About the Team
No Kid Hungry
No child should go hungry in America. But millions of kids in the United States live with hunger. No Kid Hungry is working to end childhood hunger by helping launch and improve programs that give all kids the healthy food they need to thrive. This is a problem we know how to solve. No Kid Hungry is a campaign of Share Our Strength, an organization committed to ending hunger and poverty.
Center for Best Practices
The Center for Best Practices for No Kid Hungry creates and shares resources and tools designed to end childhood hunger. The innovation portfolio includes strategies and products that, like this Guide, are intended to meet the needs of families facing economic insecurity and those that service them and improve the user experience of federal nutrition programs.
Food and Nutrition Services
FNS directors from across the country were selected to join an Innovation Cohort. They provided guidance on the tools that they have used and would be useful to them in engaging their communities.
Tiffany Blackwell, Algiers Charter Schools Association
Simeon Murphey, Lincoln County School District
Shannon Solomon, Aurora Public Schools
Brian Wieher, Kansas City Public Schools
Brenda Jellison, West Contra Costa Unified School District
Kaitlin Tauriainan, Ashwaubenon School District
We are also grateful for the insights and recommendations of food and nutrition services colleagues throughout the country who are part of the No Kid Hungry network.
IDEO
A firm specializing in human-centered design, provided guidance on the initial prototype. Their Design Thinking for Educators and School Retool projects informed this effort.
Other Inspiration
Liberatory design, equity-centered community design, and service design are other design approaches that influenced this work and we greatly admire School Retool and FoodCorps’ Our Cafeteria Project.
Thank you to our colleagues at No Kid Hungry — in design, campaigns, research, training — who provided invaluable guidance throughout.
Kaitlin Tauriainan, Ashwaubenon School District