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Resource | Research and Data WIC and FMNP Modernization Annual Evaluation Report - 2025

This second annual report of the WIC and FMNP Modernization Evaluation provides an overview of modernization efforts underway and highlights early implementation findings, covering activities through December 2025.

09/08/2026
Resource | Research Reports School Food Preparation Study Final Briefs

These briefs share the findings from the USDA School Food Preparation Study.

09/03/2026
Resource | Report to Congress Fiscal Year 2024 USDA Nutrition Education Coordination Report to Congress

The USDA Nutrition Education Report to Congress Fiscal Year 2024 offers a description of nutrition education within the United States Department of Agriculture and a summary of coordinated nutrition education activities completed from October 2023 through September 2024.

04/23/2026
Resource | Research and Data School Meal Program Operations, School Year 2022-23

We regularly collect information about the school meal programs and how they operate from the people who know best – the state agencies that oversee the programs in each state and territory and the school food authorities that manage the programs locally in one or more schools. 

03/24/2026
Resource | Research and Data Food Distribution Program Tables

Food distribution program data.

12/23/2025
Basic page Study Series: WIC & FMNP Modernization Evaluation

The WIC and FMNP Modernization Evaluation provides a comprehensive look at how we are working with WIC state agencies, local agencies, and other partners to modernize WIC and the Farmers' Market Nutrition Program. 

04/21/2025
Resource | Research and Data WIC and FMNP Modernization Annual Evaluation Report - 2024

The WIC and FMNP Modernization Evaluation tracks the progress and outcomes of program modernization efforts funded by Congress in 2021. This first annual report provides an overview of the WIC and FMNP modernization efforts underway and highlights early implementation findings, covering activities from September 2022 - September 2024.

04/21/2025
Resource | Research and Data Evaluation of the Team Nutrition E-STAR Training Program

In 2019, USDA’s Team Nutrition awarded a training grant to the Michigan Department of Education to implement a two-year training program for School Nutrition Managers called E-STAR. E-STAR is intended to improve school meal quality and student perceptions of meal quality. This study examined how the grantee implemented E-STAR, participant engagement, and facilitators and barriers to engagement. 

07/30/2024
Data Visualization
WIC and FMNP Modernization Dashboard

WIC has been serving families for more than 50 years. To ensure that WIC continues to get results, the program must modernize. 

04/04/2024
Resource | Research and Data | Demonstrations Evaluation of the USDA Summer EBT Demonstrations: Lessons Learned From More Than a Decade of Research

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 authorized Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (Summer EBT) as a permanent federal food assistance entitlement program beginning in summer 2024. Summer EBT has been tested through evaluations of demonstration projects since 2011. With pending implementation of this new program, this is an appropriate time to reflect on what USDA, FNA research has learned through more than a decade of study.

03/12/2024
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