This slide deck provides program monitoring and evaluation guidance for organizations administering and evaluating home-delivered meal programs. This guidance is sourced from the Urban Institute’s five-year evaluation of the Meals-to-You program, a pilot administered by the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty that delivered shelf-stable boxes of food during the summer to children in rural and remote communities that have limited access to summer meal sites.  

This document outlines the following:

• Steps to conduct performance management, continuous improvement, or evaluation on home-delivered meal programs
• Specific state considerations for Alaska, New Mexico, and Texas, as well as issues affecting Tribal communities, that highlight issues to keep in mind when implementing programs in rural locations
• Strategies to obtain stakeholder feedback throughout implementation
• Methods to leverage program data to understand effectiveness and impact