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Mohonasen awarded a $2,000 grant to enhance Bradt lunch line
Sept. 14, 2011
Mohonasen Food Service Supervisor Kim Gagnon recently received a $2,000 Fuel Up Breakfast Grant from the National Dairy Council and General Mills. The funding will be used to purchase a cold food counter, allowing for a “grab and go” breakfast option at Bradt Primary School.
"With this funding, we will be able to make the Bradt lunch line longer and all at the same height. This will make it more suitable for this age group and more efficient during breakfast time," Gagnon said.
Forence Selin of the American Dairy Association visited Bradt on Sept. 14 to present Gagnon with the grant award.
A total of $100,000 in funding was awarded to
39 schools nationwide through this grant program, to help build or
expand breakfast programs for the 2011-12 school year. Schools that
received breakfast
grants during the 2010-11 school year reported an
average increase of 58 percent in overall daily breakfast participation from the programs they were able to fund with the
grant dollars.
“We’re proud to award Mohonasen with a Fuel Up Breakfast Grant,” said Alyca Judge, K-12 marketing manager for General Mills Foodservice. “Through these grants we can help schools improve student access to high-quality, nourishing foods through breakfast in the classroom, grab-and-go breakfast from a cart or a second chance breakfast after the first class period. ”
The Fuel Up Breakfast Grant is available to
schools within the United States who participate in the National
School Breakfast Program and are enrolled in the National Dairy
Council “Fuel Up to Play 60” program. Fuel Up to Play 60 is a
partnership between the National Dairy Council and the National
Football League, in collaboration with the United States Department
of Agriculture. The program
empowers youth to take action to improve
nutrition and physical activity at their school and for their own
health.
A complete list of grant recipients is available here.
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