Spoon Foundation

Oregon foster care: spoon launched the nourishing oregon's foster children project in january 2015 in collaboration with department of human services and university of oregon to offer a tailored nutrition and feeding training program for the foster care community (foster parents, child welfare professionals, and training service providers). In 2024 we launched a project to create an online version of our training of trainers curriculum and established partnerships to scale the training throughout oregon.

We engaged in the following activities in support of our strategic plan: advocacy, communications, and program development. Our advocacy and communications objectives and activities ranged from global to country level initiatives, with the goal to ensure that vulnerable children are included in policies and programs in order to reduce their malnutrition. Program development activities included partner outreach and planning to support program sustainability and scale.

Spoon utilizes a suite of tools, including our app "count me in," our distance learning courses, and our in-person feeding and nutrition curriculum to improve the nutrition, feeding, and health of vulnerable children. Our tools uniquely address multiple nutrition-related risk factors as well as improper feeding techniques for all children, including children with disabilities and children outside of family care. In 2024, spoon's partners deployed our tools in residential care facilities and community sites in zambia, uganda, tanzania, lesotho, vietnam, and democratic republic of congo. We continued building out version two of the app, called count me in plus. In addition to the expenses disclosed here, "count me in" development costs of $107,745 were capitalized during the 2024 fiscal year.