Press Releases & Statements

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Melissa Cipollone, Senior Director of Marketing
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2024

• Chef Ann Foundation Announces the Sixth Cohort of Get Schools Cooking (December 17)
• Application Now Open for Spring 2025 California Healthy School Food Pathway Pre-Apprenticeship (November 19)
• Chef Ann Foundation Awards 29 Grants to 15 School Districts Across U.S. to Transition to Bulk Milk (September 6)
• Become a School Food Reform Leader: Apply for the 2025 Healthy School Food Pathway Fellowship (August 14)
• Elevate Your School District’s Scratch Cooking: Apply Now to Chef Ann Foundation’s Get Schools Cooking Program (August 1)
• Chef Ann Foundation Announces Recipients of Partnerships for Local Agriculture & Nutrition Transformation in Schools Grants (May 16) Leer en español
• Applications Now Open for Fall 2024 California Healthy School Food Pathway Pre-Apprenticeship (May 6)
• Scratch Cooking is the Vehicle for Schools to Meet USDA’s New School Meal Standards & Achieve Better Nutrition for Our Students (April 24)
• Schools Nationwide Can Now Apply to Receive a Bulk Milk Grant (April 22)
• New Study Shows California K-12 School Food Staff Shortages Are Three Times Higher Than Public School Teacher Shortages Nationwide (February 20)
• Chef Ann Foundation Announces 2024 Cohort of National Healthy School Food Pathway Fellowship (January 18)

2023

• Chef Ann Foundation Launches New Grant Program Seeking to Build Equitable and Sustainable School Food Supply Chains (November 27) | Leer en español
• Chef Ann Foundation Awards 43 Grants to 18 School Districts Across U.S. to Transition to Bulk Milk (November 9)
• Chef Ann Foundation Opens Applications for Healthy School Food Pathway Fellowship to Cultivate New Generation of School Food Leaders (August 28)
• The Bulk Milk Solution: Chef Ann Foundation Launches National Program to Help Schools Reduce Food Waste (May 16)
• Chef Ann Foundation Signs a Cooperative Agreement with the USDA to Help Create a More Resilient, Equitable, and Nutritious School Food System (March 22)
• Chef Ann Foundation Launches First-Ever Federally Registered Fellowship Program to Cultivate New Generation of School Food Leaders (January 30)

2022

• First K-12 Scratch-Cook School Food Focused Fellowship (September 6)
• Application Open for 5th Cohort of Get Schools Cooking (August 1)
• Announcing New Assessment Technology for All K-12 Food Programs (June 2)

2021
 

• The Chef Ann Foundation Announces New Health and Nutrition Program “Creating Your Kitchen” with Key Community Partners (September 8)
   

2020

• A Letter from Our Team: We Can and Must Do Better (June 30)
• Five Districts to Implement Scratch Cooking in Schools (February 20)
• Chef Ann Foundation Response to USDA Proposed Rules (January 17)

2019

• National Grant Opens to Support Scratch Cooking in Schools (August 19)
• Chef Ann Foundation Partners with Restaurant Chefs to Host its First-Ever National Real School Food Challenge (June 21)
• Chef Ann Foundation Marks 10 Years of Healthy School Food Reform (May 26)
• Danone North America and Chef Ann Foundation Release 12 New School Food Recipes on National School Lunch Database (February 1)

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