The Chef Ann Foundation promotes whole-ingredient, scratch cooking in schools. This approach enables schools to serve the healthiest, tastiest meals so that kids are well-fed and ready to learn.
We’re dedicated to empowering schools nationwide with the tools, training, resources, and funding they need to serve meals. Browse through programs to learn more about our work and apply for a grant.
Since 2009, the Chef Ann Foundation has worked with schools to implement healthy school meal programs. Dive into the organization’s history and learn about our impact on school food reform over the years.
Whether you are a school district administrator, food service director, food service team member, concerned parent, student or committed community advocate, there are many ways to get involved in changing the way we feed our kids.
Want to learn how you can create school food change? Our toolkit lays out how to approach your district and advocate for healthier food in your child’s school.
Learn more about school food with resources, home recipes, and press materials.
The Chef Ann Foundation promotes whole-ingredient, scratch cooking in schools. This approach enables schools to serve the healthiest, tastiest meals so that kids are well-fed and ready to learn.
We’re dedicated to empowering schools nationwide with the tools, training, resources, and funding they need to serve meals. Browse through programs to learn more about our work and apply for a grant.
Since 2009, the Chef Ann Foundation has worked with schools to implement healthy school meal programs. Dive into the organization’s history and learn about our impact on school food reform over the years.
Whether you are a school district administrator, food service director, food service team member, concerned parent, student or committed community advocate, there are many ways to get involved in changing the way we feed our kids.
Want to learn how you can create school food change? Our toolkit lays out how to approach your district and advocate for healthier food in your child’s school.
Learn more about school food with resources, home recipes, and press materials.
In early July, Congress passed a massive spending and tax bill, the so-called “big, beautiful bill,” which President Trump signed into law. What’s in this nearly 900-page bill, and how does it affect school food?
While the recently passed budget reconciliation bill did not directly alter school nutrition programs, it will have downstream effects on the ability of school food programs to serve and for students to access healthy meals.
Food insecurity does not exist in a vacuum. While our work focuses on school meals, we recognize that the school food professionals and students we support also rely on programs such as SNAP and Medicaid to ensure their families have access to healthy food.
If families lose access to SNAP and Medicaid due to program changes from this legislation, that will affect students’ ability to be directly certified for school meals through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). In other words, we’re adding more red tape for families and school food programs to get healthy meals to kids.
States will have to fill in for federal funding gaps, which has the potential to pit nutrition programs like SNAP and school meals against each other or cause states to pull out from nutrition programs altogether. Investing in healthy school meals and ensuring that programs like SNAP are adequately funded isn’t a binary choice—we can do both.
We stand ready to support school food programs and professionals across the country as they navigate any ripple effects from the budget reconciliation bill. The 30 million U.S. students who rely on these meals each day can’t afford for us to do otherwise.
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