This webinar discusses how to identify and leverage financing mechanisms to create healthier food options in local communities, and heard from people who have experience launching and sustaining successful projects.

A guide describing grants and programs relevant to regional and local food systems development to help people take advantage of them and receive program funding.

The California FreshWorks Fund disbursed $8.5 million in New Markets Tax Credit financing for tenant improvements and other costs related to the development of a new 42,625 square foot, full-service Northgate Gonzalez Market.

The report provides information on funding and financing opportunities in Vermont's food system. It also looks at emerging models that improve the existing food system. This is an excerpt from the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund “Farm to Plate Strategic Plan”.

A panel of funding experts illustrate the many conventional and unconventional ways food hubs can secure needed capital. Three hubs are highlighted and the panel advises on how to best access grants, loans, and other creative financing sources appropriate to that hub.

The Food, Environment, and Economic Development (FEED) Act aims to close the grocery gap and capture those opportunities while also enabling more residents to eat a healthy diet. In creates incentives to draw full-service grocery stores to low-income food deserts and provides funding for a Healthy Food Retail Program.

A webinar that examines ways to finance a co-op, modes of achieving sources of capital and strategies to work with primary lenders.

Discusses how successful healthy food financing models use a combination of different kinds of capital (e.g., grant funding, grants that can be used as credit enhancement, debt capital, loan guarantees and New Market Tax Credits).

This report contains recommendations developed by the New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee. The recommendations address ways the city and state officials can support increasing the number of retail outlets that sell fresh fruits and vegetables in communities that desperately need them.

The Healthy Food Retail Act, signed into law by Gov. Bobby Jindal on July 1, goes into effect on Aug. 15. It creates the structure for a financing program that will provide grants and loans to supermarkets, farmers' markets and food retail providers to improve access to fresh fruits and vegetables in underserved communities in Louisiana.