Calling all school meal programs in Northeast Ohio!  Have a passion for serving kids fresh, healthy meals?  Love to figure out ways to incorporate local foods into your school meal program while maximizing your budget? Value partnerships with organizations that want to be partners in the school food movement?  COVID-19 have you reconsidering how to serve meals next school year?

We want you.  Better yet - we need you!  We have a chance to pilot what an all Ohio local lunch could look like.  Even better - we want to do this grab and go style and the Feed Our Future team needs your help to make that a reality!   We see grab and go meals where everything has been grown, raised, processed, or has Ohio ingredients in the product being served to school aged children.    

Our goal is to work as partners with school districts to prove that procuring local foods can be done, even during COVID-19 and post COVID-19.  Our intent is that districts that participate in this pilot serve as a Feed Our Future benchmark school and mentor other districts in future years.  Let's work together to encourage and inspire others school meal programs and school districts to want to innovate school meals and join the local food movement.  

We have funds through our USDA Farm to School grant to partner with 5 local school districts interested in making local lunch takeovers during the 2020-2021 school year a reality.    Each participating school district will receive a $2,000 stipend to help defray food costs and needed supplies.  

The Feed Our Future team is working on 4 all local, grab and go lunch concepts.  We will provide all nutritional and costing analysis, training, and educational materials for students and families.

If selected, participating school districts will:

- Serve 4 Feed Our Future local takeover grab and go meals during the 2020-2021 school year.  Based on your district infrastructure, your school district can choose to implement the grab and go meals at one or multiple sites.
- Partner with the Feed Our Future team to procure the meal components, train staff, and promote  your day.
- Allow the Feed Our Future team to attend and participate in any events the day the grab and go meals are served.
- Participate in brief surveys and other evaluation efforts.  These could include staff testimonials, student feedback, surveys, etc.  

Interested in participating?  Follow these important steps:

- Participating districts must take or have taken the Feed Our Future pledge.  (https://feedourfuture.org/take-the- 
  pledge/).
- Fully complete application (below).  Applications are due by 3 pm on Friday, May 22, 2020.

Each application will be scored on a points scale, as outlined in each question.  In addition, we will in to account geographic location, kitchen set-up, and lunch participation to ensure a diverse number of participation.

Award announcements will be made on June 1, 2020.

Not familiar with Feed Our Future?  Visit www.feedourfuture.org to learn more about our work.  

Have questions?  Email us at ohiofeedourfuture@gmail.com