Founded | 2010 |
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Type | Nonprofit organization |
Members | 205 AmeriCorps service members |
Key people | Curt Ellis – Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Debra Eschmeyer – Co-Founder |
Website | http://www.foodcorps.org |
FoodCorps is an American non-profit organization whose mission is to work with communities to "connect kids to healthy food in school."[1] FoodCorps places service members in limited-resource communities where they spend a year working with teachers and students to establish farm to school programs, incorporate nutrition education into school curricula, plant school gardens, and engage in other initiatives to improve school food.[2] Like Teach for America and Habitat for Humanity, FoodCorps is a grantee of AmeriCorps.[3]