We need an army of lunch angels.
You can bring relief to families and hope to students.
We need people willing to pay down lunch balances and remove worry from students who are afraid they can't eat because they can't pay.
The film
An act of generosity long ago is paid forward on a winter night.
Tap play to hear the story.
A program of Davis Education Foundation
Across Davis School District, students sit down to lunch every day. Some can't cover the cost. A Lunch Angel can clear away the debt — covering a meal and saving students from worry and shame.
The help is invisible by design. No student is singled out, no balance is announced, and the giver is never seen. Just a kid with a full tray who can focus on learning instead of lunch.
How it works
A gift of any size goes straight toward covering lunch debt and creating Lunch Angel funds at schools across the district.
Funds clear debt and reach the cafeteria when they're needed — no paperwork for the family, no spotlight on the child.
Lunch is there when it's needed. Only the Lunch Angel knows the source of the gift.
Inspired by a true story
Lunch Angels began with a real moment at the Ogden Christmas Village — and a man who had almost nothing, giving everything he could.
Late one evening, as the crowds thinned at the Giving Machines, a man experiencing homelessness stopped to ask what they were for.
He learned that $10 could cover a week of school lunch for a child who couldn't afford one. He went quiet. “Someone did that for me when I was a kid,” he said — and walked away.
Minutes later he was back, a bill clutched in his hand. Told there was no change for it, he didn't hesitate.
“Let's get two, then.
Somebody did this for me.”
It was a $20 bill. That moment — quiet, unseen, freely given — is the heart of every Lunch Angel.
As witnessed and shared by Doug DeFries, Giving Machines volunteer, Ogden Christmas Village.
Every gift helps a Davis School District student sit down to a warm lunch today — no questions, no embarrassment, no interruptions to learning.
Give a lunch