A Child's Portion, in operation for over ten years, is a privately funded nutrition assistance program that bridges the gap between government assistance programs for low-income preschoolers and school-based nutrition programs by providing monthly "care packages" of nutritious food to low-income children, up until they enter 1st grade, who are at risk of hunger, but not eligible for other food assistance.

Commodity Supplemental Food Program for children provides staple government commodities and nutritious donated foods such as fresh produce for over 500 low-income preschool children in Sonoma County.

Snacks for Kids serves healthy snacks to low-income children at 16 after-school programs located throughout in Sonoma County.

Every Child, Every Day-Summer Hunger Initiative makes it possible for thousands of Sonoma County low-income children who rely on free and reduced-price school lunches for a major portion of their nutrition during the school year to have nutritious free lunches when school closes for summer vacation. In the summer of 2007, the REFB opened 37 locations where children received nutritious lunches.

The Backpack Program sends low-income school children home from school on Friday afternoons with a nutricious, kid-friendly bag of groceries for the weekend.

Megan Furth Harvest Pantry, the REFB's newest program, was established to respond to the high rate of anemia among Sonoma County 's low-income preschool children. This mobile "farmer's market" provides nutritious, iron rich food, especially fresh fruit and vegetables, to families with young children in targeted neighborhoods where high anemia rates have been found.