Action Alert: Contact Your Senator Today to Support Farm to School FRESH Grant Funding!

Contact your Senator TODAY and ask them to co-sponsor amendment #658 to level fund Food Literacy and the Farm to School FRESH Grant Program in the FY2025 budget . 

On May 7th, the Senate Ways and Means Committee released their FY25 budget and it unfortunately did not include funding for the Farm to School FRESH Grants. Senator Lewis filed an amendment to sustain funding for Food Literacy and the FRESH Grant program in the FY25 budget (Amendment #658). We need YOUR help to build support for this amendment by asking your Senator to co-sponsor the amendment. Read more about the FRESH Grant program.

It’s easy to make your voice heard.

We've drafted the email, but we encourage you to personalize the email to make your message more powerful. You can type directly into the pre-populated message field! Share your story and why you believe a farm to school grant program will be good for students, for farmers, and for communities. If you are a current FRESH Grant recipient, please share the impact of this funding on your program.

  • "Hello, I'm a constituent from [your town] and I am calling today to ask you to sustain food literacy and farm to school program funding within the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) in the FY25 budget.

    Farm to School funding would expand the competitive FRESH grant program established with ARPA funding. During the first two rounds of applications for the FRESH grant, DESE received over $4M in requests for the $1M in available funding. Please support level funding of $1 million for food literacy and the FRESH Grant program in the FY25 budget to help more schools and early education programs provide students with healthy, locally grown foods in school meals and food education while supporting new markets for our farmers and fishermen.”

Thanks for your help sustaining farm to school programs across the Commonwealth. Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions. 

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Help spread the word! Use the social media text below to share this Call to Action with your networks, or share social posts from the Massachusetts Farm to School social media accounts (Facebook & Instagram: @MassFarmtoSchool or X: @MAFarmtoSchool. 

“I’ve contacted my state senator to ask for their support for Farm to School program funding! Join me and ask your legislators for their support today: https://bit.ly/FY25SenateBudgetAction

#farmtoschool #mapoli”

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