Federal SNAP-Ed funding was eliminated in the budget bill passed in July 2025. As a result, the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan’s SNAP-Ed programming ends on August 15, 2025, after more than 20 years of work made possible through our partnership with the Michigan Fitness Foundation. The following programs have been impacted by those cuts: PE-Nut, Discover MyPlate, Choose Health: Food, Fun, and Fitness, MyGarden, and Farmers Market Food Navigator. To read more, visit www.nkfm.org/snap-ed-reflection.
Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is an international movement—and now a federal program—to make it safe, convenient, and fun for children of all abilities, to bicycle and walk to school. When routes are safe, walking or biking to and from school is an easy way to get the regular physical activity children need for good health. SRTS uses a variety of education, encouragement, engineering, evaluation and equity strategies to help make routes safer for children to walk and bicycle to school and encouragement strategies to entice more children to walk and bike. Safe Routes to School initiatives also help ease traffic jams and air pollution, unite neighborhoods, and contribute to students’ readiness to learn in school.
