LANSING — The Michigan Department of Education lately introduced an additional 29 grantees for “10 Cents A Meal for Michigan’s Kids & Farms,” after reopening the matching grant program for a second software window.
Ten Cents a Meal, Michigan’s state-funded farm to establishment grant, offers matching incentive funding up to 10 cents per meal to buy and serve Michigan-grown fruits, greens, and legumes.
The grant has gone from a regional pilot program in 2016 to lastly being out there to candidates statewide for the 2020-2021 faculty yr. The newest funding of $5 million {dollars} from the state affirms the significance of 10 Cents a Meal in offering recent, wholesome, native fruits, greens, and dry beans for Michigan’s kids.
“One of my proudest accomplishments throughout my legislative tenure is the expansion of 10 Cents a Meal, particularly right here in northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. This program is critically-important in getting recent Michigan vegatables and fruits to our college students and we now have a complete of 257 grantees throughout the state. I’m thrilled to see Cheboygan Area Schools, Harbor Springs School District, Inland Lakes Schools, and Brimley Area Schools be part of as 10 Cents a Meal grantees,” mentioned Sen. Wayne Schmidt (R) of Traverse City.
The grant is presently in its second yr of statewide availability, and there are actually 257 distinctive grantees for the 2021-22 faculty yr, representing greater than 585,000 kids.
Compared to final yr’s 143 grantees, the program has seen an almost 80% improve in grant recipients in a single yr.
10 Cents a Meal is open to faculty districts (public, public faculty academies, or non-public), and non-school sponsors of USDA Child Nutrition Programs resembling residential childcare establishments (RCCIs), little one care facilities and after faculty packages collaborating within the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP).
“It’s so encouraging to see this promising trend that Michigan’s youngest children of all income levels, from Detroit to the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula, are benefiting from the high nutritional quality of locally grown food,” mentioned Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities Policy specialist Nathan Medina.
Groundwork is a key Michigan Department of Education accomplice on the ten Cents a Meal program.
The 29 new grantees embody the next: Freeland Community School District, White Cloud Public Schools, Daily Shepherd Child Care Center, Boys And Girls Club Benton Harbor, Harbor Springs School District, Fremont Public School District, Association For Child Development, Ludington Area School District, Grand Rapids Metropolitan YMCA, Charlotte Public Schools, Dee’s Little Angels Child Care Center, Bambi Land Child Care, Bright Beginnings, Newaygo Public School District, Children’s Paradise Learning Center, Inc., Orchard Hill Reformed Church, Napoleon Community Schools, Summerfield Schools, Springport Public Schools, Inland Lakes Schools, Cheboygan Area Schools, Capac Community Schools, Kalkaska Public Schools, Brimley Area Schools, Fruitport Community Schools, Child Star Development Center, A & W Day Care Center, Steepletown Neighborhood Services, and Village Of Shiny Stars Child Care.
For extra details about the program, please go to the ten Cents a Meal web site at www.tencentsmichigan.org.
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