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A Letter from Rachael: Let’s Get America’s Kids Eating Healthy
In an open letter featured in the September issue of her magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Rach underscored how we all have a responsibility for the health of America’s kids, both at school and at home…
Eat Well to Be Well: Rachael’s Op-Ed Published in Newspapers Nationwide
Speaking out on behalf of children across America, Rachael’s recent Op-Ed submission makes the case for funding child nutrition programs and has inspired readers nationwide to take action for child nutrition…
Take Action: Child Nutrition and Better School Food
Rachael is taking a stand for child nutrition. Learn how you can join her in ensuring access to nutritious food for your kids and for all children across the country!
Sharing the Harvest YMCA Community Farm
The Sharing the Harvest YMCA Community Farm in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts is is a collaborative effort between the YMCA Southcoast and the Hunger Commission of Southeastern Massachusetts (a program of the United Way of Greater New Bedford). Beginning with a one acre parcel in 2006 that yielded nearly 6,000 pounds of produce, the farm now […]
Let’s Go! 5-2-1-0<br>Goes to School
5-2-1-0 Goes to School is part of an overarching program called Let’s Go!, which promotes a healthy lifestyle for kids from birth to age 18 by partnering with others across six sectors: early childhood, schools, communities, workplace, after-school and healthcare. While the Let’s Go! organization is based in Portland, Maine, 5-2-1-0 Goes to School has […]
Elwood’s Little Einsteins
Elwood’s Little Einsteins is a small preschool in Long Island, NY that is doing big things when it comes to learning about food and cooking. With a curriculum focused on hands-on learning, cooking has been a core part of their program for several years. “Children are learning math skills such as weighing and measuring, as […]
Patterson Library Story Time Garden and Healthy Living Series
In an effort to help their community learn to live a healthier lifestyle, the Patterson Library in Putnam County, NY, started their “Story Time Garden” in June 2009. With the help of a local resident and greenhouse, they constructed a charming garden, complete with an enchanting garden gate. It quickly became the focal point of […]
Cooking as a Way of Life: Chefs Move to Schools
America’s chefs are stepping up to be a part of the solution to address the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation. To lend her support, Rachael joined the First Lady and hundreds of chefs on the South Lawn of the White House to launch the Chefs Move to Schools initiative, part of the First Lady’s Let’s Move! campaign…
Nourishing NYC’s Junior Chef Program
Nourishing NYC is a community food program located in East Harlem that seeks to provide nutrition for all. Their mission is to alleviate the strong correlation between low-income status and poor dietary health by providing nutritious meals and educational programming in a safe and caring environment where all are welcome. Among their many and varied […]
Rachael Ray and Members of Congress Speak About Importance of Bipartisan Legislation to Improve Child Nutrition
(Washington, DC) — Daytime talk show host and author Rachael Ray joined a bipartisan group of Members of Congress to speak about the importance of the new Improving Nutrition for America’s Children Act of 2010. The legislation, which reauthorizes the Child Nutrition Act, will dramatically improve the quality of meals children eat both in and out of school and in child care settings, support community efforts to reduce childhood hunger and, for the first time, establish nutrition standards for all foods sold in schools. Nationally, one-third of children are either overweight or at risk of becoming overweight.