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Create your own fundraising opportunity! . Summer Food Service Community Engagement Program While many children receive meals during the school year, very few in Ohio receive the nutritious meals needed to continue their growth and development during the summer months. Unfortunately, hunger doesn't take a summer vacation, so we can't take a vacation from Feeding hungry minds and bodies®. Children's Hunger Alliance works with schools, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, and governmental agencies to expand use of the USDA Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). Our work focuses on: engaging community-based groups to act as sponsors or sites for the Summer Food Service Program; encouraging schools to provide meals for children during summer intervention programs; promoting the summer meals to parents and children via mailers, billboards, bus promotions, and media events; and, encouraging programming at the sites to increase participation and help children continue learning in the summer months. assisting families in locating nearby sites through our system Why are our efforts to expand the availablility of the Summer Food Service Program across Ohio so important? Over 400,000 children in Ohio are hungry or at risk of hunger. The Summer Food Service programs are only reaching less than 13% of these children. Here are the statistics:   Children Participating   July 2002 July 2003 Summer Food Service Program 44,276 44,095 NSLP Summer Meals 11,069 8,661 TOTAL 55,345 52,756 To be successful, we must reach the remaining children across the entire state. Help Children's Hunger Alliance by Feeding hungry minds and bodies® in your community! The Summer Food Service Program is a USDA funded program that provides cash reimbursements to sponsoring agencies that provide nutritionally adequate meals in the summertime, through sites all around Ohio. The program is administered at the state level by the Ohio Department of Education. Take note: To participate in the Summer Food Service Program, your agency must be a federal tax-exempt agency. If your organization is for-profit, you are not eligibleto be a sponsor or a site under this program (however, if your organization is interested in volunteering at sites or providing other services, fill out this form or call Children's Hunger Alliance at 614-341-7700, Ext. 221 to speak to Charlie Kozlesky. *Full Name: Organization: Title: *Address:   *City: *State & Zip Code Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut DC Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhodes Island South Carolina South Dakoda Utah Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisoncsin Wyoming - Work Phone: Cell Phone: *e-Mail: The Following Questions Will Help Determine Your Agency's Availability for Program Participation: *1) Is your organization/agency one of the following? Public or Non-profit Private School Food Authority Public or Non-profit Private Residential Summer Camp State, Local, Municipal or County Government Facility College or University Participating in the National Youth Sports Program Other Private Nonprofit Organization Other: *2) Does your organization provide a year-round public service to the area in which you intend to provide the Summer Food Service Program? Yes      No *3) Is the population you will serve children 1-18 years of age? (The program may also be available for children with disabilities enrolled in an educational plan through age 21.) Yes      No *4) Will you serve children in low-income areas, or specific groups of low-income children? *5) Does your organization have one of the following ways to provide meals? Organization owned kitchen with a Department of Health license A leased kitchen with a Department of Health license A contract with a private food service management company A contract with a local school food service Other: *6) Would your organization accept financial and administrative responsibility for your program and sites? Yes      No Depending on your answers to these questions, your site may, or may not, be eligible to SPONSOR a Summer Food Service Program and receive cash reimbursements for meals served to children in qualifying areas. If not, your organization may qualify to be a SITE under an existing sponsoring agency and simply receive meals to serve to children in your program! To take the next step, submit this form and Children’s Hunger Alliance will contact you to provide you with additional information, options and next steps. *required In accordance with Federal law and U.S. Department of Agriculture policy, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, Room 326-W, Whitten Building, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410 or call (202)720-5964 (voice and TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. For more information, call 614-341-7700, ext. 221 or e-mail. Children's Hunger Alliance and USDA are equal opportunity providers and employers. Help support the Alliance!       Columbus Panerathon Join Us! Thursday, August 28th 7:30 p.m.   Click here for more info Thank You! The Dayton Daily News has run an article on our recent Dayton Summer Field Day!   Click here for the article!

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