PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To assist States, through grants-in-aid and other means, to initiate and maintain nonprofit food service programs for children, elderly or impaired adults in nonresidential day care facilities and children in emergency shelters.

ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. FOOD AND NUTRITION;
- Food and Nutrition for Children;
2. INCOME SECURITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES;
- Nutrition;

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Public nonprofit institution/organization;
- Other public institution/organization;
- Private non-profit institution/organization;
- Quasi-public non-profit organization;
- Profit organization;

WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- U.S. Territories and possessions (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Private non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);