Newsletter

Hunger Task Force publishes a quarterly newsletter featuring news, events and updates about all things Free & Local. From exciting events to partner highlights, and from personal stories to getting involved, the Hunger Task Force newsletter is an opportunity to share this anti-hunger work with you.

Click on the links below to read through the most recently published newsletters.

Annual Report

Each year, Hunger Task Force updates the annual report for the fiscal year running October through September. Take a look at the FY2017-18 Annual Report below to see what Hunger Task Force accomplished over the past year.

Research Publications

School Breakfast Report

Each year, Hunger Task Force creates and prepares the Wisconsin School Breakfast Report, which analyzes access to and participation in school breakfast throughout the state. The purpose of the School Breakfast report is to help connect districts to resources that help their students, and to empower districts to share solutions directly with each other.

The 2017-18 School Breakfast Report is out now! See how your child’s or local school district measure up against others in Wisconsin.

The report also contains report cards for the 40 public school districts with the highest number of free and reduced price meal eligible students in the state. Looking for your school district’s report card? Contact Maureen Fitzgerald at maureen@hungertaskforce.org.

SNAPShots

Every month, Hunger Task Force creates a SNAPShot for each county and for the state. SNAPShots report the number of FoodShare recipients, the average monthly benefit, poverty statistics and unemployment percentages in that county. This SNAPShot is created to provide a clear and concise report on publicly available data.

Healthy Kids Cookbook

Each year, Hunger Task Force’s Dietitian Educator works with three Milwaukee Public Schools to teach children in grades three through five the importance of nutrition and healthy eating. As part of the annual curriculum, the students take regular field trips to the Hunger Task Force Farm to learn how plants grow and where fruits and vegetables come from.

In addition to the hands-on education the students receive in the Student Garden, the Dietitian Educator also provides cooking lessons at the end of each class. At the beginning of the year, students are given a Healthy Kids Cookbook that they then work through together as a group.

The Healthy Kids Cookbook includes easy and fun-to-make recipes for children of all ages and backgrounds. They are also translated into Spanish. Check out the recipes below!

Well Fed Means Less Lead

In 2018, Hunger Task Force co-chaired a community group called the Milwaukee Nutrition & Lead Task Force to develop a campaign that would bring awareness to the presence of lead in Milwaukee’s neighborhoods.

The Well Fed Means Less Lead campaign was created to establish public awareness on the dangers of lead in paint, water and soil, as well as provide self-help information on avoiding lead exposure, and on how specific nutrients are protective of the dangers of lead. Read the Campaign Summary Report below to learn more about Well Fed Means Less Lead and how to create a replicable campaign in other at-risk lead communities.