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City Slicker Farms
City Slicker Farms, located in Oakland, California, was founded in 2001 by a group of West Oakland neighbors. The organization empowers community members to work together to produce healthy food by creating organic, sustainable, high-yield urban farms and backyard gardens. Photo: Children at City Slicker Farms helped plant Seeds of Change organic seeds to provide […]
Yum-o! Teams with Alliance for a Healthier Generation to Provide Healthy and Delicious Recipes for School Cafeterias Across the Country
(New York, NY) — Yum-o! and Rachael have teamed up with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation to provide nutritious and delicious recipes that are appropriate for school settings. The recipes will be available for free to every school across the country, reaching more than 30 million students. The Alliance for a Healthier Generation is a nonprofit organization founded by the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation working to combat childhood obesity.
The Matthew Project
Serving families in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, The Matthew Project seeks to address the problem of food insecurity and food insecurity with hunger by providing one hot meal every evening to those who find themselves in need. It is the simplicity of The Matthew Project that makes it is such a success. Volunteers make a meal that […]
CATCH Healthy Habits
CATCH Healthy Habits is a unique intergenerational physical activity and nutrition program that benefits two generations: kids and adults age 50-plus. The program combats obesity by engaging adults as mentors to teach healthy lifelong habits to kids in grades K-5. Created by research teams from the University of California at San Diego, University of Minnesota, […]
Madeline Empowers Others with empowerME
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s empowerME campaign is a by kids, for kids movement that’s inspiring all kids to make healthy behavior changes and to become leaders and advocates for healthy eating and physical activity. 10-year-old Madeline embodies the movement’s goals to engage, educate and activate. When she was just two years old, her […]
Menu for Healthy Kids
The Culinary Institute of America’s Menu for Healthy Kids mission is to influence positive change in children’s health by creating smarter school foodservice operations and improving access to healthier and more flavorful school meals. Obesity currently afflicts over 20 million children and teenagers; 95% of these children receive one to two meals at school. Since […]
DooF
DooF (“food” spelled backwards) uses the power of multi-media entertainment, education and live events to explore food from every possible perspective: backwards, forwards, sideways, upside-down and inside-out. DooF teaches kids the amazing journey of food from its source to their table, with an interactive, imaginative, sometimes messy and always hands-on experience. DooF makes good food […]
Nourish
Nourish is an educational initiative designed to open a meaningful conversation about food and sustainability, particularly in schools and communities. To inform and inspire the largest number of people, Nourish combines PBS television, curriculum resources, website tools and information, short films and teacher and youth seminars. With a distinctly positive vision, Nourish celebrates both food […]
Yum-o! Director Attends Healthy Flavors, Healthy Kids Kick-off Summit
In May 2011, Yum-o!’s director Andrew Kaplan was honored to attend a kick-off summit held on the campus of the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in San Antonio, TX on behalf of Rachael Ray and Yum-o!. Called Healthy Flavors, Healthy Kids, this two-day gathering of chefs, foodservice directors, child advocates and others launched a national initiative to improve the health of children and young people through food education, culinary strategy and flavor insight.
The Hungry Bears Program
Elizabeth Marion, a fifth grade student at Jones Intermediate School in Mt. Airy, NC, was recently recognized by the National Association for Gifted Children with the state’s Nicholas Green Distinguished Student Award for her efforts to help ensure that her fellow students have access to nutritious food to eat on the weekends. What started as […]