WIC Breastfeeding Performance Bonus Awards build on the WIC program’s longstanding efforts to promote breastfeeding. These awards are intended to recognize state agencies that demonstrate successful breastfeeding promotion and support efforts. The Child Nutrition Act provided funding for breastfeeding performance bonuses to state agencies that demonstrate either the highest rate of fully breastfed infants or the greatest improvement of fully breastfed infants.
2025 Awards
In FY 2025, we awarded a total of $2 million to 15 state agencies with the greatest improvement in breastfeeding rates of fully breastfed infants during FY 2024. The Awardees are listed in alphabetical order:
- Acoma-Canoncito-Laguna
- Alaska
- California
- Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
- Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
- Connecticut
- Hawaii
- Montana
- New Jersey
- North Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Osage Nation
- Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Reservation
- Three Affiliated Tribes
- Wisconsin
We look forward to recognizing local and state agencies’ success next year!