August 3, 2016

With the summer winding down, it’s a good time to tap into resources that can help you evaluate your school and summer meals programs and learn about ways to improve them. The Food Research Action Center offers free, informative webinars that can help you reach more kids with healthy food. Here are a few we recommend.

Evaluating and Recognizing Quality Summer Nutrition Programs

Thursday, August 4 – 1 p.m.
Evaluating summer nutrition programs and holding them to high standards are important for improving the quality and appeal of meals served and the site environment. Learn from sponsors and anti-hunger advocates ways to evaluate the summer sites in your area, identify high-quality sites, recognize them for their work and identify areas for improvement for the following year.

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Back to School: How to Market Your School Meals Program

Thursday, August 11 -- 3 p.m.
Hear from colleagues about innovative marketing strategies to boost school meals participation. Speakers will share how they have used creative attention-grabbing visuals, social media platforms, school-wide contests and much more to spread the word about school meals.

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Thursday, August 18 – 1pm
Retaining experienced sponsors is imperative to maintaining strong, sustainable afterschool meal programs year after year. On this call, you will hear from state agencies and sponsors about ways to keep experienced sponsors engaged and participating and strategies to support and mentor new sponsors.

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Enjoy the rest of your summer!