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Resource | Research and Data Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program: State Implementation Progress, SY 2012–13: Report to Congress

This report responds to the requirement of PL 110-246 to assess the effectiveness of state and local efforts to directly certify children for free school meals. Direct certification is a process conducted by the states and by local educational agencies to certify eligible children for free meals without the need for household applications.

12/05/2013
Resource | Research and Data Enhanced Summer Food Service Program (eSFSP)

The eSFSP projects test changes to the existing structure and delivery mechanism of SFSP to determine if they lead to increased participation.

11/08/2013
Basic page Pilot/Grant Projects
09/09/2013
Basic page Healthy Incentives Pilot (HIP) Evaluation

The Food, Nutrition and Conservation Act of 2008 (also known as the Farm Bill) authorized funds to pilot test and rigorously evaluate the impact of financial incentives at the point-of-sale for the purchase of fruits, vegetables or other healthful foods on the diet quality of participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program FNS refers to this effort as the Healthy Incentives Pilot or HIP. HIP operated for 14 months in Hampden County, MA.

09/09/2013
Basic page Childhood Hunger Grants

In May 2011 the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, with funding from FNS, competitively awarded a first round of grants to five large and eight small projects in the amount of $2.45 million to qualified individuals and institutions to provide rigorous research that expands our understanding of hunger among children in the United States and the attendant policy implications.

09/09/2013
Basic page The Role of the WIC Program in Improving Peri-conceptional Nutrition: A Small Grants Program

The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) is managing a small-grants research program, funded by FNS. Through a competitive process, UCLA awarded seven grants in June 2012.

09/09/2013
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