Malvern Health and Wellness center in Arkansas began marketing a recipe of the month. The recipe is posted to their social media account and SBHC website. The center found social media to be a highly effective way to reach the community. Printed recipe cards are provided at the onsite pantry and recipes are coordinated with the foods available in the pantry of that month. This center has also partnered with a large medical facility that provides links to nutrition and physical exercise lessons each week that they make available through the same methods. 

At Rising Star Elementary in Seattle,  Neighborcare Health partnered with a coordinator from their local Cooking Matters organization. The original registration survey asked families about available times, language needs, preferred recipes, and topics. Rather than gearing the class toward students, courses focused on teaching parents, with opt-in times for children. Cooking Matters was able to connect Neighborcare with live interpretation in Cantonese and Spanish for non-English speaking families. 

The Cooking Matters classes would cover one hour of nutrition information with skill-building aspects like SNAP resources, shopping help, and reading nutrition labels, followed by a cooking demonstration of the week’s recipe. After each class the participants attended, Cooking Matters sent them a gift card to cover the cost of the ingredients. There was a class a week for six weeks; if the participants attended four or more classes, they received a graduation gift funded by Cooking Matters.

At Pinellas County School-Based Health Centers they employed Health Educators to build relationships with the student body, which assisted students to learn healthy habits. Through the already established food pantry at Pinellas Park High School, the Health Educator was able to introduce students to different fruits and vegetables.