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Food banks play a critical role in expanding the reach of the federally funded child nutrition programs to meet the growing need, including during COVID-19 and beyond. With vast networks and programmatic expertise, food banks are natural leaders in promoting and providing summer and afterschool meals and working with program providers and partners to serve meals at sites across the country.

This archived brief from 2005 highlights timeliness incentives for SNAP applications.

The Food Research & Action Center and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities conducted a rapid assessment project to document the development and implementation of P-EBT benefits covering the spring of 2020. This report, by Kone Consulting, identifies the various approaches states took to implement P-EBT in the spring and summer of 2020, as well as key preliminary lessons state officials and other stakeholders have learned. This information will help states to strengthen implementation efforts when Congress extends this option for the FY2020-2021 school year.

This guide is designed to help increase school breakfast participation in secondary schools. It provides strategies and best practices for the successful implementation of breakfast after the bell programs that were based on conversations with principals across the country.

Launch page to open interactive map and tables for 2020 summer nutrition reports (with data on summer programs in July 2019)

The Food Research & Action Center and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities conducted a rapid assessment project to document the development and implementation of P-EBT benefits covering the spring of 2020.

FRAC’s report looks at food insecurity in the wake of COVID-19.

P-EBT map of state programs.

The Pandemic Child Hunger Prevention Act would provide free breakfast and lunch to all students attending schools that participate in the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) during the 2020–2021 school year.

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), a federal nutrition program, is widely recognized as an important safeguard for protecting and improving the health and nutrition of low-income mothers and children.

The critical role that breakfast plays in
children’s overall well-being does not end when the
school year does.

FRAC has developed a communications toolkit to help you spread the word about the benefits of summer nutrition programs.

This communications toolkit for the Southern Poverty Report 2020 highlights key findings and ways to share the word!

Poverty, Hunger, Health, and the Federal Nutrition Programs: A Profile of the Southern Region – Interactive Chart Book

The need to expand the reach of the Summer
Nutrition Programs is more important than ever as
communities continue to respond to COVID-19’s
impacts on food security, education, and the economy.