Whole Kids Foundation is devoted to improving children’s nutrition and wellness and ending childhood obesity. In the USA, the foundation assists schools with school garden grants, salad bar grants and healthy teacher’s workshops. In the UK, the foundation has supported cooking and enterprise projects with both primary and secondary schools.
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Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation
Australian chef, Stephanie Alexander, began this at just one school in Victoria back in 2001. It has since grown into a national food education programme backed by central government. Young children all over Australia now enjoy seasonal produce at school.

National farm to school network
Farm to school enriches the connection communities have with fresh, healthy food and local food producers by changing food purchasing and education practices at schools and early care and education settings.

Slow Food
Slow Food delivers projects, events and activities all around the world via its global network. They focus on Food and Taste Education, Defending Biodiversity, Creating New Food Networks and Connecting Consumers and Producers.

International School Meals Day
International School Meals Day celebrates food and promotes healthy living through the education environment with support from organisations across the UK and the USA.

Island Grown Schools
The Island Grown Schools project helps children living on Martha's Vineyard deepen their understanding of the way food connects people to one another by supporting school gardening, donating local food to schools and organising farm field trips.

The Edible Schoolyard Project
A curriculum and lunch program where growing, cooking and sharing food at the table gives students the knowledge and values to build a humane and sustainable future. Founder Alice Waters created the Edible Schoolyard program.

Two Angry Moms
Two Angry Moms is a documentary film that asks the question: What happens when two fed-up moms try to change school food? Filmmaker Amy Kalafa crosses the country in search of alternatives to the toxic food environment found in many US schools. The film offers inspirational examples of how to improve school food.

Yale Sustainable Food Project
Chef John Turenne set up the Yale Sustainable Food Project in 1999, serving fresh sustainable food to students on campus. SFS now helps organisations incorporate new sustainable practices to serve seasonally fresh, nutritional, and delicious foods.

Cafeteria Man
Cafeteria Man follows trail blazer Tony Geraci as he fights to transform Baltimore and Memphis school food from pre-plated junk food to fresher, healthier and local meals.

Ample Harvest
The Ample Harvest campaign diminishes hunger in America by helping backyard gardeners share their excess garden produce with neighbourhood food pantries.

Chef Ann Foundation
In 2009 Chef Ann had a vision to create an organization that helps schools take action so that every child has daily access to fresh, healthy food. Today, the Chef Ann Foundation (CAF) carries out that vision by actively supporting school districts nationwide through grant programs and by providing tried and tested tools for school food change.

Wellness In The Schools
Wellness in the Schools (WITS) is a national non-profit that inspires healthy eating and physical activity in public schools. Through meaningful public-private partnerships, we empower schools to provide healthy, scratch-cooked meals, active recess periods, and fitness and nutrition education.

Ohio University
Ohio University's food desert resources can help individuals, rural cities and international communities who are living in food deserts obtain healthy foods. Learn about the different ways to increase access to healthy foods and the importance of nutritious diets.