CACFP Budget Season: How to Prepare for Your Program’s Expenses

The CACFP budget season is coming up, so it’s time to plan your Food Program’s expenses. Sponsors and Center-based programs must submit an annual budget and revise it after analysis and before making actual changes.

Read our article for tips on preparing for your program’s expenses.

Enhancing Childcare Environments with Farm to School Initiatives

Interested in growing your farm to ECE and CACFP programming? Farm to school programming is a wonderful way to help build that foundation in childcare settings. This is why USDA’s Patrick Leahy Farm to School Program is partnering with the Association of State Public Health Nutritionists (ASPHN) to launch FARMWISE, a two-year learning community for state coalitions building farm to Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) programs.

Summer Meals & Snacks for Kids

In many communities, the arrival of summer brings with it the end of the school year, but for some children, it also means the end of regular access to nutritious meals. However, initiatives like SUN Meals are working to bridge this gap by providing free meals and snacks to kids and teens during the summer months.

Every child aged 18 and under can enjoy SUN Meals, some rural communities now offer SUN Meals To-Go, and eligible school-aged children can also receive SUN Bucks.