Tag Archives: familes
The Seed
A few years ago, I started this foundation who gets kids excited about healthy food local chefs and I create new and exciting lunch menus for schools, then we talk with the students and encourage them to try healthy food. … Continue reading
Posted in Kitchen Adventures, Networking
Tagged brown bag lunces, Chef Tregaye, Childhood memories, community, comunity garden, congress, cooking with kids, debt, EBT, familes, farmers market, food bank, Food waste, free meals, gardening, health and wellness, hot meals, hungry, kids, kindness, organic, poverty, produce, public school system, social work, ugly
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Blessing in a Backpack
Most hungry kids can get breakfast and lunch through their schools, but what do they do on weekends? This organization sends kids home with backpacks filled with food for their families to eat at home. – Blessing in a Backpack
One Check Away…
Years ago, I remember reading American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto by Sudhir Venkatesh The book recently called to me (yes, I believe books pick you, not the other way around). I pulled it off my academic … Continue reading
Posted in Reading
Tagged advocacy, book club, book review, cash support, clothing, familes, Government, housing, lifestyle, low-income families, Op Ed, politics, poverty, rent, school supplies, social work, social worker, Sudhir Venkatesh, TANF, tough times, transportation costs, utilities, welfare
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