Food Justice For Kids Prize
Powered by Newman’s Own Foundation, Humanitix, and The Henry P. Kendall Foundation
The Food Justice for Kids Prize is an open call for innovative organizations across the United States working to ensure all children can access, learn about, and engage with nutritious, culturally relevant food at school and in communities. The Prize will award grants up to $100K over two years and is open to nonprofits, Tribes, schools, and school districts in the United States that support kids in any of the following areas: learning about healthy food, eating nutritious school meals, and engaging with Indigenous foods.
Applications and nominations open February 17, 2026! More information coming soon.
Key Dates
Nomination & application periods
Application period February 17–April 28, 2026, 1:00PM ET
Food Justice for Kids Prize informational webinars
Finalists notified
Finalist interviews: Week of August 10, 2026 (virtual)
Announcement and grant disbursement
Why Food Justice for Kids?
Unfortunately, this vision is far from reality. In the United States, 1 in 5 children (14.1 million) live in households where they do not have enough nutritious food to eat or know where their next meal may come from. At the same time, over half of U.S. children fall short on consumption of key food groups like fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
Food access and diet quality are critical for children to learn, grow, and thrive. Children facing food insecurity are more likely to experience developmental delays, anxiety, depression, and other chronic health outcomes.
Indigenous communities face even greater challenges. The seizing of Indigenous lands in the United States over several centuries disrupted the communities’ knowledge and cultivation of culturally specific foods and food systems, contributing to higher rates of food insecurity and risks for chronic diseases among Native American youth, including obesity and Type 2 diabetes.
The Food Justice for Kids Prize aims to support projects working to grow the next generation of food citizens. This is the second call for the Food Justice for Kids Prize.
FAQs
FAQs and rules coming soon
February 27, 2026, 3:30PM ET: Register Here
March 25, 2026, 4:00PM ET: Register Here
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Newman’s Own Foundation
Newman’s Own Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation whose mission is to nourish and transform the lives of children who face adversity. The Foundation continues Paul Newman’s commitment to use all the money that it receives—100% of the profits and royalties—from the sale of Newman’s Own products in service of its mission. Through the efforts of Paul Newman and Newman’s Own, over $625 million has been given to social impact organizations since 1982.
Today, Newman’s Own Foundation grantee partners promote nutritious food in schools, advance Indigenous food justice, and through SeriousFun Children’s Network, create medically inclusive camp experiences.
Humanitix
Humanitix is the ticketing platform that dedicates 100% of profits to charity.
With tickets for good, not greed, Humanitix takes the booking fees we all hate paying and dedicates the profits to charity. Your booking fees help provide access to education, healthcare and life’s basic necessities to millions of humans across the world.
Event hosts switch to Humanitix for the stress-free ticket management experience, lower fees and real human support. And with nearly 20 million tickets sold across the world, ticket buyers love that every ticket they buy has a positive impact. Learn more at humanitix.com.
The Henry P. Kendall Foundation
Since 2011, The Henry P. Kendall Foundation has worked with partners to advance a resilient, regional food system in New England. We envision a future where healthy, local, sustainably produced food is broadly accessible and provides lasting health, economic, and environmental benefits. Our grants support farm to school initiatives, regional supply chain coordination, leadership development and networks, mobilization around the vision of New England Feeding New England, and the advancement of public priorities. For more information, visit kendall.org.
