The letter said the funding pause did not impact federal feeding programs. “In order to continue to receive taxpayer dollars from USDA, the state of Maine must demonstrate compliance with Title ...

These efforts include providing nutritious meals to children, strengthening supply chains for local food producers, and fostering the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that provide ...

The USDA is canceling the Local Food for Schools Program and Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement. Feeding the Gulf Coast CEO and president Michael Ledger says the food bank used the ...

That’s why schools and food banks and other feeding programs were ideal customers, White said. Pergrem said as many as 130 farmers and 92 school districts participated in the Local Food for ...

For nearly 900 students, that promise had a name—LEAD. It was more than a scholarship program; it was a direct response to a system that shut the door on Affirmative Action and dared to say diversity ...

MVFB has been feeding families since 1981, largely through bulk food it receives from the USDA and the state through TEFAP. Cuts to that program will have a much wider organizational and community ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A new line item in Gov. Bill Lee's budget would give $3 million to a summer feeding program meant to help children in poverty. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Vince Hall, chief government relations officer for Feeding America, the nation's largest food bank network, said the USDA is reviewing the program and had paused half of TEFAP funding - $500 ...

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WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) - Food banks across the country, already strained by rising demand, say they will have less food to distribute because of at least $1 billion in federal funding cuts ...