Full Plates in the News

Learn more about the work of Full Plates through recent media coverage:

• Full Plates Full Potential awarded $10 million to bring local ingredients to school menus Portland Press Herald
• Bill would require Maine schools to allow students 30 minutes to eat lunch Portland Press Herald
• Free school lunches in Maine alleviate food insecurity and tap into local sources Maine Public
• Maine continues free school meals even though federal program is ending NPR
• Educators say free meals have changed attitudes in Maine’s school cafeterias Maine Public
• Free meal programs help Maine kids enjoy summer to the fullest Portland Press Herald
• Mt. Blue High School opens the Free Store, expands food pantry Daily Bulldog
• Video: Universal Free Lunch in Maine Plate the State
• Students take on challenge of food insecurity in their own school cafeterias News Center Maine
• The Wrap: Portland students taste-test African food, Silly’s reinvents itself, and raising money for Ukraine Portland Press Herald
• In a Small Island in Maine, Heroes Serve School Meals No Kid Hungry
• After growing up hungry in Portland, Cognac entrepreneurs help fight food insecurity in Maine Portland Press Herald
• Teamwork enables Rumford-based school district to expand meal deliveries Sun Journal
• How Maine is trying to take food insecurity off kids’ plates PBS News Hour

For media inquiries, contact:
Justin Strasburger
jstras@fullplates.org