Build and strengthen relationships among community-based food system stakeholders, such as school food professionals, local farmers, distributors, aggregators, parents, students, and/or other organizations and populations who are impacted by school food supply chains

Improve school food supply chain coordination to support the shared values and needs (environmental, economic, regulatory, etc.) of local farmers and other food producers as well as K-12 schools

Increase awareness of and access to K-12 markets among small- and mid-scale and historically underserved food producers, aggregators, and processors

Expand scratch cooking operations in K-12 schools to both provide more nourishing, high quality, and culturally inclusive meals to students as well as incorporate more local and sustainably produced ingredients into meals

Establish a sustainable approach and best practices for improving K-12 school food systems that are scalable and can be adopted by other schools and community stakeholders