Eat.

Ensuring all Oakland students have access to the nutritious meals they need to be healthy and thrive.

77%

of OUSD students qualify for free and reduced price lunch

Hunger rates in America doubled during the pandemic, with nearly 14 million kids going hungry every day. In Oakland, 37% of kids live in homes that are food insecure with children of color disproportionately affected.
Transform the school meal system by leading a multi-year initiative to help Oakland Unified School District’s new Central Kitchen become fully operational and able to provide 6 million+ quality school meals annually to students, while also enhancing elementary and middle school cafeterias to be fun, dignified places where kids can eat, learn, and spend time with friends.

Eat. Learn. Play. in the Community

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Kaiser Permanente Expands Partnership with Eat. Learn. Play. to Provide Healthy Meals and Safe Places for Oakland Students to Play

Creating Partnerships at the Heart of Student Food Access

Women’s History Month Spotlight | Maria Alderete

Stephen and Ayesha Curry Launch The Eat. Learn. Play. Bus, Their Foundation’s State-of-the-art Mobile Resource Center

Eat. Learn. Play. Named Beneficiary of Million Meals Tour

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Providing Nutritious Meals

To transform the school food system — where students often eat two or three meals a day — We are helping to support OUSD’s Central Kitchen, Education Center and Instructional Garden & Farm (The Center) in becoming fully operational with the goal of providing over 6 million healthy, scratched-cooked school meals every year to the district’s nearly 35,000 students and 85 schools.

Meeting Families Where They Are

To provide continued support to the Oakland community and our school partners, we are continuing to utilize the Eat. Learn. Play. Bus as a mobile resource center to provide 25,000 nutritious meals and 100,000 culturally-affirming books annually to Oakland youth and their families. This work includes continuing to work with the Alameda County Community Food Bank and local Oakland restaurants to provide two million meals, produce and grocery staples to Oakland students and families experiencing hunger, including over the weekends and during the summer.

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Advocate for Kid- Partisan Policies

We are continuing to fight hunger locally, while also using the power of our platform and the Currys’ voices to fight for state and federal nutrition programs that provide a lifeline for millions of kids and families. This year, Stephen and Ayesha were appointed to the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, & Nutrition – a federal advisory committee that aims to promote healthy, accessible eating and physical activity for all Americans, regardless of background or ability. Through their roles, we will elevate community voices and local innovations to a national stage and impact pro-kid policies to improve the lives of millions of kids across the country.

Community Partners

Eat. Learn. Play. continues working on the frontlines with Alameda County Community Food Bank and partners such as Brigaid, Community Kitchens, No Kid Hungry, Trust for Public Land, TomKat Foundation and UC Berkeley.

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