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The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day.
The School Breakfast Program (SBP) provides reimbursement to states to operate nonprofit breakfast programs in schools and residential childcare institutions. The Food and Nutrition Service administers the SBP at the federal level. State education agencies administer the SBP at the state level, and local school food authorities operate the program in schools.
Serving breakfast 8am to 9:30am; lunch from 11:15am to 1:00pm every day. Offering daily meals, weekly food pantry, toiletry and personal items, clothing, and support services for counseling, housing assistance, emergency telephone, transportation vouchers, and more.
Provides hot meals on the first and third Sundays of each month from 12:30pm-1pm.
Free breakfast and lunch for those in need, Monday - Friday: Breakfast 7:00am - 8:00am, Lunch 11:00am - 12:30pm, Saturday* (closed the first Saturday of each month) Lunch 11:00am - 12:00pm
Free hot meals served at Crossroads on Sunday mornings, 10:00am to 11:30am
Offering daily meals, weekly food pantry, toiletry and personal items, clothing, and support services for counseling, housing assistance, emergency telephone, transportation vouchers, and more.
RI Emergency and Supplemental Food Site Map: Use this map to find emergency and supplemental food access points near you. There are many options available, including SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) retail, meal pickup locations, grocery delivery, WIC vendors, food pantries and senior meal sites.
In 2021, more than 75 Hunger Elimination Task Force participants discussed the needs and uses for
emergency and supplemental food delivery information. This group agreed that the state needed
a resource that aggregated up-to-date information on existing emergency and supplemental food
delivery services. With 1 in 6 households in Rhode Island continuing to experience food insecurity, strengthening and investing in our food delivery infrastructures is as important as ever. This guide will be updated annually and feedback on any aspect of this resource is welcome. Please email info@rifoodcouncil.org with questions or updates to this information.
Aquidneck Community Table, or "ACT," brings together partners in our community to collectively build a healthy future, generating events and discussion to explore solutions that strengthen the island’s food system, support the local economy and expand access to fresh healthy food for everyone. Aquidneck Community Table is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit.
If you are currently experiencing homelessness or are facing homelessness in the next 14 days, please contact the Coordinated Entry System and be assessed for shelter and resources.
Aging Well Inc. has provided services to seniors and adults with disabilities residing in Northern Rhode Island since 1974. In accordance with the Congregate Meal Program financed through a grant with R.I. Office of Healthy Aging, Aging Well Inc. provides nutritionally balanced lunches five days a week at our meal sites throughout northern R.I.
