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Nourish Nantucket to fund school pantries and run free summer meals from new Boynton Lane kitchen
Summary
Nourish Nantucket offered a donation to stock small pantries in each of the district's four schools and will operate a free grab-and-go breakfast and lunch program from a Boynton Lane kitchen during a six-week summer period; the program will begin nonprofit-funded with plans to seek federal reimbursements.
Meg Browers, executive director of Nourish Nantucket, told the Nantucket School Committee on April 14 that the nonprofit will donate funds to support small pantries in each of the district’s four schools and will operate a daily grab-and-go breakfast and lunch program from a new Boynton Lane kitchen during a six-week summer period.
"One out of three islanders experiences food insecurity and one out of two students in the public schools…qualify for free or reduced lunch," Browers said, explaining the nonprofit’s focus on feeding families with children. She…
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