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Ithaca Children’s Garden

January 31, 2009

The Ithaca Children’s Garden (ICG) is an innovative grassroots effort to create exciting, interactive, garden-based experiences for children of all ages. Based in Ithaca, NY, the ICG develops, implements and evaluates a wide range of garden-based education programs for children, teens and the community. The ICG hosts a wide variety of intergenerational programs, blending disciplines […]

Get Moving – Get Healthy <br>New Jersey

January 16, 2009

The mission of Get Moving – Get Healthy New Jersey (GMGH – NJ) is to improve the health of individuals, families and communities. GMGH – NJ encourages a healthy lifestyle – especially healthy eating and physical activity – through educational programs, its website, publications and targeted marketing campaigns. Rutgers Cooperative Extension works in partnership with […]

Wellness Across America

December 31, 2008

Wellness Across America™ launched in 2003 in an effort to better connect school districts and community wellness initiatives to parents and their children. Combining the expertise of health and education professionals with marketing and design experience, the founders of this initiative have developed a comprehensive turn-key program that “markets” wellness in a way that empowers […]

Spatulatta

December 16, 2008

Spatulatta.com is a website where where kids teach kids through video recipes! How cool is that?! Spatulatta presents a fun and compelling website that is helping to foster a whole new generation of young cooks, not only by introducing cooking skills, but also through modeling behavior for using healthy, fresh, basic ingredients. What’s different about […]

Yum-o!’s “If You Can…We Can” Makes More Than One Million Meals

December 9, 2008

Yum-o!’s "If You Can…We Can" food drive collected over 60,000 pounds of food for New York families and will help feed kids nationwide with a "dollar-to-pound" donation!

 

 

Added Value

November 28, 2008

Added Value is a nonprofit organization that promotes the sustainable development of Red Hook, Brooklyn by nurturing a new generation of young leaders. This organization creates opportunities for the youth of South Brooklyn to expand their knowledge base, develop new skills and positively engage with their community through the operation of a socially responsible urban […]

Nourish Interactive

November 14, 2008

Are you looking for an entertaining and interactive way to teach your elementary schooler about food, nutrition and exercise? Nourish Interactive is a free resource for fun nutrition games for kids and interactive activities and nutrition tools for parents and children. Created by nutrition and health care professionals, this nutrition education website gives children the […]

Special Thanks to Red Swan

November 11, 2008

Yum-o! would like to thank Red Swan for their recent generous donation. When Red Swan became aware of the core elements of Yum-o!’s mission – COOK, FEED and FUND – it was clear to the company that they had found a match for their philanthropic giving…

PS 302: The Emerson School of Hospitality

November 1, 2008

Located in Buffalo, NY, PS 302: the Emerson School of Hospitality is a unique public high school learning environment that blends academics, culinary arts and food industry career training. In existence for over 50 years, it began as the brainchild of the late Peter Gust Economou, a world renowned hotelier and former President of the […]

America’s Grow-a-Row

October 15, 2008

New Jersey-based America’s Grow-a-Row’s mission is to help those in need through a volunteer effort of planting, picking and delivering fresh produce via a unique model that: heightens awareness of socio-economic issues, highlights the importance of local farms and inspires volunteers across many generations and skill sets. Inspired by the efforts of a single volunteer […]