Omaha Nation WIC program recognizes the importance of incorporating Indigenous foods and traditional cooking practices into the WIC experience to form a holistic approach to nutrition education. Recently, they have taken extra steps to spotlight foods indigenous to their community, as well as dishes and cooking methods traditionally used by the Umónhon people.
      11/09/2022
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            Cultural Relevance in SNAP-Ed: Let’s Get “Real”
      Oklahoma Tribal Engagement Partners collaborates with sovereign tribal nations and tribal organizations throughout Oklahoma to tailor SNAP-Ed programming to meet the needs of Native families. Over time, focus groups have expressed what matters to Natives: the need to be “real.” As organizations look to develop culturally relevant programming, they must step back and listen to what matters to families.
      11/02/2022
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            Come to the Table: Bringing Healthcare and Nutrition Together
      Weeks ago, partners gathered at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health to forge a future without hunger, diet-related diseases, and health disparities. Building on the momentum, USDA recently hosted Come to the Table: USDA’s National Nutrition Security and Healthcare Summit. More than 200 healthcare, federal, and community leaders came together to advance the conference goals of ensuring all Americans have the resources necessary to eat nutritious foods that support good health.
      10/27/2022
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            Food Waste Reduction through Farm to School Programs
      October is Farm to School Month! The USDA Farm to School Program helps schools incorporate local foods into meal programs and supports local food and agriculture education through grants, research, and technical assistance. Less plate waste may be a benefit for schools implementing farm to school.
      10/27/2022
    Farm To School Champions Needed
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            Farm to School Champions Needed! Apply for a Grant Today
      October is Farm to School Month, when USDA joins schools, farms, and community organizations across the country to celebrate the role of farm to school programs in getting healthy, locally grown foods onto children’s trays through child nutrition programs, including school breakfast and lunch.
      10/20/2022
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            Pilot Light: Collaborating with Educators to Teach Students about Food
      With a desire to create healthy relationships between American children and food, a group of chefs created Pilot Light in 2010. This program partners with Pre K–12 teachers to make food education a part of everyday classroom lessons. Through holistic food education, students learn about the cultivation and preparation of food and the connection to our culture, relationships, history, and the environment.
      10/19/2022
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            School Lunch is Nutritious and Delicious
      USDA’s Farm to School Program awards grants to help connect students to the sources of their food through education, taste tests, school gardens, field trips, and local food sourcing for school meals. Schools and other eligible organizations can apply for a Farm to School Grant between now and Jan. 6, 2023.
      10/14/2022
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            USDA Food Assistance Programs at Work in Guam and CNMI
      On August 14-19, a leadership team traveled to Guam and the Commonwealth of Northern Marianna Islands to meet with the territories’ leadership, superintendents and commissioners, that administer USDA food assistance programs. They discussed the challenges of transitioning back to pre-pandemic operations, how USDA could assist, and lessons learned.
      10/12/2022
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            FNS Staff Recall Highlights from White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
      Here’s what FNS staff had to say about the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health and what lies ahead.
      10/05/2022
    White House Hunger, Nutrition & Health
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            The White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health: What it Means to Me
      Today kicks off the second, historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health. It’s been more than 50 years since the last conference, which produced impactful, meaningful changes to improve USDA nutrition assistance programs, including SNAP, WIC and school meals. The conference will work towards ending hunger and reducing diet-related diseases and disparities in the U.S. by 2030.
      09/28/2022
    Liberation Farms
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            Liberation Farms - Food Justice in Action
      Liberation Farms allows families to grow food for themselves. In 2020, support from community partners helped move farm operations onto a single property with room for everyone – and a herd of goats, too!
      09/22/2022
    My Groceries To Go
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            My Groceries to Go
      In May 2022, FNS Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator joined Maryland Department of Aging Deputy Secretary at Sandtown Winchester Senior Center in West Baltimore.
      09/15/2022
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            Keeping WIC Participants with Special Nutritional Needs Safe during the Infant Formula Shortage
      In WIC, specialty formulas are issued with a doctor’s note to participants receiving Food Package III, which is for children with special nutritional needs. These babies have a documented health condition that requires the use of a specialty formula. With specialty formula in short supply, many families have needed an alternative option. WIC state agencies can use a variety of strategies to support participants’ access to specialty formulas.
      09/08/2022
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            Four Ways to Nourish More Children through School Meals
      Over the last two years, we’ve experienced major disruptions in the world of school meals – new realities stemming from pandemic-related school closures and supply chain disruptions which have impacted the cost and availability of food, staff, and supplies. Through it all, our dedicated school nutrition professionals have demonstrated a tireless commitment to ensuring kids remain fed and nourished.
      09/08/2022
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            Nutritionists: The Link to Nutrition Security
      WIC’s food package helps to supplement a household’s food budget, increasing participants’ food resources and helping to tackle food and nutrition insecurity. Nutrition educators are a critical ingredient to helping the USDA promote and elevate nutrition security.
      09/07/2022
    White House Hunger, Nutrition & Health
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            White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health – It is almost here!
      The White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health will be on September 28th – the first of its kind in over 50 years. The conference will focus on nutrition security, which means maintaining consistent and equitable access to healthy, safe and affordable food.
      09/06/2022
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            The Food Basket’s DA BUX Program Prioritizes Nutrition Education for Hawaiʻi’s Children
      This keiki nutrition education effort is an integral service of The Food Basket’s DA BUX Double Up Food Bucks program, a statewide program working to increase the purchase and consumption of Hawai‘i-grown fruits and vegetables by SNAP participants.
      08/31/2022

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