City Harvest Programs » Advocacy
Current Advocacy Initiatives
Child Nutrition Reauthorization
As part of the NYC Alliance for Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR), City Harvest is working with other organizations and individuals in New York to ask our members of Congress to.make specific changes to the Child Nutrition Act. This legislation, currently up for reauthorization, sets rules and funding levels for school-based nutrition programs, such as the School Lunch and Breakfast Programs and Summer Food Service Program, as well as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). These programs bring over $350 million into New York City each year and feed over 860,000 NYC schoolchildren every day. Changes suggested by the NYC Alliance for CNR will improve federal child nutrition programs so that they can feed more children and provide more nutritious food.
