FoodCorps announces corporate funders for new Nourishing Futures initiative.

FoodCorps, a national nonprofit that partners with schools and communities to nourish children's health, education, and sense of belonging, has announced financial commitments from a coalition of businesses and other funders to support its Nourishing Futures initiative, a $250 million program that seeks to ensure that all 50 million U.S. students learn about food and have access to nourishing, free meals in school by 2030. The initiative, which will be funded through philanthropic partners including MacKenzie Scott, the Newman's Own Foundation, Inclusive Capital Partners Foundation and Walmart Foundation, among others, will accomplish its goal by partnering with schools and districts to advance their goals for food education and school nutrition, expanding FoodCorps programming to reach 500,000 students a year by 2030; preparing 1,000 BIMPOC (Black, Indigenous, Multiracial, People of Color) emerging leaders for mission-driven careers in the fields of food education and school nutrition; and mobilizing 1 million supporters for policies that expand free school meals, fund food educators, update garden, kitchen, and cafeteria infrastructure, strengthen local supply chains and support the food education and school nutrition workforce. [Extracted from the article]