Proactive Planning for Summer Meals Sponsors

Overview

One of the best ways to sustain, strengthen and expand your summer meals program is to approach planning as a year-round endeavor. The following guidance is a road map to help identify activities that most benefit your program at different times throughout the year.

This year-round planning calendar is designed to support a program planning and implementation timeline that maximizes sponsor capacity to operate a sustainable summer meals program.

Use this guide as a framework for your organization's step-by-step and month-by-month planning for summer meals.