Our Daily Bread Food Pantry (ODBFP) is pleased to announce it has received a $10,000 grant from the Marco Island Community Fund of Collier Community Foundation. These funds will support providing fresh and nutritious food options for a total of 100 new student participants at Tommie Barfield Elementary and Marco Island Academy. For the 2024-2025 academic year, ODBFP will now expand its roster to seven local schools serving 700 food-insecure students (K-12) through recurring weekly deliveries.
“Food insecurity hits our kids the hardest” states ODBFP Executive Director Evelyn Rossetti-Ryan, EdD. “Our school programming is specifically designed to help hungry children access the nutritious choices needed to maximize their full potential by ensuring they have the energy to focus, engage, learn, and grow. Good nutrition is essential in establishing a good foundation that has long-term implications for a child’s future physical and mental health, academic achievement, and economic productivity.”
Thanks to the support of generous funders like the Marco Island Community Fund of Collier Community Foundation, ODBFP anticipates providing an estimated 100,000 pounds of food overall specifically for this school year alone. School personnel determine and request the help most needed for their specific students and choose from available service options, including providing a variety of healthy snacks daily while in school (typical items include shelf-safe milk and juices; cereal/ oatmeal; granola bars; and Uncrustables; with an emphasis on fresh fruit and other easily prepared options) or through the distribution of Weekend Packs specifically designed to ensure access to two days of nutritious meals over the weekend for children while not in school.
Keywords
food security,
nutrition,
poverty,
food politics,
social issues,
hunger,
health,
malnutrition,
health and politics,
determinants of health,
food industry,
humanitarian aid,
culture,
prevention,
food and the environment,
charity,
self-care,
nutritional deficiencies,
economy,
standard of living,
branches of science,
distribution of wealth,
industries (economics),
food bank,
politics,
intentional living,
agriculture,
sustainable food system,
organization,
ethical consumerism,
agricultural revolutions,
causes of death,
security,
health promotion,
food,
safety,
child,
public policy,
public health,
change,
global health,
food activism,
human development,
famines,
social programs,
health care,
public sphere,
issues in ethics,
philanthropy,
primary sector of the economy,
united states,
assistance,
liberal arts education,
marco island,
florida,
sustainable agriculture,
environmental social science,
culture and the environment,
childhood,
human life stages,
economy and the environment,
scarcity,
primate behavior,
family,
mental health,
aid,
urban agriculture,
agriculture and the environment,
youth,
sustainability,
causes of conditions,
sustainable development,
relational ethics,
environmental movements,
education,
productivity,
emergency management,
social institutions,
sustainable business,
economic problems,
lifestyles,
hazards,
behavioural sciences,
urban planning,
society of the united states,
disasters,
energy,
new urbanism,
welfare,
psychological concepts,
planning,
private sector,
health education,
social psychology,
public services,
natural environment,
environment,
social movements,
environmental issues,
urbanization,
tommie barfield,
eating behaviors of humans,
psychology,
spatial planning,
applied psychology,
environmental design,
meals,
land administration,
free meals,
population geography,
health policy,
applied ethics,
wealth,
economy of the united states,
private aid programs,
humanitarian crises,
activism,
primary industries,
sustainable technologies,
interpersonal relationships,
living arrangements,
vertebrate developmental biology,
consumer,
ageing,
natural resources,
kinship and descent,
hunger relief,
nature,
economic development,
international development,
hunger relief organizations,
causes of events,
food science,
environmentalism,
social policy,
foods,
malnutrition organizations,
clinical medicine,
microeconomics,
man-made disasters,
food waste,
social crises,
marketing,
political ideologies,
consequences of events,
behavior modification,
food watchlist articles,
environmental technology,
food- and drink-related organizations,
economies,
environmental impact,
economics,
ethical schools and movements,
education and health,
death,
medical specialties,
land management,
effects of war,
health sciences,
consumerism,
landscape architecture,
human impact on the environment,
sustainable design,
human migration,
sustainable urban planning,
public administration,
human ecology,
societal collapse,
child development,
land use,
social influence,
food and nutrition charities,
life skills,
medical humanities,
outdoor recreation,
agricultural technology,
future problems,
business economics,
consumer behaviour,
crisis,
health economics,
dining,
giving,
epidemiology,
economics of sustainability,
food banks,
global environmental issues,
popular psychology,
risk,
academic meals,
social inequality,
social economy,
medicine,
corporate social responsibility,
poverty-related organizations,
effects of climate change,
eating behaviors,
economic ideologies,
climate change and the environment,
industry (economics),
developmental psychology,
policy,
construction,
food and drink,
altruism,
macroeconomics,
diseases and disorders,
government,
food deserts,
food retailing
Comments
No comments on this item Please log in to comment by clicking here