Teaming up with the Food Bank of the Southern Tier, the Rock on Café program runs a «Week of Caring» to collect food donations to support the Food Bank's BackPack Program, which provides healthy, kid - friendly, and easy - to - prepare foods to children at risk of hunger over weekends and holiday breaks when they do not have access to free or reduced price school meal programs. (binghamtonhomepage.com)
FRAC measures how well the Summer Nutrition Programs are reaching children in need by comparing the number of low - income children receiving summer meals to those receiving free and reduced - price school meals during the normal school year. (beyondbreakfast.org)
These statistics include state - level data on poverty, participation in SNAP (3SquaresVT), TANF (Reach Up), Medicaid (Dr. Dynasaur), the Free and Reduced Price School Meals Program, and households with food insecurity. (voicesforvtkids.org)