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No Kid Hungry Louisiana School Nutrition Grant Opportunity

10/23/2020

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The No Kid Hungry School Nutrition Grant Opportunity will provide funding to school districts and schools to augment child nutrition programs and emergency food programs to ensure children and families have access to healthy meals at school and at home.

Grant funds will also be provided to communities experiencing economic hardship and having existing or increasingly high COVID-19 infection rates. In determining economic impact, No Kid Hungry will review data points including: free and reduced eligible students, unemployment rates, child food insecurity rates, and the social vulnerability index score.

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Applicants will be required to provide the following information:

District Food Service Director and Superintendent contact
Historic district-wide enrollment and school meals participation for breakfast, lunch, and afterschool meals and snacks from October 2019 and SY19-20
Information about your current and planned food and nutrition programs for SY20-21
Detailed description of grant funding program objectives
Detailed budget of anticipated use of funding

How to apply?

  1. Log into or create an account for the No Kid Hungry Grants Portal.
  2. To create a new account, click New User.
  3. To begin your application after you have logged into the No Kid Hungry Grants Portal, click Start a New Application on your Grantee Dashboard located on the top left corner of your home page, below the No Kid Hungry logo.
  4. Input the following access code to gain access to the application: SchoolNutrition2021. Click Start Application to begin.
  5. Be sure to input all required answers and save frequently as you are inputting information.
  6. Complete the application when all information is entered by clicking on Review Your Answers and then Submit Your Answer.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis through November 2020.