MARQUETTE — The Michigan Division of Training has introduced an extra 29 grantees for 10 Cents A Meal for Michigan’s Children & Farms, after reopening the matching grant program for a second utility window.
10 Cents a Meal, Michigan’s state-funded farm-to-institution grant supplies matching incentive funding as much as 10 cents per meal to buy and serve Michigan-grown fruits, greens and legumes.
The grant has gone from a regional pilot program in 2016 to being accessible to candidates statewide for the 2020-21 faculty yr. The most recent funding of $5 million from the state “affirms the significance of 10 Cents a Meal in offering recent, wholesome native fruits, greens and dry beans for Michigan’s youngsters,” organizers stated.
“One among my proudest accomplishments throughout my legislative tenure is the expansion of 10 Cents a Meal, particularly right here in northern Michigan and the Higher Peninsula. This program is critically necessary in getting recent Michigan vegetables and fruit to our college students and we now have a complete of 257 grantees throughout the state. I’m thrilled to see Cheboygan Space Faculties, Harbor Springs Faculty District, Inland Lakes Faculties and Brimley Space Faculties be a part of as 10 Cents a Meal grantees,” state Sen. Wayne Schmidt, R-Traverse Metropolis, stated in an announcement.
The grant is presently in its second yr of statewide availability, and there at the moment are 257 grantees for the 2021-22 faculty yr, representing over 585,000 youngsters. In comparison with final yr’s 143 grantees, this system has seen a virtually 80% enhance in grant recipients in a single yr.
10 Cents a Meal is open to high school districts — public, public faculty academies or non-public — and nonschool sponsors of USDA Little one Diet Packages corresponding to residential little one care establishments, little one care facilities and after-school packages collaborating within the Summer season Meals Service Program, Nationwide Faculty Lunch Program and the Little one and Grownup Care Meals Program.
“It’s so encouraging to see this promising pattern that Michigan’s youngest youngsters of all earnings ranges, from Detroit to the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula, are benefiting from the excessive dietary high quality of regionally grown meals,” Groundwork Heart for Resilient Communities coverage specialist Nathan Medina stated in an announcement.
Groundwork is a key MDE companion of the ten Cents a Meal program.
The 29 new grantees embody Freeland Group Faculty District, White Cloud Public Faculties, Every day Shepherd Little one Care Heart, Boys And Ladies Membership Benton Harbor, Harbor Springs Faculty District, Fremont Public Faculty District, Affiliation For Little one Improvement, Ludington Space Faculty District, Grand Rapids Metropolitan YMCA, Charlotte Public Faculties, Dee’s Little Angels Little one Care Heart, Bambi Land Little one Care, Vivid Beginnings, Newaygo Public Faculty District, Youngsters’s Paradise Studying Heart, Inc., Orchard Hill Reformed Church, Napoleon Group Faculties, Summerfield Faculties, Springport Public Faculties, Inland Lakes Faculties, Cheboygan Space Faculties, Capac Group Faculties, Kalkaska Public Faculties, Brimley Space Faculties, Fruitport Group Faculties, Little one Star Improvement Heart, A & W Day Care Heart, Steepletown Neighborhood Companies, and Village Of Shiny Stars Little one Care.
For extra details about this system, go to the ten Cents a Meal web site at www.tencentsmichigan.org.
