creating
COMMUNITIES
OF HEALTH
through
FRESH FOOD
What We Do
Brighter Bites is a nonprofit that delivers fresh fruits and vegetables directly into families’ hands. We teach them how to use it and track their behavior change. We make it fun. We make it free. And we make it happen via a simple, three-part formula:
Our Not-So-Secret Formula
Produce Distribution + Nutrition Education + Fun Food Experience
Fill the Plate
Produce Distribution
+Bring fresh produce to where kids already are.
Every week of programming, Brighter Bites heads to elementary schools and summer camps to distribute fresh, seasonal produce for families and teachers to pick up and take home. These bags and boxes contain about ~50 servings of an ever-changing variety of fresh fruits and veggies, weighing close to 20 pounds.
Bring fresh produce to where kids already are.
Every week of programming, Brighter Bites heads to elementary schools and summer camps to distribute fresh, seasonal produce for families and teachers to pick up and take home. These bags and boxes contain about ~50 servings of an ever-changing variety of fresh fruits and veggies, weighing close to 20 pounds.
Educate
Nutrition Education
+Teach kids and families healthy ways to use their food.
We teach kids, parents, and teachers how to make the most of their produce. We believe teachers are important role models in the lives of children, and we support them in the implementation of evidence-based nutrition education in the classroom. In addition, we provide easy recipes, kitchen how-to’s and tips, and healthy topics via text message, newsletter, and mobile app for families to use at home.
Teach kids and families healthy ways to use their food.
We teach kids, parents, and teachers how to make the most of their produce. We believe teachers are important role models in the lives of children, and we support them in the implementation of evidence-based nutrition education in the classroom. In addition, we provide easy recipes, kitchen how-to’s and tips, and healthy topics via text message, newsletter, and mobile app for families to use at home.
Make It Great
Fun Food Experience
+Create a fun food experience for everyone involved.
Brighter Bites staff know that healthy food does not have to be intimidating, so we create a welcoming environment for families. We connect and engage with families and students through in-person produce distributions and recipe demonstrations over the course of the year.
Create a fun food experience for everyone involved.
Brighter Bites staff know that healthy food does not have to be intimidating, so we create a welcoming environment for families. We connect and engage with families and students through in-person produce distributions and recipe demonstrations over the course of the year.
Replicate
Weekly & Widely
+Replicate our three-part formula weekly and widely.
The science behind Brighter Bites tells us that it takes the biweekly continuity of our formula to really make an impact. So we divide our program into three seasons: sixteen weeks during the school year and four to eight weeks during the summer.
Embedded within our formula is the implicit mitigation of food waste. We increase the recovery of produce from growers, distributors, and food banks, and reduce food waste at the consumer level by teaching families how to use it.
Our goal is to link the school and home environments to create a larger community around nutrition, health, and behavior change.
Replicate our three-part formula weekly and widely.
The science behind Brighter Bites tells us that it takes the biweekly continuity of our formula to really make an impact. So we divide our program into three seasons: sixteen weeks during the school year and four to eight weeks during the summer.
Embedded within our formula is the implicit mitigation of food waste. We increase the recovery of produce from growers, distributors, and food banks, and reduce food waste at the consumer level by teaching families how to use it.
Our goal is to link the school and home environments to create a larger community around nutrition, health, and behavior change.
“By giving kids access to fresh, nutritious food and showing them how to make the most of it, we help turn healthy habits into something even better: healthy lifestyles.”
Lisa Helfman, Founder
What’s in the Bag?
This little brown bag is chock full of brighter benefits.
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65,000,000+
pounds of fresh produce delivered so far!
150,000+
nutrition lessons, produce activities, and PE activities executed since 2017
MILLIONS
of at-home nutrition education materials distributed!