Action Needed - Sign On to Child Nutrition Letter

Dear Partners,                                            

NEACH is co-sponsoring a sign-on letter with the New England Consortium (NEC) that urges Congress to act swiftly and pass a strong child nutrition reauthorization (CNR) bill. The letter asks the New England delegation in the House of Representatives to work with leadership to ensure that a final bill is passed and ready for the President's signature by September 30, 2010, when the current law expires. The federal nutrition programs that will be reauthorized through this legislation have the potential to promote childhood health, reduce childhood hunger and obesity, and combat the effects of child poverty by greatly improving access to existing child nutrition programs.

Action Steps

  1. Please click here to sign your organization on to this letter. All sign-ons are due by 5:00 P.M. on Thursday, September 9. If you have any questions, please contact Maia Fedyszyn at mfedyszyn@communitycatalyst.org or (617) 275-2871.

  2. Please forward this alert on to your larger networks. We are looking to collect as many sign-ons as possible.

Thank you for all of the work you continue to do to urge Congress to pass a strong CNR bill.

Sincerely,

Amy Rosenthal
Project Director

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