Free nutritious ready-to-eat meals and snacks served to children and youth through the federally funded DC Summer Meals Program. The Little Lights Center site is operated by Little Lights, a faith-based nonprofit serving under-resourced children, youth, and families in Washington DC since 1995 through year-round youth development, academic support, mentoring, family services, and economic empowerment programming in the Capitol Hill area.

A free summer food service site at Arthur Capper Community Center, operated by the DC Department of Parks and Recreation. Provides no-cost meals and snacks to children and youth 18 and younger through the federal Summer Food Service Program (DC Youth Meals Program). No ID, application, or registration is required. The center also houses a gymnasium, fitness center, tech lab, classrooms, arts and crafts room, game room, senior room, children's pool, and playground as part of its regular recreation programming.

Little Lights Urban Ministries, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving Washington, DC since 1995, hosts a USDA summer food service site at the Hopkins Center through a partnership with the Capital Area Food Bank, providing free healthy meals and snacks to local youth. The center is part of Little Lights' broader network of community programs that offer year-round after-school tutoring, mentoring, academic enrichment, and family support for children, youth, and families in under-resourced neighborhoods east of the river.

• The food pantry is closed on the first two Mondays of April 2023.
• It is closed on all Federal holidays plus Easter Monday, the Friday after Thanksgiving, and December 26th-31st.

Free USDA Summer Food Service Program meal site serving breakfast and lunch to all youth ages 18 and younger. Operated by DC Central Kitchen at Stephen E. Kramer Middle School as part of the District's 2026 DC Youth Meals Program. Open to the community; no application, ID, or proof of residency required.

Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School hosts an open summer meal site as part of the District of Columbia's DC Youth Meals Program, which is the local implementation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Summer Food Service Program. School-aged visitors can stop by during operating hours to receive a free nutritious breakfast and lunch in the school cafeteria. The site is open to the broader community, not just enrolled students, so any child or teen visiting the neighborhood can eat on-site at no cost. There is no application, no income paperwork, and no identification needed to receive a meal. The program is sponsored by DC Public Schools and administered through the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE), filling the summer hunger gap when free school-year breakfast and lunch are not available.

DC Youth Meals Program site hosted at King Greenleaf Recreation Center, a DC Department of Parks and Recreation facility in the Ward 6 Southwest Waterfront community. Operated through the USDA Summer Food Service Program administered by OSSE, the site provides free nutritious meals to youth during the summer to help fill the hunger gap when school is not in session. Meals are served on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last.

Faith Tabernacle UHCA hosts this neighborhood summer meal site in partnership with Faith for the City, providing free breakfast and lunch to children and teens eighteen and younger throughout the summer. Families are welcomed into a friendly community space staffed by church and program volunteers who can also connect visitors with broader faith-based support services available through Faith for the City.