--- title: How to Feed America's Hungry Kids This Summer description: How to feed hungry kids year-round, why Sesame Street got into the venture capital game and more. canonical: https://time.com/4346192/feed-america-hungry-kids-summer-long/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-24T16:01:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:57.906Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How to Feed America's Hungry Kids This Summer og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4346192/feed-america-hungry-kids-summer-long/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Feed America's Hungry Kids This Summer twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How to Feed America's Hungry Kids This Summer by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 24, 2016 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 24, 2016 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Millions of kids risk hunger over summer break. Here’s how to make sure they eat.**](http://www.citylab.com/politics/2016/05/why-kids-still-go-hungry-in-the-summer/483755/) By Eillie Anzilotti in CityLab **2\.** [**Find out why Sesame Street got into the venture capital game.**](http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/inside-the-venture-capital-arm-of-sesame-street) By Adrienne Raphel in the New Yorker **3\.** [**Nigeria created a radically different — and successful — development program.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/05/20/478858004/nigeria-you-win-your-development-plan-may-be-the-best-in-history) By Alex Goldmark at NPR’s Planet Money **4\.** [**What if we could power fuel cells with seawater and sunlight?**](http://phys.org/news/2016-05-electricity-seawater-method-efficiently-hydrogen.html) By Lisa Zyga in Phys.org **5\.** [**Eating your meal off this plate could make it healthier.**](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the%5Feye/2016/05/20/bbdo%5Fbangkok%5Fdesigned%5Fthe%5Fabsorbplate%5Fwith%5F500%5Ftiny%5Fholes%5Fto%5Fcut%5Fcalories.html) By Kristin Hohenadel in Slate  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4346192/feed-america-hungry-kids-summer-long/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4346192/feed-america-hungry-kids-summer-long/"},"headline":"How to Feed America's Hungry Kids This Summer","datePublished":"2016-05-24T16:01:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:57.906Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4346192/feed-america-hungry-kids-summer-long/","keywords":["Innovation","Hunger","Sesame Street","Nigeria","healthy food"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4346192/feed-america-hungry-kids-summer-long/","name":"How to Feed America's Hungry Kids This Summer"}}]}] ```