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Vending, Student Stores, Concessions
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Key Resources

Vending

Suggested vending products (PDF)
List developed by Winner's Circle and the WA State Access to Healthy Foods Coalition.

Nutrition Sen$e Toolkit
Tools for providing and promoting healthful foods and beverages at student-run stores. Developed by the Montana Team Nutrition (2005)

Healthy Beverage Tool Kit
Tools for promoting healthy beverage consumption at school. From the Food Trust.

Vending - Resources to Improve Schools
Action for Healthy Kids database links to resources and information on what's working in schools.

Fundraising

Show Me the Money: A Guide to Selling Healthy Food at Schools
A toolkit for helping schools overcome challenges they experience when implementing healthy food guidelines in their nutrition services, school stores, fundraising events, and vending machines. Includes a one page overview and a flyer.

Sweet Deal:School Fundraising Can be Healthy and Profitable (PDF)
Report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Examines unhealthy fundraising practices and offers strategies for healthy product and event fundraisers. (2007)

Food Fundraising at School Policy Brief (PDF)
From California's Obesity Crisis: Focus on Solutions - What Schools Can Do. (2004)

Farm Raisers' Make Cents for Schools -- It’s Better Than a Candy Sale, Parents Say
Article on Michigan elementary school fundraiser that sold local farm products instead of candy. (2006)

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Related Topics

Nutrition Standards for Food and Beverages in Schools
Competitive Foods - Research and Reports
Food and Beverage Marketing
Financial Impact of Competitive Food Policies/Revenue Replacement

 

 
 
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