Webinars | Center for Best Practices

PAST EVENT
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
2:00 - 3:00pm EDT More Details

Year-Round Meals: Connecting Summer & Afterschool Meals

The webinar is the final installment of 2017's ‘School’s Out, Food’s In’ Summer Meals webinar series. Learn about streamlining options for summer and afterschool meals, as well as best practices for providers transitioning between the two programs.

PAST EVENT
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
2:00 - 3:00pm EDT More Details

Amplifying Impact Through Summer Meals Marketing & Outreach

Learn about communication strategy that will amplify your ability to develop and implement an outreach plan that maximizes the impact of your meals program.

PAST EVENT
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
2:00 - 3:00pm EDT More Details

Improving Meal Quality in the Summer, One Change at a Time

Learn about their challenges and barriers, lessons learned and strategies for ensuring meal quality – while controlling costs – to maximize participation in summer meals. In addition, you’ll leave this webinar equipped with resources from Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters team and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.

PAST EVENT
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
3:00 - 4:15pm EDT More Details

Afterschool Meals: A Win-Win-Win for Schools

Drawing on best practices gleaned from pilot tests and interviews as well as resources like the Three Meals a Day guide co-produced with the School Nutrition Foundation, this webinar will show how Afterschool Meals can be a win-win-win for schools.

PAST EVENT
Sunday, February 19, 2017
2:00 - 3:00pm EST More Details

Mobile Meals: Identify & Implement Creative Solutions to Connect With Children & Families

This webinar highlights providers who are thinking outside of the box to attract additional partners and deepen existing relationships in order to support transportation solutions that are sustainable, cost-effective, and responsive to community needs and assets.

PAST EVENT
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
2:00 - 3:00pm EST More Details

Collaborative Planning: Build Community and Leverage Resources to Strengthen Summer Meals Programming

Collaborative planning is a key strategy in which multiple stakeholders join together to achieve progress that no individual organization can achieve on its own. It is also the subject of the inaugural webinar of this year's No Kid Hungry 'School's Out, Food's In' webinar series!

PAST EVENT
Thursday, September 29, 2016
2:00 - 3:00pm EDT More Details

Enhance Your School Meals with the Smart Food Planner

Need help finding healthy food and beverage options that meet students' taste preferences and are also in alignment with your school's budget.

PAST EVENT
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
3:00 - 4:00pm EDT More Details

New Tool: Averaged Eligibility Map

This informative webinar will to walk you through how to use the Share Our Strength’s new Averaged Eligibility Map and user’s guide, and how to use the data from the map to get formal approval from your state agency that your day care home is area eligible.

PAST EVENT
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
2:00 - 3:00pm EDT More Details

Start the School Year Right with Innovative Approaches to Afterschool Meals

Set up kids for success this year by offering nutritious, free meals after school. One in five children in our country struggles with hunger, and a quarter of low-income parents worry that their kids don’t have enough to eat between lunch and breakfast the next day. Despite the need, new analysis from the No Kid Hungry Center for Best Practices shows that there are less than four afterschool meals served for every one hundred subsidized lunches served during the school year.

PAST EVENT
Thursday, July 28, 2016
2:00 - 3:00pm EDT More Details

State Legislative Sessions Wrap-Up

The Share Our Strength Advocacy Team reflects on the recently concluded 2016 state legislative sessions.