End Hunger Connecticut! (EHC!) is excited to announce the creation of our “Latest News” page. We are proud of our continued commitment to transparency, and we recently renewed our Guidestar Gold Transparency seal for 2023 to prove just that. As pandemic-era relief [...]
Photo: End Hunger Connecticut! Policy Director Lucy Nolan testifies to the Committee on Children in favor of SB 929, An Act Expanding School Meal Programs to Provide Free School Meals to All Students at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford on Tuesday, February 7, 2023. [...]
Phew! It’s been a couple of months! Right? While we take a collective breath, let's recap: We all sent our state representatives, senators and Governor messages supporting school meals for all (and you still can, again or for the first time here) We pushed for and were successful [...]
What are extra COVID SNAP benefits? SNAP Emergency Allotments (“extra COVID SNAP benefits”) was a temporary benefit program put in place in response to the public pandemic health emergency, with funding made available to states under the federal Families First Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020. [...]
Pandemic-era relief programs are phasing out, which includes the recent conclusion of the Emergency SNAP Allotments (“extra COVID SNAP benefits”). For the past three years, thanks to federal funding, families in CT and many other states have received additional SNAP benefits that they would not [...]
(Hartford, CT) – School Meals 4 All CT, a coalition of nearly two dozen food, hunger, school and health nonprofits, today called on Governor Lamont and the General Assembly to approve state funding to resume access to school meals for all students [...]
"End Hunger Connecticut! and the School Meals for All CT coalition are disappointed that the General Assembly has not yet taken action to fund the continuance of no-cost meals for students in schools. "Based on reports from school districts across the state, meal counts [...]
End Hunger Connecticut! (EHC!) is thrilled to announce the official hire of Julieth Callejas as permanent Executive Director. Callejas has served as EHC!’s Interim Executive Director since September 2021 and was recently unanimously selected by the organization’s Board of Directors to serve in the role [...]
Pictured from left to right: Dan Giacomi (DSS), Jason Jakubowski (CT Foodshare), Jennie Hirsch (CT Foodshare), Dr. Sara Bleich (USDA), Lizbeth Silbermann (USDA), Catherine Hallisey (CT FoodCorps), Gladys Mercado (Office of Congressman John Larson), Julieth Callejas (End Hunger CT!), Mayor Mike Walsh (East Hartford), Erin [...]
End Hunger Connecticut! (EHC!), New Haven and Hamden Public Schools, United Way of Greater New Haven, and community partners will join together in New Haven on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 to spread the word about free summer meals to community members throughout New Haven and [...]