Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)

Photograph - Student eating lunch.

The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) was established to ensure that low-income children continue to receive nutritious meals when school is not in session. Free meals, that meet Federal nutrition guidelines, are provided to all children 18 years old and under at approved SFSP sites in areas with significant concentrations of low-income children.

How to Get Involved

	Find Free Summer Meals for Children in Your Community Call 1-866-3-HUNGRY or 1-877-8-HAMBRE (for Spanish speakers) and a live operator will tell you where the closest sites serving free, nutritious summer meals are located . Or visit www.whyhunger.org/findfood to locate sites using an online map.
	Schools, Organizations, and Local Government Entities Learn how to become a SFSP site or sponsor and serve free summer meals to hungry children in your community. Current SFSP sponsors can visit our Managing SFSP page to learn how to improve program operation and get the latest policy memos.
	Raise Awareness in Your Community Learn how you can spread the word about free summer meals in your community. Our resources include customizable fliers and handouts, an innovative strategies library, training videos, and radio PSAs. You don’t need to be a site or sponsor to use these resources; anybody can help raise awareness of summer meals!
	Contact Your State Contact your State agency to apply to become a sponsor, to become be a summer feeding site, or to learn about the many ways you can get involved with summer meals. Although SFSP is a federally-funded program, you State is responsible for administering the program and will be able to answer all your questions.
	Training Videos Watch and listen to SFSP sponsors, sites, volunteers, and state agencies from around the country talk about how they got started with SFSP and what it has meant to their community.
	What’s New! Get the latest news and e-mail updates.