Expertise Curated for You

All The Tools Experts Shared To Build Student-led Cafeteria Victories

These resources are offered by a vast community that shares your values.

They offer their expertise in different formats, for various audiences. Sometimes, every word will feel like it is meant for you. Even if you are not their target audience, you know best how to transform the work that they are sharing into Cafeteria Victories at your school. It may be as simple as sharing a sorting how-to video link with each teacher, or as complex as your wildest dreams. Let's find out.

And when you're ready, we invite you to share your inspiring materials with Cafeteria Victories. We'll post them here.

Share School-Wide

Speed up your Cafeteria Victories by using content that has been tried and tested. Please preview these videos closely. Different waste haulers (the people who take your trash) have different equipment and different procedures. Some ideas work better in bigger schools, some smaller. Make sure you are sharing information that works for your school. Not all videos are posted here, so if you find something you like, find out where it came from to see if they made more.

For Green Teams

Being a green team member means that you are a leader. Develop your leadership by gathering insights from youth experts just like you.

The students formed the Coalition to Re-Imagine School Waste, a student-run group... which is currently expanding to other states. The Coalition ...has established food waste diversion programs in public schools around the county and state. 📰Worldwildlife.org Spotlight Story: students helped pass state legislation

A basic Food Audit results presentation from Fayetteville High School. Get ideas about what you would include and how.

San Mateo County offers a Green Team Guide which includes links to additional Green Team Guides.

Evidence Adults Love

Many government and non-government, universities and professional organizations, for-profit and non-profit businesses, want to help you make your case. Find the research here. Share more research here.

Oakland Unified School District paves the way in waste prevention.

USDA guidelines on the use of Share Tables in schools

Upstream has a hub of resources. Sift through to find ideas and support organizations.

Funding

Community Project Requests — previously referred to as “earmarks” — are one-time funding requests that can be spent over one-year. (National League of Cities

Argue with Evidence

Here we feature evidence created by youth.