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Nutritional Development Services

New Loaves and Fishes Newsletter!

The Nutritional Development Services Loaves and Fishes spring newsletter 2015  includes information about the NDS programs feeding children in schools, after-school programs, child care centers, and other venues.  Through our Community Food Program, the hungry in our community are able to receive meals and food assistance. This program is dependent on the generosity of people like you, and your support can help us give life to the miracle of the loaves and fishes!  Students from Bonner/Prendie High School are pictured above.

Summer Meals Meeting

Only a fraction of the children who receive free or reduced-price school lunches are reached by the summer meals program.  With summer on the horizon and this alarming gap in mind, Nutritional Development Services (NDS) was happy to host a recent meeting of local Summer Meal sponsors, Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) administrators, University of Pennsylvania’s Fox Leadership Executive Director, and Ms. Audrey Rowe, Administrator of Food and Nutrition Services for the United States Department of Agriculture. […]

Temple-West’s legacy of feeding the hungry honored in new scholarship

Patrick Temple-West, the late founding director of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s Nutritional Development Services, was recognized May 15 by the establishment of a permanent scholarship in his name by St. Joseph’s University’s Academy of Food Marketing. […]