Our Mission:
Ensure that school food professionals have the resources, funding, and support they need to provide fresh, delicious, cooked-from-scratch meals that support the health of children and our planet.

Our Vision:
Our story begins with a sad fact: millions of children across the country have a myriad of long-term nutritional issues. Sadly, the food served in schools is often heavily processed and lacks fresh fruits and vegetables. Many children do not have the choice to bring their own lunch, but fall below the poverty line and rely on free and reduced-price lunches—they eat school food because they have to.

We believe that healthy food has the power to change children’s lives.

More than 15 years ago, Chef Ann Cooper had a vision of a national organization that could help schools serve fresh, healthy, scratch-cooked food. Today, the Chef Ann Foundation carries out that vision by actively supporting school districts through professional development and implementation grants, including free resources and knowledge and tried-and-tested tools for change.

About the Chef Ann Foundation:
Founded in 2009, the Chef Ann Foundation (CAF) believes that all children should have equal access to fresh, healthy, delicious food, providing them the foundation to thrive and meet their true potential. We ensure that school food professionals have the resources, funding and support they need to provide cook-from-scratch meals that support the health of children and our planet. To date, we’ve reached over 16,000 schools and over 4.4 million children in all 50 states with our school food programming.