Food Outreach

The new summer EBT program will give an extra $120 to eligible school-age kids. But, families in Missouri and Kansas probably won’t get the money until late summer or fall.

The program would provide $40 in food benefits for each month an eligible child is on summer break, loaded onto a card that can be used like a debit card to purchase groceries. Missouri's decision is nonbinding, and the state now has until Feb. 15 to submit a detailed plan to the federal government.

Roughly 429,000 Missouri children would be eligible to receive $51.5 million in food benefits next summer if the state chooses to participate in the federal program.

A new study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children was underutilized. In 2021, it served only about half the number of those who qualified.

Over a year after a lawsuit alleged the state’s ‘dysfunctional’ SNAP call center violates federal law, low-income Missourians still face automatic disconnections and wait times of around an hour.

Feed My People will expand its services in St. Louis County and Jefferson County with help from a $250,000 grant. The Economic Development Corporation of Jefferson County awarded the money from federal COVID-19 relief funds.

The district has thousands of students who lack stable housing. Events like these are part of an effort to reach families and break down stigma.

Food Outreach provides nutritious meals to people living with cancer or HIV. Now the nonprofit is piloting a project to help veterans with uncontrolled diabetes.

Open five days a week, the Free Breakfast Program is a new initiative to feed children in north St. Louis during the summer. The program aims to provide campers at the Youth and Family Center with access to hot and healthy meals and is based on a program the Black Panther Party ran during the 1970s.

Foodshed.io is testing its technology in the region through a deal with Schnucks Markets. It also has agreements with more than two dozen area farms with plans to add more.