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Maine Points: Full Plates Full Potential

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Maine Points: Full Plates Full Potential

Full Plates Full Potential is a coalition of community leaders, stakeholders and advocates working to end child hunger in Maine. Started in 2014 by John Woods and Justin Alfond, the organization was born out of the work of the Maine Legislature’s Task Force to End Student Hunger. Through that work, we realized that Maine desperately needed a statewide organization focused solely on maximizing participation in federal child nutrition programs.

Summer in Maine is a magical place but for more than 80,000 kids across our state, summer the hungriest season of all. Full Plates is working hard to connect any Maine child who needs a free meal with reliable, nutritious food all summer long and we need your help. The continuing COVID-19 pandemic means increasing need coupled with rising expenses. Help Full Plates make summer in Maine a place where all kids can just be kids by giving generously to our Summer Meals Emergency Fund.

The purpose of this program is to inform the listeners of what Full Plates does for our community as well as The Summer Meals Emergency Fund.

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