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<\/a>The goals of this two-year Challenge\u00a0is to encourage schools to implement a School Breakfast Program if they currently do not offer one and increase school breakfast participation in existing School Breakfast Programs.\u00a0 Schools that increase breakfast participation by 35% or more will be showcased on the honor role list on the Nebraska Department of Education website.<\/p>\nDistricts with the largest percentage increases will receive cash awards (1st<\/sup> place $5000, 2nd<\/sup> place $2000, 3rd<\/sup> place $1300).\u00a0 Three winners will be selected each year from\u00a0each of the\u00a0following tiers:<\/p>\n Tier 1:\u00a0 district enrollment of >350 students \/ have a breakfast program Share Your Breakfast<\/a><\/p>\n Schools in your district may be eligible for a Share Your Breakfast\u2122\u00a0grant, during the 2011\u20132012 school year, courtesy of Kellogg\u2019s and Action for Healthy Kids.\u00a0 The grants range from $750-$1,000 and include significant in-kind contributions from Action for Healthy Kids in the form of people, programs, and policy expertise.<\/p>\n Fuel Up to Play 60<\/a> Up to $4,000 per year is available to any qualifying K-12 school enrolled in Fuel Up to Play 60. The competitive, nationwide funding program can help your school jumpstart and sustain healthy nutrition (including school breakfast programs) and physical activity improvements.<\/p>\n Whether you\u2019re just starting out with Fuel Up to Play 60 or looking to expand and extend an initiative that\u2019s already in motion, Funds for Fuel Up to Play 60 can help.\u00a0 Your school must be enrolled in Fuel Up to Play 60 for the 2011-2012 school year to be eligible to apply for Funds. Enroll today<\/a> (it is free).<\/p>\n Application Deadlines My son recently started Kindergarten and we never leave the house until\u00a0we have\u00a0eaten breakfast.\u00a0 Although, I would\u00a0let him leave the house before eating breakfast if I knew he would\u00a0be eating breakfast at school.\u00a0 What a time saver and stress reliever that would be.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the school my son attends doesn\u2019t have a school breakfast program \u201cyet!\u201d\u00a0 I sure wish they Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,780,45],"tags":[553,554,472,555,556,557,558,559],"class_list":["post-3414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e","category-nutrition-2","category-g","tag-breakfast-handouts","tag-breakfast-program-grants","tag-breakfast-recipes","tag-fuel-up-to-play-60","tag-nebraska-healthier-breakfast-challenge","tag-school-breakfast-program","tag-school-grants","tag-share-your-breakfast","cat-42-id","cat-780-id","cat-45-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cereal-and-books1.bmp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7744,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions\/7744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTier 2:\u00a0 district enrollment of <350 students \/ have a breakfast program
\nTier 3:\u00a0 any districts that do not currently have a breakfast program<\/p>\n\n
\nWednesday, September 21, 2011, 4 \u2013 5 p.m. ET Register now <\/a><\/li>\n![\"fuel](\"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fuel-up-to-play-60-300x187.jpg\" "\\"fuel")
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\nThere are four funding application deadlines during the 2011-12 school year:<\/p>\n\n
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