Resource Library

What’s at a summer meals site?

Free nutritious meals and snacks
Educational activities
Opportunities to play
Adult supervision
Safe environment

Quote of the Day: Hunger doesn’t take a vacation. Summer meals matter. – FRAC President Jim Weill

3M children ate summer meals in July 2016.

A report on the reach of summer breakfast and a companion piece to FRAC’s Summer Nutrition Status Report: Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation, released on June 13, which focuses on summer lunch participation.

Summer Nutrition Program resources to share with your constituent services staff in order to locate sites in your District and help ensure more children have access to nutritious meals this summer

Describes promising practices that can help increase the reach of breakfast during the summer, including serving breakfast later in the morning, providing breakfast on weekends, promoting breakfast participation, incorporating activities for children, and maximizing economies of scale.

This report measures the reach of the Summer Nutrition Programs in July 2016, nationally and in each state. Published June 2017.

Answers to questions regarding the Summer Nutrition Programs.

Summer programs that achieved gold and silver standards of excellence.

Gold, Silver and Bronze criteria in chart form.

Includes Gold, Silver and Bronze model menus for hot and cold foods.

Includes information on: Ways to Use the Summer Food Standards; Levels of Excellence; Evaluate Sites; Acknowledge Quality Sites; Build on Success: Take Summer Food Sites to the Next Level; Levels of Excellence checklists.

Summer Nutrition Programs State Mandate Chart

September 2016

Geared to help summer food sponsors who are working to improve the quality of meals they serve to children, this guide outlines three key strategies to improve meal quality: strengthening contract language, improving vendor communication, and increasing competition on a bid. It also contains tips to help anti-hunger advocates work with sponsors on this important challenge.