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Hannah Love
hannah@ecoliteracy.org
510.845.4595 ext 124 office
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Press Releases

June 29, 2020 California Kids Receive Essential Funding for Safe School Meals During Pandemic in State’s Final Budget	June 24, 2020 Summer Meals Participation Doubles for Many of California’s School Districts During COVID-19	January 10, 2020 Governor Newsom Proposes $70+ million for Healthy School Meals in 2020-21 Budget
June 29, 2017 Whole Kids Foundation® Launches Free Organic Education App, Helping Kids Discover the Meaning of Organic	May 29, 2017 Summer Meals with a California Twist	January 24, 2017 Freshly Prepared Today: 517,000 School Meals Made with California-Grown Food
April 7, 2016 Food Service Innovator Jennifer Gerard Joins the Center for Ecoliteracy	March 17, 2016 58 School Districts Statewide Celebrate Locally-Sourced Food This ‘California Thursday’	October 22, 2015 What’s on the ‘California Thursdays’ Menu for Six NorCal School Districts? Grass-Fed Beef!
October 20, 2015 Innovative California Thursdays program expands to more than 220 SD Unified Schools, fastest growing in state

Press Coverage

Television and Radio

January 27, 2017 New program brings fresh California produce to SLO schools NBC San Luis Obispo (KSBY-TV)	August 19, 2016 How Can Schools Make Lunches More Appealing to Teens? KQED-FM	April 14, 2016 New food program at Arvin Union School District NBC Kern County (KGET-TV)
March 17, 2016 Comiendo sano Univision Palm Springs	March 17, 2016 ‘’California Thursdays” program expands statewide CBS Central Coast (KION-TV)	March 16, 2016 Farm to fork program puts local food in school lunches ABC Sacramento (KXTV-TV)
February 25, 2016 Local school lunches entirely California grown ABC San Diego (KGTV-TV)

Print and Online

June 10, 2020 School lunches: Trying to keep kids fed during COVID-19 Capitol Weekly	June 5, 2020 School meals: More important this summer than ever California School Boards Association Blog	September 3, 2019 Rethinking School Food: A Systems Approach Green Schools Catalyst Quarterly
February 9, 2017 How California is Reinventing School Lunch University of California	January 27, 2017 Centralia school district in Buena Park will serve locally sourced meals at least once a week Orange County Register	January 25, 2017 Woodlake Unified to serve ‘California Thursdays’ The Sun Gazette
November 13, 2016 Fresh approach with farm-to-school meals in Oakland San Francisco Chronicle	November 7, 2016 “Boat-to-School” Programs Source Fresh Seafood for Students Civil Eats	August 12, 2016 Sustainable Fish in School Lunches Edible East Bay
April 4, 2016 Vista’s school lunches get a makeover Coast News Group	March 23, 2016 From farm to lunch table San Diego Union-Tribune	March 18, 2016 The battle to get local food into school cafeterias San Francisco Chronicle
March 18, 2016 California Thursdays Program Brings San Diego Food to San Diego Kids Live Well San Diego	March 17, 2016 PV High joins schools in 56 districts for ‘California Thursdays’ Watsonville Register-Pajaronian	March 16, 2016 ‘California Thursdays’ spreads to Santa Cruz County school districts Santa Cruz Sentinel
March 16, 2016 Local foods added to school menu Del Norte Triplicate	January 22, 2016 Oakland’s central kitchen to provide a bounty of fresh, locally sourced school meals East Bay Times

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