No Kid Hungry is committed to ensuring that program sponsors, community partners, and advocates have the resources and tools they need to ensure all kids have the food they need to thrive. We’ve highlighted several current resources below, including resources specifically for New York schools and families.
To access our full national resource library, visit our Center for Best Practices website.
School Meals: Valuable to Kids, Schools & Communities
Learn about how school meals are essential to student health and academic success, and how supporting school meals means supporting the local economy.
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.
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.
Free and Reduced Price 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.
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.
Breakfast After the Bell Myths
Learn about Breakfast After the Bell (BAB) myths, and the facts that disprove them, with this resource. For example, learn how, despite the misconception, BAB does not cause mess or reduce instructional time.
Innovative Breakfast Delivery Options
Learn how each Breakfast After the Bell model is structured, and the percentage increase your school breakfast program can experience by adopting these models.
Breakfast after the Bell: Pre-Implementation Checklist
This resource is a mapped out list of action steps schools can take to prepare for BAB implementation, from creating a school breakfast team to connecting with schools that have already implemented BAB to learn from their experiences.
Breakfast after the Bell: Equipment Tips
Determining the equipment needs of your Breakfast After the Bell program can be a daunting process. Let this resource help guide you in choosing what equipment would be useful for whichever Breakfast After the Bell model you choose.
School Breakfast Promotion Strategies
This resource highlights promotion strategies to build awareness, generate excitement, and ultimately increase school breakfast participation.
Strategies for Increasing Breakfast Participation at Middle and High Schools
This resource provides strategies on how to modify your school breakfast program to engage middle and high school students and get more students eating breakfast.
Understanding Afterschool Snacks and Meals
Confused about the different options and rules for afterschool nutrition programs? Read this!
How Afterschool Meals Reach Kids
This resource traces the path of the funding that supports afterschool meals from Congress to kids’ plates. It also answers common questions about how the program works.
Starting Afterschool Meals FAQs
This short one-pager explains why afterschool programs should offer meals, provides a quick overview of the CACFP At-Risk Afterschool Meals Program requirements, and gives you easy next steps to help you get started.
Supper Makes Cents for Schools
This resource provides an overview of the CACFP At-risk Afterschool Meals Program, its benefits, and how it can be financially sustainable in your district.
Supper Makes Cents for Sponsors
See if serving suppers through the CACFP Afterschool Meals Program make “cents” for your organization.
The Umbrella Model Increases Participation in Afterschool Meals
This quick overview and tips will show you how to implement the Umbrella Model in your school.
Summer Food Service Program Overview
Key facts about the Summer Food Service Program for school districts and community stakeholders considering program sponsorship or other direct involvement in delivery of the program.
An overview of the need for summer meals, basic facts about the program, and ways both individuals and organizations can get involved.
Proactive Planning for Summer Meals Sponsors
Use this guide as a framework for your organization’s step-by-step and month-by-month planning for summer meals.
Tips for Staffing Summer Meals Programs
Advice from summer nutrition heroes who have found innovative ways to ensure that their programs stay afloat in the summertime with passionate and dedicated staff.
Feeding a Crowd – Tips for Congregate Meal Service
This resources provides strategies to make congregate meal service easier for site staff and improve the experience for children and families.
Successful Non-Congregate Meal Service Models For Rural Areas: Implementation Guide
This resource outlines effective models for non-congregate meal service. Use this guide to find strategies and tactics to execute a successful non-congregate summer meals program in your rural community.
Making the Most of a Moment: Non-Congregate Meal Service in Rural Areas
This resource gives an overview of the opportunity, provides important information about non-congregate meals, and outlines ways to support non-congregate meals in your state or region.
Includes a range of ready-made promotional materials to help publicize summer meals in your community.