Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Food Assistance Links & Resources

Direct links to the food stamp site -
USDA Food & Nutrition ServiceFrequently asked questions: http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/faqs.htmApplicants and recipients http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/applicant_recipients/default.htm

Food Banks in the United States
http://www.wadv.org/foodbank.htm

Modest Needs is a non-profit, tax-exempt philanthropic organization that began as one man's personal project in March of 2002. Since that time, Modest Needs has become a community of unlikely philanthropists dedicated to helping others as best we can with what we have.
http://www.modestneeds.org/

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Lunch/Default.htm

Touched Twice provides free clinics and more to the less fortunate.many of the clinics provide free food, clothing, dental and medicalcare, free haircuts, free legal, financial and spiritual advice. freeclinics located in the US.
http://www.touchedtwice.org/index.html

WIC - Women Infant Children
http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic