Feeding America supports various federal food assistance programs that help people facing hunger in the United States. In addition to anti-hunger programs, Feeding America also works on federal tax policies that help get more food to food banks.
However, we realize it may seem a bit like alphabet soup with so many program acronyms. Let us help you decode it. Use our chart to learn how the food assistance programs differ and who they are each meant for. Then dig deeper into each program by following the linked program name or acronym.
Program descriptions
Name and Acronym | Brief Description |
|---|---|
Provides timely, targeted, and temporary benefits to low-income Americans to buy groceries. | |
Provides USDA commodities to families in need of short-term hunger relief through emergency food providers like food banks. | |
Provides food assistance for low-income seniors with a monthly package of healthy USDA commodities. | |
Provides nutritious meals and snacks to children and adults in designated child and adult care centers. | |
Provides nutritionally balanced lunch to qualified children each school day. | |
Provides nutritionally balanced breakfast to qualified children each school day. | |
Provides free meals and snacks to low-income children during the summer months. | |
Provides nutritious foods and nutrition education for low-income, at risk women, infants. |
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