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Poverty is complex; feeding a child is not.
Share Our Strength
Operation Frontline
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants & Children
(WIC)
The WIC Program provides monthly vouchers (or in some cases food packages) for nutritious foods to supplement the diets of low-income pregnant and postpartum women, infants and children through age five who are at nutritional risk.
96,000 (40-50%) of Colorado infants benefited from the WIC Program in October 2007
3/4 of the WIC budget goes to food distribution
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Resources
Federal Funding for Nutrition Programs
National School Lunch Act
- Summer Food Service Program
- Child & Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
Child Nutrition Act of 1966 Title III
- Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program
- WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program
- Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants & Children (WIC)
- Special Milk Program
- School Breakfast Program
Farm Bill Title IV
- Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)
- Food Stamp Program
- Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico
- Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR)
- Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program
- The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)
Older Americans' Act Title III
- Home-Delivered Meals Program
- Nutrition Services Incentives Program
- Congregate Meals Program
- Nutrition Services Incentives Program
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 Title III
- Emergency Food and Shelter Program
Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act
- Title I & II Supportive Services Linked to Medical Outcomes
National Anti-Hunger Organizations
www.secondharvest.org
www.bread.org
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
www.cbpp.org
- Center on Hunger and Poverty
www.centeronhunger.org
- Community Food Security Coalition
www.foodsecurity.org
- Congressional Hunger Center
www.hungercenter.org
www.endhunger.com
- Food Research and Action Center
www.frac.org
- MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger
www.mazon.org
www.results.org
www.strength.org
www.worldhungeryear.org
Colorado Resources
Food Banks
- Care and Share Food Bank (America Second Harvest)
www.careandshare.org
- Community Food Share (American Second Harvest)
www.communityfoodshare.org
- Food Bank for Larimer County (America Second Harvest)
www.foodbanklarimer.org
- Food Bank of the Rockies (America Second Harvest)
www.foodbankrockies.org
- Weld Food Bank (America Second Harvest)
www.weldfoodbank.org
- Compa Food Bank Ministries
www.compa.org
www.jewishfamilyservice.org
Many local organizations, churches, direct service agencies provide emergency food assistance. Please contact CAN or one of the food organizations listed above for information about local providers.
Government Agencies
- Colorado Department of Education (Nutrition Services)
www.cde.state.co.us
- Colorado Department of Human Services (Food Distribution Programs)
www.cdhs.state.co.us/fdp
- Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
www.cdphe.state.co.us
- Colorado State University, Cooperative Extension Services
www.colostate.edu
- US Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, Mountain Plains Region
www.fns.usda.gov/fns
Statewide Organizations:
www.thebell.org
- Colorado Action for Healthy Kids
www.actionforhealthykids.org
- Colorado Center on Law & Policy - Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute
www.cclponline.org
- Colorado Children's Campaign
www.coloradokids.org
- Southwest Marketing Network - Farm To School
- Colorado Food and Agriculture Policy Council
www.coopext.colostate.edu
www.dairycouncil.com
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