OFS offered the class on a trail basis to low-income residents participating in a transitional housing program in the city of St. Louis. Participants learned basic nutrition information, participated in a cooking lesson, and they received the ingredients for the recipe to take home to try on their own. Jimmy and Andrea solicited monetary and in-kind donations, wrote grants, and recruited volunteers to teach the class. The Hunger Fellows also selected the location for the class and worked with the volunteer instructors to refine the curriculum. The Feeding Kids Partnership allows members of the St. Paul Second Harvest Food Bank to receive free snacks for their after-school programming.
Partners can order snacks as frequently and infrequently as they want.
The Food Bank encourages the Partners to take advantage of their fresh fruit and veggies, pint-sized milk, sliced lunch meat, and granola bars, so that kids can do their homework, play, and engage in enrichment activities with a full stomach. The Hunger Fellows administered the program, recruited and surveyed partners, and conducted a day-long training for interested organizations.