Our Mission

To cultivate and empower children’s health through nutrition, knowledge, and nature.

We do this by:

• Designing scalable cultivation systems for schools and communities that produce fresh, nutrient-rich food—replacing ultra-processed meals with real, nourishing options.

• Building collaborative partnerships with educators, parents, industry leaders, and local stakeholders to create a united front for healthier children and communities.

• Providing hands-on education that teaches children where food comes from, how it fuels their bodies, and how it connects to lifelong well-being.

• Integrating food cultivation with academics to support better focus, behavior, and STEM learning through experiential, wellness-centered instruction.

• Launching regional food models that address rising food costs, reduce waste, create local jobs, and increase access to healthy meals.

• Empowering schools to become self-sustaining food hubs—with the tools, training, and support to improve school meals and health outcomes.

• Championing food equity by connecting with other nonprofits, local farms, and businesses to source high-quality ingredients beyond produce.

• Fostering stewardship and purpose by reconnecting kids to nature and helping them grow not just food—but responsibility, confidence, and resilience.

Because healthy kids build healthy communities—and a stronger, more secure future for us all.

Our Vision

A future where the health of every child is a shared priority—bringing together parents, educators, communities, and leaders to grow a healthier generation and a stronger nation.

Leadership Team

For over 37 years, a unique skillset was built around farming, athletics, health and nutrition, information processing, insurance and risk management, finance and securities, commercial contracts, law, political studies, and project management. Talents developed include the ability to connect the dots through multiple disciplines. The experiences helped Gregory to analyze the quality of the mind behind the act to identify the mechanisms of function.

Over the last 5 years, Gregory's work has been focused on food security, cultivation models for producing healthy foods, food security systems, cultivation optimizations, and supply chain analysis highlighting a horrific 30+% food waste. During this time, he built a research application to connect epigenetic signaling with phytochemical changes in plants. He also built the business plan, accounting and proformas, risk assessment, and feasibility study for one of the largest planned vertical farming operations in the world. This evolved into the most optimized closed environment agriculture innovation, with patent filings underway.

His present work is a kindred mission of the executive, which involves finding solutions to an unprecedented health crisis. This is where the original idea of "Screentime to Greentime" was formulated, as the foundation of healthy schools.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/cehort/

Gregory Bundschoks

Founder

Executive Director

Christen is the Founding Director of Nutrition & Dietetics and Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Dietics at PACE University. She established a National Accreditation for an Accelerated Master of Science Degree, and the curriculum for a 54-credit Master of Science Program. She also designed the Nation's only program offering unique concentrations of culinary nutrition and food equity, growing program credibility. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in top nutrition education journals and has gained notoriety giving 100+ quotes and contributions to media, including BBC, SELF, Men's Health, The Financial Times, Consumer Reports, and others. As Writer, Media Assistant for Joy Bauer Nutrition, she served as a nutritional SME for Joy Bauer, NBC Today show nutritionist and author of 14 #1 New York Times Bestselling Books. As Senior Manager/Consultant for Kaiser Associates, Christen managed a team of global consultants delivering strategic analyses to F-500 Companies in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, advising U.S. Healthcare and health insurance companies on how to penetrate the Latin American market. She was also Healthcare advisor to Congressman Kanjorski, U.S. House of Representatives.

Christen is Founder/Principal of Cooper Nutrition and Communications where she provides strategic insights, market analysis, product development, trend and market analysis. Some of her clients included Quaker Oats, McCormick, Everydayhealth.com, the Office of the Attorney General of New York, Head Start, New York Road Runners, Red Rabbit, Provant Healthcare, and Northern Westchester Hospital.

Her talents allowed her to partner with healthcare facilities, farm-to-table restaurants, foodservice operators, educational institutions, athletic teams, and others to improve product/service quality while offering students on-the-job training.

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Dr. Christen Cupples Cooper, Ed.D,

Co-Founder

Executive Director

Tammie Mattos is a lifelong educator with over 20 years of classroom experience, where she saw firsthand how nutrition impacts student focus, behavior, and academic performance. Her time teaching—especially in schools where many children faced food insecurity—sparked a passion for helping families and educators understand the powerful connection between food and learning.

After improving her own health through whole food nutrition, Tammie became a Certified Family Health Coach to empower parents and children with simple, practical tools for better eating. She is also the author of the upcoming Garden Heroes children’s book series, a playful, empowering collection that brings vegetables to life to spark curiosity around food and wellness. Designed with educators, parents, and librarians in mind, these books aim to support conversations about healthy habits and inspire joyful learning—both in the classroom and at home.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammie-mattos

Tammie Mattos

Co-Founder

Executive Director

In 1984, Ron traveled to China with the Reagan Administration to initiate the trade treaties between China and the USA. This work was implemented and is still in effect, eliminating double taxation.

In 1993, he launched a Mexican Seafood company embarking on a career making him a leading authority in the seafood industry. In 2003, he became the VP of Global Food Technologies (GFT), a life sciences food safety biotech company. This gave birth to GFT's wholly owned subsidiary "iPura Foods". Ron has personally visited 56 countries introducing GFT/iPura technology and procuring seafood for export and resale to the USA. For 30 years, Ron's expertise has evolved in commercial seafood, poultry, beef, pork, lamb, vegetables and fruits. During these years he developed advanced skills in food safety, food technologies, nanotechnologies, procurements, logistics, supply chains, sales operations, and manufacturing (Six Sigma) production across the value chain. He also developed administrative and operational skills in management, sales, public relations, R&D, marketing, consumer trend analysis, value metrics, and driving corporate strategy and performance improvements through executive-level financial analysis and reporting.
Ron's experience has developed an industry-recognized name with a vast network of top food executives while managing major accounts of Fortune 500 companies.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/roncalonica/

Ron Calonica

Co-Founder

Executive Director

Advisory Board

I deliver billion-dollar revenue growth and successful mergers and acquisitions for some of the world’s largest companies, such as Uber, Yahoo, Walmart, Microsoft, and Symantec. Through data-driven solutions, an emphasis on continuous improvements, and the ability to inspire and motivate global teams, I’m able to invent, produce organizational alignment, and help companies grow at scale.

My passion is leading agile, cross-functional organizations to solve complex challenges for high-growth companies where technology is a critical part of their business strategy. From start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, I direct innovation, research, management and operations for businesses, products, digital transformation initiatives, and omni-channel experiences.

I’m particularly proud of my ability to envision a finished product and then deliver it. This clarity of vision enables me to align business units across strategy, finance, operations, sales, marketing, and customer success – with the trust of high-performing global teams.

As a board member and advisor, I provide critical guidance to increase the success and valuation of the companies I guide. I hold board seats on technology companies, advise funds, and have chaired high-profile committees at Uber and Yahoo on hiring, promotion, and service quality.

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Mai Le Hong

Clancy Harrison, founder of Food Dignity®, empowers corporations, nonprofits, and government agencies to lead the change in transforming food systems.

She stands as a beacon of hope and relentless advocacy in the fight against hunger, food inequity, and institutional food racism. With nearly 30 years of hands-on service alongside the people who have directly experienced these injustices, Clancy brings an unmatched depth of empathy and understanding to her mission.

With deep expertise in addressing biases and systemic barriers to food access, Clancy helps leaders redefine the role of food in society, advocating for food as a basic human right.

Her approach, rooted in empathy and practical action, positions corporations at the forefront of societal impact, turning continual improvement for social responsibility into a tangible tool for fostering food equity and dignity.

She is not afraid to challenge the status quo. She considers herself beholden not to funders, lobbyists, and government officials, but to the homeless veteran on the street… The single mother trying to feed her family… The grandfather with a disability on a fixed income… And the underemployed new American who’s struggling to make sense of a complicated system.

Clancy is the catalyst for companies across North America who want to join the deeper conversation around food—and build a more equitable and sustainable future.

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Clancy Harrison

Corporate Software Executive - Solution Driven, Value-Based - Resident UK & Europe & RSA. With a distinguished career spanning over three decades, expertise with Enterprise customers covering a multitude of verticals and positions across the EMEA region. Having delivered exceptional sales results alongside creating valuable propositions on multiple levels at Enterprise organisations and implementation partners. Having the ability to navigate complex challenges with innovative solutions across multiple levels, eager to apply this senior-level experience to further elevate corporate strategies in the technology sector across the EMEA region.

Achievements domain: Pharma, Telco, Finance, Communications & Manufacturing.
Acknowledged in Enterprise Architecture, Integration Applications, Security Applications,
Analytics, Automation, LIMS, BPM Tooling, PM Tooling & Process Intelligence.
- Multiple Sales Club/Presidents awards -

Emerging & New Markets, Analysis, Negotiation, Licensing, Troubleshooting, Procurement, Retention, Sales, Management, Revenue, Growth, New Tech, Scale-up, Founder, Expansion, ex-Tibco, Automic, Veracode, Adobe, Active Software, Webmethods.

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Renno Koopmans

Kate brings over a decade of strategic sales and marketing expertise in tech and consumer brands, currently serving as Vice President of West Coast Sales at JPMorgan Chase, a global leader in driving financial progress through service and innovation for over 225 years. At JPMorgan Chase, Kate continues to champion integrity, authenticity, and leadership development—organizing impact-driven initiatives that support both clients and teams.

Prior to JPMorgan Chase, Kate led client development at large enterprise companies including Microsoft, Pfizer, Univision/Televisa, IAC, and Microsoft, as well as at startups and scaleups including TextNow—managing relationships with Fortune 100 companies including Amazon, Apple, Walmart, Procter & Gamble, AT&T, Verizon, Alphabet (Google), Ford, and McDonald’s. She holds a double degree in International Economics and Spanish from the University of Washington and is known for her energy, passion, and genuine commitment to helping others thrive.

Kate has always been passionate about creating a better world for our children. Outside of work, she dedicates time to volunteering in public schools, supporting local charities, and championing women’s leadership and empowerment. Her personal values align deeply with the Foundation’s mission of fostering healthy school environments through hands-on nutrition education, sustainable cultivation, and stakeholder collaboration.

As an advisor to the Foundation, Kate is eager to leverage her leadership, cross-sector partnerships, and program development skills to advance the Foundation for Healthy Schools’ mission—empowering children, families, and schools to grow healthier, more vibrant communities.

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Kate Killigrew