FoodCorps explained

FoodCorps, Inc.
Type:Nonprofit organization
Founded Date:2010
Key People:Curt Ellis – Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Debra Eschmeyer – Co-Founder
Num Members:205 AmeriCorps service members
Homepage:http://www.foodcorps.org

FoodCorps is an American non-profit organization whose mission is to work with communities to "connect kids to healthy food in school."[1] FoodCorps places service members in limited-resource communities where they spend a year working with teachers and students to establish farm to school programs, incorporate nutrition education into school curricula, plant school gardens, and engage in other initiatives to improve school food.[2] Like Teach for America and Habitat for Humanity, FoodCorps is a grantee of AmeriCorps.[3]

History

FoodCorps was founded in 2010 by six people:

Two of the six cofounders, Ellis and Upton, still work with the organization as chief executive officer and VP of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, respectively.[8]

Function

FoodCorps’ mission statement is: "Together with communities, FoodCorps serves to connect kids to healthy food in school."[9]

FoodCorps works by placing service members on year-long service stints at community-based Service Sites, where they work in low income public schools to improve nutrition. Statewide Host Sites oversee the Service Sites within each state in which FoodCorps operates.[10]

FoodCorps service members are individuals generally from age 18 to age 30, with backgrounds in agriculture, nutrition, health and food policy. They are paid a modest stipend ($15,000, health insurance, student loan forbearance, and a $5,500 Education Award)[11] to perform a year of food and nutrition-related service inside local schools. The applicants are screened through a competitive vetting process (in FoodCorps’ first year, 1,229 candidates applied for 50 spots).[12] The first FoodCorps class has 50 members. FoodCorps states that it hopes to have 1,000 Service Members in all 50 states by 2020.[13]

Service sites are community-based organizations that offer direct service opportunities in the fields of food and nutrition education, school gardens, and local procurement for school food systems. These are the locations to which service members report for day-to-day service. There are 41 service sites.[14]

Host sites are FoodCorps’ statewide partners which oversee the service sites. They are generally non-profit organizations, educational institutions or public agencies. In most cases, host sites determine the communities and non-profit organizations with which Members will work, and help create training and orientation opportunities for FoodCorps service members.[15] The Host Site partners are:[16]

Philosophy

FoodCorps service members rely on a three-pillared model to accomplish their goal of creating a healthy food environment:[17]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://foodcorps.org/about About FoodCorps
  2. Mark Bittman, Food’s New Foot Soldiers The New York Times, Aug. 13, 2011.
  3. http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/04/launching-today-foodcorps-americorps-for-food.html Serious Eats Launching Today: FoodCorps, 'AmeriCorps for Food'
  4. News: Upton . Cecily . Angry About Bad School Lunches? You Can Go Help Food Corps: A New Organization to Fix America's Food Problems . 2 June 2024 . Good Worldwide, Inc. . December 26, 2010.
  5. Web site: Ian Cheney + Curt Ellis . The Heinz Awards . September 16, 2011 . November 20, 2011.
  6. Web site: Meet JBF Leadership Award Winner Debra Eschmeyer . JBF Food Conference . November 20, 2011.
  7. Web site: East Wing Announcement . January 8, 2015 . National Archives . whitehouse.gov . October 26, 2015.
  8. Web site: Our Team . FoodCorps . October 26, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150905195423/https://foodcorps.org/about/our-team . September 5, 2015 . mdy-all .
  9. Web site: Christopher Chemsak . Food Corps website . Foodcorps.org . November 20, 2011.
  10. http://foodcorps.org/news/foodcorps-on-nbc-nightly-news Out With the Pizza, In With the Veggies
  11. Mark Bittman, Food’s New Foot Soldiers The New York Times, Aug. 13, 2011.
  12. Jane Black, "FoodCorps steps in to help schools do what they couldn’t otherwise afford", The Washington Post, Oct. 4, 2011.
  13. Jane Black, "FoodCorps steps in to help schools do what they couldn’t otherwise afford", The Washington Post, Oct. 4, 2011.
  14. Web site: Host & Service Sites — FoodCorps . Foodcorps.org . November 20, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111128052835/http://foodcorps.org/our-structure . November 28, 2011 . mdy-all .
  15. Web site: Host & Service Sites — FoodCorps . Foodcorps.org . November 20, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111128052835/http://foodcorps.org/our-structure . November 28, 2011 . mdy-all .
  16. https://foodcorps.org/where-we-work FoodCorps
  17. Web site: TFT Interview: Debra Eschmeyer of FoodCorps . Thefastertimes.com . May 27, 2011 . November 20, 2011 . https://archive.today/20130203205916/http://www.thefastertimes.com/foodpolitics/2011/05/27/tft-interview-debra-eschmeyer-of-foodcorps/ . February 3, 2013 . dead .

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