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Resource | Technical Assistance FY 21 Non-competitive Technology Innovation Grant (nTIG) Award Summaries

State agency summaries for the non-competitive Technology Innovation Grants (nTIGs) awarded FY 21.

01/30/2024
Resource | Technical Assistance & Guidance Team Nutrition Training Grants FY 2017 Highlights

State agencies used these grants to implement and evaluate nutrition education, meal service training, and environmental changes in school or child care settings. This booklet showcases only a small portion of the wide array of grantee activities conducted.

FNS-991
09/26/2023
Resource | Grants FY 2023 Team Nutrition Grant Supporting Nutrition Education for School-Aged Children

On Aug.16, 2023, FNS announced the award of $9.4 million in federal funding for the FY 2023 Team Nutrition Grant for Supporting Nutrition Education for School-Aged Children.

08/16/2023
Resource | Technical Assistance & Guidance Team Nutrition Training Grants

New grant opportunity available for State agencies that administer the National School Lunch Program and/or Child and Adult Care Food Program At-Risk Afterschool Meals and Outside School Hours Care Centers and School Food Authorities.

08/16/2023
Resource | Webinars/Videos FY23 Team Nutrition Grant Supporting Nutrition Education for School-Aged Children Informational Webinar

This webinar provides an overview of the FY 2023 Team Nutrition Grant Supporting Nutrition Education for School Aged Children funding opportunity, including information about eligibility, application process, application requirements, scoring criteria, and more.

04/26/2023
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2021-0050 Pandemic EBT – Summer 2021

In an effort to make the distribution of P-EBT benefits to eligible children as efficient as possible, USDA has developed a simple P-EBT summer plan template. The template allows states to elect a USDA-determined standard benefit that relieves states of the burden of determining their own benefit levels based on state-specific school district calendars.

04/26/2021
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2021-0044 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Specific Meal Pattern Flexibility in the CACFP for SY 2021-22

Under this waiver, CACFP operators in states that elect to be subject to this waiver may serve meals that do not meet specified meal pattern requirements during the public health emergency due to COVID-19. 

COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #91
04/20/2021
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2021-0050 Child Nutrition Nationwide Waiver Update for SY 2021-22

This memo announces a new suite of child nutrition program nationwide waivers and flexibilities to support a successful school reopening in school year 2021-22.

COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #84
04/20/2021
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2021-0049 Nationwide Waiver of Onsite Monitoring Requirements for Sponsors in the Child and Adult Care Food Program – EXTENSION

FNS waives, for all CACFP sponsoring organizations, that CACFP monitoring requirements be conducted onsite. To ensure program integrity during this time, sponsoring organizations should continue monitoring activities of program operations offsite. This waiver extends the Nationwide Waiver of Monitoring Requirements for Sponsors in the CACFP granted on Aug. 4, 2020 that expires on Sept. 30, 2021. 

COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #96
04/20/2021
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2021-0048 Nationwide Waiver of Onsite Monitoring Requirements for State Agencies in the Child and Adult Care Food Program – Extension 3

FNS waives, for all state agencies, that CACFP monitoring requirements of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act be conducted onsite. To ensure program integrity during this time, state agencies should continue monitoring activities of program operations offsite. This waiver extends the Nationwide Waiver of Monitoring Requirements for State Agencies in the Child and Adult Care Food Program – EXTENSION 2 granted on Aug. 4, 2020 that expires on Sept. 30, 2021. 

COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #95
04/20/2021
Page updated: October 14, 2021