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</i>Spriggles</i>
The Spriggles book series is a fun way to help children ages 3-8 increase their awareness and knowledge of health, nutrition and exercise. A combination of “spirit” and “giggles,” Spriggles weaves innovative stories with imaginative illustrations and playful rhymes such as “Keep on tryin’, Lion” and “Stay in shape, Ape.” It’s fresh, fun, and unique! […]
Yum-o!’s Director Featured in Culinary Types: Teaching Kids to Appreciate Food
Writer T.W. Barritt recently featured Yum-o!’s Director, Andrew Kaplan, in his Culinary Types blog, which chronicles his day-to-day encounters with all things edible and the extraordinary people who grow, prepare, study, celebrate and eat food. In Barritt’s interview with Andrew, he captures the inspiration and vision for Yum-o! and his commitment to the heart of Yum-o!’s mission: getting kids involved in the kitchen…
Yum-o!’s “If You Can…We Can!” Food Drive Makes More than 160,000 Meals
For the second year in a row, Yum-o! enlisted the help of the Rachael Ray studio audience to support one of our core work areas: feeding hungry kids and raising awareness about the issue of hunger in America.
<i>Cooking’s Cool</i>
Mrs. Sheff is a magical teacher who loves to cook with her students each day. She makes her debut in Cooking’s Cool, a unique collection of books designed to teach children that cooking and eating healthy is COOL! Teachers and parents can enjoy reading these delightful tales with their students and children and then cook […]
Backpacks for Kids
In the small town of Clyde, TX, where most of the population live at or below the poverty level, the Backpacks for Kids program is making a difference. The program identifies food insecure kids with the help of their school system and discreetly delivers a backpack of food full of nutritious, kid-friendly, nonperishable items to […]
The Youth Becoming Healthy Project
Pamela Green Jackson formed the Youth Becoming Healthy Project to educate school students about the importance of eating healthy and exercising. Initially starting out by providing newspaper supplements as part of the Newspapers in Education program, YBH now has fitness centers in five Georgia middle schools. The program converts vacant classrooms into fitness centers, and […]
Brian Furrer’s Food Drive
After volunteering with his mother at their local food bank, 10-year-old Brian Furrer from Lincoln, CA saw how quickly the food was running out and decided to organize a week-long food drive to help restock the shelves. Brian brought collection boxes from classroom to classroom at his school and personally counted all the cans his […]
KidsGardening
KidsGardening, a core program of the National Gardening Association, has been using gardening as a vehicle for encouraging children to make better food choices for over 25 years! Their programs augment traditional classroom studies with experiential learning, building a love of nature, stimulating social interaction, facilitating cultural exchange and promoting healthy eating habits. The experience […]
Katie Stagliano Dreams of<br>No Hungry Children
When Katie Stagliano grew a 40 pound cabbage (yes, you read that right!), she didn’t know that she was beginning to cultivate a dream as well. When the 10-year-old from Summerville, SC realized how much cabbage was in her garden, she decided to donate it to needy families by working with Fields to Families, a […]
Rachael Ray, Yum-o! and NYC SchoolFood Promote Healthy Food Choices to New York City Students
(New York, NY) — In an effort to highlight the continuous strides that the NYC Department of Education’s Office of SchoolFood is making towards promoting healthy food choices to New York City students and to encourage students and their families to develop healthy relationships with food and cooking, daytime host and best-selling author Rachael Ray, the Office of SchoolFood and the Yum-o! organization, Rachael Ray’s nonprofit organization, have partnered to create an exciting, delicious and nutritious lunch menu to be served in more than 1,600 New York City public schools, across all five boroughs. On October 26, 2009, Ray was joined at the announcement of the partnership at PS89/IS289 in Manhattan by Deputy Mayor Dennis M. Walcott, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Deputy Chancellor Kathleen Grimm, State Senator Daniel L. Squadron, Chief Executive for SchoolFood Eric Goldstein, Chef Jorge Collazo and Principals Veronica Najjar of PS 89 and Ellen Foote of IS 289.