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Sazón y Salud: Goya apoya al programa nutricional MiPlato

June 25, 2012 Jessica Larson, USDA Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Goya, la compañía hispana de comida más grande en los Estados Unidos, es parte de la campaña de la Primera Dama Michelle Obama ¡A Moverse! (Let’s Move!) la cual está enfocada en motivar a los padres de familia a tener una vida saludable para ellos y sus familias. Al asociarse con el nuevo ícono...

Spanish Food and Nutrition Initiatives

Being All You Can Bean with Goya

June 25, 2012 Jessica Larson, USDA Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Goya, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States, is part of the First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! movement to empower parents to make healthy choices for themselves and their families. It is partnering with USDA’s new icon, MyPlate/MiPlato, that reminds consumers to build...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

USDA Highlights Efforts to Give Tribes the Tools to Improve Basic Services

June 25, 2012 Janie Hipp, Senior Advisor to Secretary Vilsack, Office of Tribal Relations

When you woke up this morning, chances are you turned on a light, took a shower in your bathroom, brushed your teeth with running water and checked the Internet. For too many people in Indian Country, this simple daily process is currently unattainable. Services most Americans take for granted are...

Rural

USDA RD helps A Small Arizona Town Improve Street Safety

June 25, 2012 Dianna Jennings Arizona Rural Development Special Projects Coordinator

A construction worker at the curb and gutter project in the Yaqui community of Guadalupe, Arizona. The project was funded in part with a Rural Development Community Facilities grant. There is something sweet and quaint about the small town of Guadalupe, Arizona. The 5,000 plus residents are mostly...

Rural

Programa de Servicios de Alimentos de Verano Cubre Necesidades en el Centro Healing Waters en Colorado

June 25, 2012 Kevin Concannon, Subsecretario Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services

Siendo partícipe en la inauguración de la semana nacional dedicada al Programa de Alimentos de Verano (SFSP, por sus siglas en inglés) que se llevo a cabo del 11 al 15 de Junio, estuve en Denver, Colorado, donde visité dos centros de comida estupendos.

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

Summer Food Service Program Fills Need at Healing Waters Center in Colorado

June 25, 2012 Kevin Concannon
Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services

As part of the national Summer Food Service Program Kickoff (SFSP) Week June 11-15, I was in Denver, Colorado, and visited two great Colorado SFSP sites. One of those sites was in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, just west of downtown Denver. Healing Waters Family Center has a 90 percent Hispanic congregation...

Food and Nutrition Health and Safety Initiatives

USDA and Habitat for Humanity Partnership Builds Home for Rural Minnesota Family

June 18, 2012 Adam Czech, USDA Minnesota Public Information Officer

A unique partnership between USDA Rural Development and Habitat for Humanity of Douglas County, Minn., (HFHDC) has helped make Cassandra Braford a proud new homeowner. Braford, a waitress, recently moved into her home in Alexandria, Minn., with her children, Ramsey and Riyada, and her mother, Jean...

Rural

Children in the Rio Grande Valley Enjoy Summer Food and Fun

June 18, 2012 Georgina Castillo, public affairs specialist, FNS Southwest Region

As summer time begins, I think of children playing with their friends and having a great time as they enjoy their vacation from school. I am also very aware that some children may go hungry during the summer months. Fortunately for children in the Rio Grande Valley on June 1, Catholic Charities...

Food and Nutrition

Dummy Power Lines Attract Doves to Sumter National Forest Dove Fields

June 18, 2012 Jeff Magniez, Sumter National Forest

High above the ground in a bucket truck, Blue Ridge Electric Co-op Lineman David Brown attaches a power line to a newly erected pole above the green fields of the Sumter National Forest’s Long Creek dove field. But instead of providing electric service to an outbuilding or an adjacent housing...

Forestry

Connect Your Community With the Summer Food Service Program!

June 18, 2012 Christina Martinez, Emerson National Hunger Fellow, USDA Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Do you know about the resources USDA has to help feed hungry children over the summer? The USDA Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships hosted a webinar as part of their Together We Can Partnership Series about the Summer Food Service Program to help connect individuals and...

Food and Nutrition