Through Education, Skill Building, and Advocacy
Face Hunger™
Face Hunger™ workshops engage participants in role-playing activities that increase awareness and understanding of hunger and poverty and the many causes. These interactive sessions are effective with a variety of audiences – business, civic, political, faith-based, middle and high schools and universities. For more information please email advocacy@capitalareafoodbank.org
Farm Youth Initiative
This program teaches urban youth about the importance of making healthy food choices through a nutrition class and a field trip to Clagett Farm. Classes focus on basic nutrition themes centered around a hands-on opportunity to participate in vegetable growing, cultivating, harvesting and healthy snack preparation. For more information please visit our Farm Youth Initiative webpage or email fgu@capitalareafoodbank.org
Hunger Champions
Hunger Champions are supporters who are committed to advocating on behalf of the Capital Area Food Bank and the issue of hunger. For more information please email advocacy@capitalareafoodbank.org
Snack Box
The Snack Box Program empowers site staff at Kids Cafe afterschool programs to make snack time healthy, fun, and educational. Snack Boxes contain ingredients to prepare a healthy, economical snack for 30 children combined with an interactive nutrition lesson, key messages, visuals, and copies of the recipe for children to take home. The Snack Box helps site leaders model healthy eating and talk about healthy food choices with their kids in a fun, interactive, and engaging way. For more information on the Snack Box Program, please contact vajackson@capitalareafoodbank.org
Cooking Matters™
The Cooking Matters Program enlists volunteer chefs and nutrition educators to teach nutrition, cooking, food safety and food budgeting. These series are taught once a week for six weeks at community centers, schools, senior centers and transitional housing. For more information please email kevans@capitalareafoodbank.org.
TEFAP (The Emergency Food Assistance Program)
Every month the CAFB collaborates with the USDA to distribute food through the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) directly to those eligible in Arlington, Langley Park and Northeast D.C. communities. For more information please email partnerrelations@capitalareafoodbank.org
Urban Gardening with Youth
This program teaches gardening and nutrition skills in Anacostia. This community-based summer education program encourages the consumption of fresh, seasonal produce through a hands-on urban gardening experience and healthy snack cooking classes. For more information please visit our From the Ground Up in the Community program webpage and email fgu@capitalareafoodbank.org
