Upper Elementary

Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center at Lake County Community Development Center

The Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center is a service site for the national FoodCorps organization. A FoodCorps service member is partnered at MMFEC. and collaborates with teachers to integrate food and nutrition education into their classrooms, with school and community members to start school gardens and garden-based education programs, and with food service directors and producers to get more local, healthy foods into schools.

National Center for Appropriate Technology & Butte Public School District

 This is a service site with the national program FoodCorps.

The Farm to School program serves students in the Butte Public School District. Students receive nutrition education lessons, after school food and garden programming, food tasting activities in the school cafeteria, and much more! The Farm to School program is also working with the Butte School Lunch program to source and serve more fresh, local foods in the lunchroom.

Lockwood Boys and Girls Club

The Lockwood Clubhouse is open to all Lockwood youth Kindergarten through 8th grade.

The FoodCorps Service Member at the Lockwood Boys and Girls Club in Billings, MT, is teaching hands-on food, nutrition, and garden education with elementary school students. The service member is helping to expand the garden at the Lockwood Boys and Girls Club and having some awesome culinary adventures with the food that they grow. 
 

The Mamá Tingó Garden

 The Mamá Tingó garden is a garden classroom at The Mariposa Center for Girls on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. The Mariposa Center for Girls offers an alternative education program to adolescent girls in Cabarete, empowering and educating them with the vision to end generational poverty. Environmental education is an integral part of our holistic girls education program.

Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Gloucester County

 Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension helps the diverse population of New Jersey adapt to a rapidly changing society and improve their lives and communities through an educational process that uses science based knowledge. Through science-based educational programs, Rutgers Cooperative Extension truly enhances the quality of life for residents of New Jersey and brings the wealth of knowledge of the state university to local communities.

 

New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids- Camden

 New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids (NJPHK) is a statewide program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) with technical assistance and direction provided by the New Jersey YMCA State Alliance. The goal of the program is to convene, connect and empower community partnerships across the state to implement environment and policy changing strategies that prevent childhood obesity. 

 

New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids is proud to partner with the following organizations:

Isles, Inc

 Founded in 1981, Isles, Inc. is a community development and environmental organization based in Trenton, New Jersey. With a mission to foster self-reliant families and healthy, sustainable communities, we design and develop effective services that support this mission and share what we learn with others who can make a difference.

Greater Brunswick Charter School

 Greater Brunswick Charter School is a free, independent public school founded by area parents and educators in 1998. Located in a newly renovated building in New Brunswick, NJ, our school welcomes a diverse population from New Brunswick, Highland Park, and Edison, as well as other districts around the state.

PowerSnack

PowerSnack is a free afterschool meal available to children at Veterans' Memorial Elementary School in Gloucester, MA. In partnership with the school food service department, the daily meal provides an entree, milk and child-size salad bar from which students may select the fruits and vegetables they would like to put on their meal trays. The program allows children to learn how to make healthy choices and try new foods.

Winston County Self Help Cooperative

 WCSHC's purpose is to help small farmers purchase and sell in bulk with a goal of creating sustainability in rural communities by connecting with USDA and other organizations to provide services in a timely manner.

WCSHC has teamed up with FoodCorps MS to help connect kids in Winston County to real food and where it comes from and help them grow up healthy.

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