40% of the people we serve annually are children.
At the core of our Children’s Health Initiative, Feed the Future is a series of sequential, innovative programs designed to foster nutritional independence and health in children, from the womb to high school graduation.
Feed the Future gives us the opportunity to educate and empower our children to better look after their own nutritional health. These programs provide produce, food literacy training and physical activities while building a community around food.
Kids Farmers Market and Healthy School Pantry have won national “Hunger’s Hope” awards for the best children’s nutrition program of the year from Feeding America. We are proud of this accomplishment and honored that these programs are being adopted by other food banks across the country.