2025 Food Insecurity Grant

Grants Help Feed Hungry Students

We're proud to announce that in our first year of this program, INAPEF members across the state were awarded $16,000 in grants to address food insecurity among students. With the generous support of our partners, we can help ensure that even more children have access to nutritious meals in 2025! Please join us in the fight against food insecurity in Indiana's public schools!

The following education foundations were selected as grant recipients in 2024:

● $5,000 to Perry Township Education Foundation for a pilot program to provide weekend food support and backpacks, a collaboration with student services and the special education department

● $3,000 to Franklin Education Connection to supplement in some buildings, and restart in others, a weekend food backpack program

● $2,000 to Bremen Partnership for Education to purchase food for Bremen Bags, a weekend food program, and for healthy snacks for secretaries, counselors, and tutors to distribute at their discretion

● $2,000 to Garrett-Keyser-Butler Education Foundation to implement a new program to supply the resource room with nutritional snacks and easily prepared meal items for students to take home over the weekend

● $2,000 to Greenwood Education Foundation to supply healthy classroom snacks to students already receiving free or reduced lunches

Through this collaborative effort, these education foundations will receive vital support to combat food insecurity within their districts. The grants will enable schools to provide nutritious meals to students in need, ensuring that every child has access to adequate food resources for their well-being and academic success.

2025

Donation goal

Collected:	$12,000.00
Goal:	$25,000.00

48%

Did you Know?

Children facing food insecurity often do worse in school. Food insecurity negatively affects their ability to concentrate and achieve academically.
Children facing food insecurity often struggle with social and behavioral problems. Without proper nutrition, they have less energy for complex social interactions, cannot effectively adapt to environmental stress and often feel physically unwell.

Indiana Hunger Statistics

1 in 9 (10.8%) Hoosiers and 1 in 7 (14.4%) children are food insecure.
25% of Marion County residents are food insecure.
The highest child food insecurity rate is found in Fayette County at 26.1 percent
32 percent of Indiana’s food insecure have income above 185 percent of the Federal Poverty Level and are being served only by charitable hunger relief efforts as they are ineligible for federal nutrition programs.

Thank you Sponsors!

Congratulations to our 2024 Food Insecurity
Grant Recipients!