No Kid Hungry is committed to addressing the systemic and structural health, social, and economic inequities that disproportionately impact historically under-resourced communities. No Kid Hungry will prioritize funding school districts impacting the following communities:

• Communities where 50% or more of the population identifies as Black, Latino, Indigenous Peoples, Asian, Hawaiian Native or Pacific Islander
• Rural and urban communities where schools/school districts face unique challenges in addressing hunger
• Communities experiencing extreme economic hardship, determined through multiple data points 
• Communities where members experience intersecting social and environmental inequities

Please visit the No Kid Hungry website to learn more about No Kid Hungry’s grantmaking beliefs and values, as well as how No Kid Hungry prioritizes grant funds.

Share Our Strength’s goal is to support school districts in expanding non-congregate options in rural communities. Funds will be prioritized to support applications with a strong and sustainable plan for maximizing participation in the child nutrition programs and federal nutrition program enrollment.

Funds are intended to support school districts in implementing non-congregate meal programs this
summer. Strategies may include:

• Ensuring maximum student participation and improving meal quality in the Summer Food Service
  Program (SFSP) and Seamless Summer Option (SSO)
• Promoting awareness of non-congregate meal availability to students and families, especially for
  free and reduced-price eligible students
• Promoting and supporting enrollment of SNAP, WIC, Pandemic EBT programs as well as the Child
  Tax Credit

Budget requests may include:

• Meal service supplies and equipment.
• Costs of hiring additional staff positions, increasing hours for existing staff, and providing
  incentives for staff retention, recruitment, and training.
• Technology requests, including point-of-service machines.
• Cleaning supplies/equipment, including hand washing stations and PPE.
• Program outreach, benefit enrollment assistance (SNAP, WIC, etc.), and marketing costs.
• Transportation costs associated with meal delivery such as refrigerated trucks or fuel.
• Additional expenses as needed.

Applicants will be required to provide the following information:  

• Detailed description of grant funding program objectives.
• Information about your current and planned food and nutrition programs for Summer 2023.
• School Nutrition Director and Superintendent contact information.
• Historic district-wide enrollment and monthly meals participation for applicable programs.
• Detailed budget of anticipated use of funding within the grant period.
• Strategies used to elevate and address the needs of people of color in your community

To Get Started on Your Application:

1. Visit the No Kid Hungry Grants Portal at https://nokidhungry.force.com. Please do not use Internet
   Explorer or Microsoft Edge when registering or working within the portal.
2. To create a new account, click “New User.” If you have previously used the Portal, log into your
   account with those existing credentials.
3. Click “Start a New Application” on the Home page of the No Kid Hungry Grants Portal.
4. Input the following access code to gain access to the application: OHSchoolNutrition2023
5. Click “Start Application” to begin.
6. Be sure to input all required answers and save frequently as you are inputting information.
7. Once all questions are completed, click “Review Application.”
8. Download your application as a PDF and then click “Submit.”

Sample Application:

To view a sample application, please click here.