---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1778"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1778"
heading: "Nonprofit programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1778"
units:
  - "Chapter 13A — Child Nutrition"
---

# §1778. Nonprofit programs


The food and milk service programs in schools and [nonprofit](/usc/42/1784.md?p=3) institutions receiving assistance under this chapter shall be conducted on a [nonprofit](/usc/42/1784.md?p=3) basis.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–642, § 9, Oct. 11, 1966, 80 Stat. 888.)