ConAgra Foods Foundation Awards $5 Million for Summer Food Program

Feeding America has announced a five-year, $5 million grant from the ConAgra Foods Foundation to help provide free and reduced-price meals for children over the summer months, when many lose access to nutritious meals at school.

Last year, the United States Department of Agriculture provided healthy meals to more than 20 million children during the school year, but to only 2.3 million children through its Summer Food Service Program. The foundation aims to supplement that program by awarding Hunger-Free Summer grants to foodbanks in twenty-three states.