Check out this blog from the nonprofit Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) for the latest happenings in child nutrition, with easy-to-digest writing about policies, research and what we can all do to help kids eat and live more healthily in and out of school.

The Campus Kitchen Project (CKP) will mark its fifth anniversary with a leadership conference on October 5-7.

With 23 states flunking CSPI's report card on school foods, the Center for Science in the Public Interest says Congress should pass national legislation to ensure that all of America's children get healthy foods in their schools all day long.

The Public Welfare Foundation's Hunger and Nutrition grants average $25,000 and $50,000.

Thanks to new legislation, schools across the country have to roll out comprehensive new wellness policies before the start of the next school year. It's an issue that the Girl Scouts of America has been focusing on, so Connect for Kids decided to find out what Girl Scouts across the country have to say about staying healthy and how schools can help. Sisters Lauren and Megan from Columbia, S.C. kick off a series of interviews prepared by Emerson Hunger Fellow Roshin Mathew.

CFK Reports From: Release of the Ten Point Plan To End Childhood Hunger In The Nation's Capital
Event: Press Conference
Organized By: DC Hunger Solutions, The Food Research and Action Center, and Share Our Strength
Where/When: Kennedy Recreational Center; April 18, 2006

Hunger advocates, politicians, students, teachers, parents and bureaucrats from Washington D.C. gathered to witness the public presentation of the city's plan to end childhood hunger in the nation's capital. Kim Perry, founding Director of D.C. Hunger Solutions, kicked of the event by questioning the crowd, "Guess what?" She answered her own question, "We are going to end childhood hunger in D.C."

While the federal government has played a role in regulating school feeding programs for low-income children for about 40 years now, school districts are now working to comply with a new, much broader federal requirement calling for the development of local "wellness policies" that address issues of all the foods and drinks made available to all students during the school day, along with nutrition education, physical education, and the encouragement of healthy habits. Roshin Mathew explains.

CFK Reports From: The Future of Children: Childhood Obesity
Event: Forum
Organized By: Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and The Brookings Institution
Where/When: Faulk Auditorium – The Brookings Institution, March 14, 2006

A panel of four policy makers discussed their approaches to the problem of childhood obesity in the U.S., at an event marking the release of the third volume in The Future of Children series on the issue.

The headline says it all: "Inequality in the Built Environment Underlies Key Health Disparities in Physical Activity and Obesity." That's the bottom line from a new study in the journal Pediatrics, which finds that areas with higher socio-economic status were significantly more likely than lower-economic and high-minority blocks to have one or more recreational facilities that enable physical activity. This is the first study to look at the disparity in access to recreation sites and the activity and overweight patterns in U.S. teens.

The largest and most comprehensive study of hunger to date contains some stunning findings. As many as 27 million people, including 9 million children, get emergency food help each year from America’s Second Harvest. About 36 percent of adults served are employed. Many families who experience food insecurity say they’ve had to choose between buying food and paying for their utilities, rent or mortgage, or medical care. Food pantries and emergency service organizations rely heavily on volunteers to get their work done.