WUNC – North Carolina Public Radio By LISA PHILIP • JUN 11, 2018 More North Carolina teachers have responded to a working conditions survey than ever before. The results reveal 40 percent of participants don’t believe class sizes are conducive to meeting the needs of all students. …The survey showed nearly half of North Carolina […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has recognized 13 summer meal sponsors in North Carolina with the 2017 Turnip the Beet Award. FNS launched Turnip the Beet in 2016 and continued the award program for a second year in 2017. The award program recognizes Summer Meal Programs’ sponsors who are working hard to […]
Greensboro News & Record The Salvation Army of High Point’s social services team recently attended the 2018 North Carolina Child Hunger Leaders Conference, sponsored by No Kid Hungry North Carolina. The one-day conference focused on dealing with childhood hunger for school-age children, especially during the summer, when school is out. The Salvation Army’s social services […]
Salisbury Post By Rebecca Rider SALISBURY — Christmas came early to a dozen Rowan County neighborhoods. Early Thursday morning, buses full of singing, Santa-hatted educators pulled into some of the county’s most in-need communities to deliver toys and food. Students thronged the buses, eagerly pointing out which toy they’d like for Christmas, or joined along […]
New Bern Sun Journal COVE CITY — U.S. Rep. Walter B. Jones walked around the Adelphia CDC Inc. site Wednesday talking with volunteers about their new program to provide children with a lunch six days a week while school is in recess for the summer. Jones was on his annual August tour of District 3 […]
WCTI 12 COVE CITY, Craven County – A summer food program is helping feed children in eastern North Carolina. Rep. Walter Jones made a pit stop at Bryant Chapel AME Zion Church in Cove City on Wednesday, which is one of four sites in Craven County where children can get free meals and enjoy afternoon […]
Jessica Soldavini, MPH, RD, LDN, Graduate Researcher with No Kid Hungry NC, has two new abstracts in the July-August, 2017 supplement of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. Both focus on her child nutrition work in Orange County, NC, during summer 2016. She presented them in poster abstract form earlier this month at the […]
NoKidHungry.org By Riya Rahman Coordinator, Youth Engagement July 21, 2017 Name: Sarah Fatima Where do you go to school? University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Where are you working? Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina & Department of Public Instruction What’s your favorite part about being a Youth Ambassador? I love being able to interact […]
Chapelboro This week’s Hometown Hero is Emma Jenkins-Sullivan, Program Coordinator for Food for the Summer. The Food for the Summer program is dedicated to providing local children with lunches during the summer months. Last year, the Food for the Summer program provided 48,000 lunches to children in the community who rely on school lunches for their […]
Chapelboro Food for the Summer is well into its second year of providing lunches for children in need in the community and according to new program coordinator Emma Jenkins-Sullivan, the program has seen growth in outreach and involvement. “Last year we had over 650 volunteers come out from the community,” said Jenkins-Sullivan, “and we’re hoping […]