Let’s Celebrate! Connecting Kids to Meals was awarded the Turnip the Beet Bronze Award by U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) for its Summer Meal Program to feed thousands of kids. FNS awarded 84 summer meal sponsors nationwide with Turnip the Beet awards in 2021. There were only 4 Ohio organizations and CKM was one of them! Click HERE … Read More
New Community Partner
Connecting Kids to Meals is thrilled to announce our partnership with Taylor Automotive Group. To all the folks at Taylor, thank you for sharing in our mission to provide low-income and under-served kids with nutritious meals! View full video: Taylor Automotive & Connecting Kids To Meals
25th Annual YWCA Milestones: A Tribute to Women
We are proud to have our very own Wendi Huntley, Connecting Kids to Meals President, honored at this years Milestones: A Tribute to Women live virtual event. If you missed hearing the amazing stories of some of Northwest Ohio’s most engaging and influential women and learn from their vast experience in philanthropy, corporate leadership, the arts, education, government, social services and science, … Read More
Wendi Huntley, president of Connecting Kids To Meals, speaks with Moms Everyday
Toledo is blessed to have an agency that fights childhood hunger all year long. “We provide meals to our partners throughout the community, over 185 of them, during our after school programming hours and throughout the entire summer,” says Wendi Huntley, president of Connecting Kids to Meals. It takes a village to fight childhood hunger, and Connecting Kids to Meals … Read More
Snapshots from Summer Meals
The summer meals program has come to a close for this year, and Connecting Kids to Meals saw wild success. Below are pictures from three different locations: Crim Elementary, Rossford, and North Baltimore! The Crim Elementary program broke records. Bobby Hoffman, Senior Team Leader of CLC of Bowling Green at Crim Elementary stated, “We take great pride in serving our children, and with the help of … Read More