FY25_Farm to School Grant_Activities Indicators Tracker_Action Planning.docx
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The provided document is an Action Planning Project Activities/Indicators Tracker related to a FY2025 Farm to School Grant opportunity from the USDA Food and Nutrition Service. The document outlines the required activities, tasks, responsible parties, timelines, and performance indicators for developing a comprehensive Farm to School Action Plan. Key details include:
The action plan must identify community needs, include local sourcing and agricultural education activities, address relevant health/safety requirements, detail how local foods will be incorporated, outline promotion and sustainability plans, and include an evaluation strategy. Grantees are required to attend training events, convene a diverse planning team, and compile a final action plan.
The related FY2025 Farm to School Grant opportunity is a 24-month grant program offering up to $50,000 in funding. Eligible applicants include schools, Tribal organizations, agricultural producers, non-profits, and local agencies with a commitment to federal Child Nutrition Programs. Applicants must provide at least 25% matching funds. This is one of three FY2025 Farm to School Grant tracks, with the others focused on Agricultural Education and Edible Gardens.
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Action Planning Project Activities/Indicators Tracker Objective: Develop a Farm to School Action Plan to facilitate launching or scaling farm to school activities A: Required Activity (Do not edit)
| B: List tasks required to accomplish activity |
| C: Responsible party for each task |
| D: Proposed Timeline |
(Month, year – Month, year) E: Indicators(s)
Attend at least one national or regional-level networking and training event.
Number attended
Identify and regularly convene the farm to school planning team, with diverse leadership and membership that reflects the community served.
Number and types of partner organizations
Conduct an inclusive and comprehensive action planning process, which might include defining a vision and mission, conducting a SWOT analysis, holding key informant interviews, attending trainings, visiting other farm to school programs, conducting pilots or trial runs, brainstorming activities, or prioritizing activities. See the USDA Farm to School Planning Toolkit for inspiration.
Draft a plan that: identifies at least one need in the community that the project will address; includes both local sourcing and agricultural education activities; identifies any relevant State and/or local health and food safety requirements and develops compliance strategies/procedures; determines how local foods will be incorporated at the eligible school(s) or service site(s); determines how delivery, processing, and storage of local foods will take place; determines how project partners will promote the farm to school program; identifies diverse funding and other resources to ensure the project’s sustainability; and includes an evaluation plan.
Number of collaborating CNP sites by level: CACFP (age 0 – pre-k), primary (grades k-5), secondary (grades 6-12
Compile and share a final action plan that incorporates both local sourcing and agricultural education components, and may include farm to school goals, activities, funding, timelines, evaluation strategies, and partners.
Number of CACFP (age 0 – pre-k) students, primary students (grades k-5), secondary students (grades 6-12) impacted Dollar value of local foods purchased by product type: fruit, vegetables, fluid milk, other dairy, protein, grains (including baked goods), other
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