Supporting Food Literacy When You Can’t Gather: Read Eat Grow Gets Creative South Carolina State Library By Rebecca Antill, Youth Services Consultant For several years, the South Carolina State Library has been supporting a statewide Food Literacy initiative that we titled “Read Eat Grow.” This initiative supports libraries in offering a variety of Read More
Feeding children in the time of COVID-19 Globe Public Library, Arizona By Adria Ricke, Director, Globe Public Library, AZ At the 2016 Arizona State Library Annual Conference, the Globe Public Library found out about the USDA Summer Lunch Buddies Program. We learned that the program exists to provide free and healthy meals to any child 18 Read More
Feeding the Whole Child... and the rest of the community Plain City Public Library, Ohio By Shane Hoffman, Plain City Public Library, OH & Team Vittles We’ll cut straight to the chase today. The Coronavirus is creating a massive strain on our nation’s ability to feed itself. It Read More
Food for Thought at the Somerville Public Library Somerville Public Library, Somerville, Massachusetts by Lilly Sundell-Thomas, Deputy Director and Meg Ragland, Programming and Outreach Librarian People in Somerville, Massachusetts, love to garden. But in a city with more than 80,000 residents packed into just over 4 square miles, the Read More
Stuffing the Bus: Lunch and Toys MidPointe Library System, Ohio by Whitney Harper, Library Associate In 2019, MidPointe Library System had an idea to take collecting items for Toys for Tots to a bigger level. Toys for Tots began as a Los Angeles charitable effort in 1947 by Read More
Central Arkansas Library System Helps Young People with Food While School’s Out Central Arkansas Library System (Little Rock, Arkansas) By Kay Kay DeRossette, Project Coordinator, Be Mighty Little Rock In 2018-2019, Be Mighty Little Rock created an unprecedented partnership of organizations across the City of Little Rock to Read More
Summer Meals at Charleston County Public Library Charleston County Public Library, Charleston, South Carolina by Devon Andrews, Manager of Programming and Outreach Like most public libraries, Charleston County Public Library branches see an influx of kids and teens during the summer months. While many of them are there Read More
Filling a Void in Middletown MidPointe Library, Middletown, Ohio by Ally Doliboa, Youth Programming Librarian The Middletown branch of the MidPointe Library System was in its fourth year of participating in the Summer Food Service Program in 2019. During this time, we have made a handful of adjustments to Read More
Summer Meals at Palmer Library Palmer Public Library (Palmer Massachusetts) By Stephanie Maher, Director, Palmer Public Library About seven or eight years ago, I picked up a copy of School Library Journal and read about California’s amazing public library summer lunch program. I immediately knew I wanted to Read More
Feeding the Community in West Hartford West Hartford Public Libraries, Connecticut by Carol Waxman, Children's Services Librarian The West Hartford Public Libraries in West Hartford, Connecticut have partnered with local agencies to support the effort of providing assistance to families with food insecurities in our community. The Faxon Read More
