For more than 20 years, the Nutrition Consortium of NYS has advocated on behalf of hungry people in NYS. Through the Nutrition Outreach and Education Program (NOEP), millions of New Yorkers have received food stamp benefits and other food assistance, helping them to put food on the table when they may have otherwise gone hungry.
Due to NOEP community-based work throughout NYS, from July 2008-June 2009…
- 27,188 households in NYS applied for and received food stamp benefits.
- 45 new summer meal sites for children were established throughout the state.
- Barriers to participation in the School Breakfast Program were reduced in 20 NYS schools.
Also in 2007-2008, the Nutrition Consortium…
- Facilitated the establishment of universal, in-classroom breakfast programs at 10 NYS schools.
- Successfully advocated for a significant increase in Food Stamp benefits and eligibility through the Farm Bill.
- Achieved improvements for feeding children during the summer through helping to pass the Simplified Summer Food bill.
In the past 20 years, the Nutrition Consortium has…
- Expanded the Nutrition Outreach and Education Program from 20 community-based nutrition outreach and education projects in selected areas in New York to 47 service areas throughout the state.
- Successfully advocated on hundreds of hunger-related policies and pieces of legislation to make many improvements to food assistance programs for hungry New Yorkers.
- Expanded the number of organizations serving free summer meals to low-income children in New York State. New York currently has the largest free summer meal program in the country.
Developed and administered the Academics and Breakfast Connection Pilot, publishing a report which has been used extensively throughout the nation as a resource for promoting universal, in-classroom breakfast.
