School Meals Design Guide
This online guide from No Kid Hungry features ready-to-use activities and tools to help make school meal programs more student-centered. Within it are assets like a survey question library, QR code generator, customizable logos and more to help you engage students and caregivers.
School Meal Application Toolkit
Hunger Solutions New York and No Kid Hungry New York have created this toolkit to help school districts communicate with families about the importance of completing free and reduced-price (F/RP) applications or alternative income forms.
School Meals Marketing Toolkit
This toolkit was created to help you get the word out to students and families about school meals. It includes both ready to use and customizable social media assets to help you quickly and easily communicate with students and families. The graphics and sample language can also be used in newsletters, on flyers or in emails.
Strategies for Finding Success with CEP
This resource outlines strategies designed to help you maximize the benefits of CEP by increasing your Identified Student Percentage (ISP), managing program costs, generating revenue with savvy business practices, and improving meal participation rates.
CEP Communications Toolkit
This toolkit has downloadable and customized social media graphics, banners, posters and more for you to use to spread the word about free school meals for all students in your district.
SNAP Outreach in Schools Toolkit
This toolkit helps get the word out about SNAP in school settings. It features customizable scripts, website blurbs, webpage buttons, outreach materials, social media posts and graphics in English, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Tagalog, and Vietnamese.
SNAP in Schools Toolkit
This toolkit highlights the importance of increasing SNAP enrollment in schools to support families and boost school meal access. It provides strategies for outreach, such as sharing resources with families, using multilingual and accessible materials, and engaging school staff and community programs.
Student Feedback Toolkit for School Meals
This toolkit identifies ways to gather student input and recommendations to help increase student engagement in school meals and improve program participation.
This resource traces the path of the funding that supports school breakfast and lunch from Congress to cafeteria. It also answers common questions that advocates and elected officials have about how the programs work.
Universal Free Meals: Comparing Funding Options to Create Hunger-Free Schools
Compare three options for providing universal free school meals: the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), Provision 2, and non-pricing.