FoodCorps

FoodCorps New York leverages 16 AmeriCorps leaders to deliver our direct service program, in partnership with schools and other non-profit organizations, to high-need schools across the South Bronx, East and Central Harlem, and North and Central Brooklyn. Our program consists of three areas of service:
(1) Hands-On Learning – Service members teach cooking, gardening, and tasting since kids love foods they have grown and prepared themselves.
(2) Healthy School Meals – Service members support a cafeteria environment that steers students towards the healthiest options and gets them excited to try new healthy foods.
(3) Schoolwide Culture of Health – Service members help the whole school community – everything from the teachers to the hallways to the bake sales – celebrate healthy food.
Building on this foundation of direct impact, FoodCorps pursues systemic strategies that will benefit all of our nation’s 100,000 schools. We pursue shifts in policy and culture that move us toward a future in which all our schools will be healthy places for children to eat, learn and grow.