Salisbury Post CHINA GROVE — The Salisbury Rowan Association of Realtors has donated $2,000 to the Rowan-Salisbury Schools Summer Meals Program. The donation was the result of a June golf tournament. “We’re really grateful,” said Lisa Altmann, RSS director of school nutrition. The money will support the Summer Meals Program and ‘iRead, iFeed” initiative, which […]
INDY Week The city of Durham recently received a $125,000 grant to help address childhood hunger as part of a nationwide initiative known as Cities Combating Hunger Through After-school and Summer Meal Programs (CHAMPS). According to press release from the city, the grant will expand local summer and after-school meal sites, and will serve an […]
NC Health News Every day in Charlotte, an air-conditioned school activity bus full of free lunches turns into a church parking lot. Within minutes, 60 children cross the street from a mobile home park with their friends and neighbors to receive a meal. “It was just miraculous to see,” said Tamara Baker, communications and project […]
Congressman David Price joined No Kid Hungry NC for a visit to a summer meals site in Raleigh on Monday, July 9. Price spoke with families, handed out plates with healthy messages to kids, took part in a nutrition education activity, and talked with the meal site’s managers. Summer meals for kids in North Carolina […]
WCNC CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Atrium Health’s University Hospital in North Charlotte is now the first hospital in the state to offer free meals to children who are out of school for the summer. The hospital, located at 8800 North Tryon Street, will serve kids under 18 years of age free breakfast and lunch from Monday […]
NC Department of Public Instruction N.C. Summer Nutrition Programs mascot, “Ray F. Sun,” and State Superintendent Mark Johnson visited the General Assembly today to share information about summer meals for students. The Department of Public Instruction’s School Nutrition Services section works with local schools and organizations to offer summer nutrition programs, providing children and teens […]
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 […]