NC TEACHER OF THE YEAR: “North Carolina should provide school meals to all students. It did for me.”
In an editorial published in the Greensboro News & Record, 2022 NC Teacher of the Year Leah Carper, from Guilford County Schools, […]
Author: Carolina Hunger Initiative
ARTICLES: School Meal Debt in NC
Two new stories about the rising school meal debt in North Carolina, including new reporting about debt in individual school districts, and […]
EDITORIAL: Making All School Lunches Free in NC Will Cut Hunger, Stigma and Paperwork
The News & Observer has a new opinion piece about School Meals for All NC. Expanding student access to meals beyond what […]
ARTICLES: School Meals for All NC Day of Action
On Thursday, March 9, 2023, the School Meals for All NC coalition held a Day of Action to educate legislators about the […]
ARTICLES: School Meal Debt and the “Hunger Cliff”
Rising school meal debt has been a major issue of the 2022-23 school year. The end of February 2023 brings an additional […]
ARTICLES: 2023 NC Child Hunger Leaders Conference
On Wednesday, February 22, 2023, Carolina Hunger Initiative hosted the 12th annual NC Child Hunger Leaders Conference. See some of the media […]
Summer Meal Delivery Options Provided for in 2023 Omnibus “Paves the Way” for Meals-to-You Expansion — Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty
Our partners at the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty (BCHP) recently released a statement applauding Congress including “two significant provisions in […]
ARTICLE: Survey: A Third of Families Say Rising Food Costs Leads to Kids Not Eating Enough
via WRAL News Inflated prices for all goods is starting to sink in and people are feeling it on the bottom line […]
ARTICLE: Two N.C. School Districts Will Launch ‘Big Ideas’ to Increase Access to School Meals
via EducationNC.org: Following the expiration of a pandemic-era federal waiver that allowed K-12 schools to provide school meals free of charge to all students, a […]
2022: Our Year in Review
This has been another challenging year for child nutrition programs, from supply chain and staffing issues to shifting emergency rules at the federal […]