A profile on Apples and Oranges Fresh Market (A&O Market), a supermarket that sells fresh and healthy prepared foods. This minority-owned supermarket is at the nexus of three Limited Supermarket Access (LSA) areas in East Baltimore, which collectively have an unmet grocery demand of $26.4 million based on The Reinvestment Funds’s 2011 LSA research.

A group of advocates for healthy living walked to the only grocery store downtown in an effort to bring attention to the food desert in their area. The Tennessee Obesity Task force walked from Legislative Plaza to the H. G. Hills Urban Market on Church Street to illustrate the difficulty that Tennesseans living in food deserts face in buying healthy foods.

A visual map of the Healthy Food Financing Initiative Grantees for 2011 and 2012, include both Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and Health and Human Services (HHS) grantees.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) released Notices of Funds Availability (NOFA) for the fiscal year (FY) 2013 funding rounds of the Community Development Financial Institutions Program (CDFI Program) and Native American CDFI Assistance Program (NACA Program).

Report which provides a comprehensive look at the economic role, challenges and opportunities for food hubs in the nation's growing local food movement. 

The North Penn Community Health Foundation commissioned this report to inform understanding of the issues and challenges food insecure families and individuals experience in Montgomery County. The report provides rich data that suggest nearly 10% of the Montgomery County population is food insecure. This report offers suggestions for improving the food security for vulnerable populations. 

An issue brief that explains the importance of developing health corner stores with local food sources in order to improve profitability and more importantly, increase access to healthy foods.  Points that are included in this brief: Identifying and selecting a supplier and/or distribution model, ensuring profitability of the model for both suppliers and store owners, accounting for limited seasonality of produce in many parts of the country, understanding consumer preferences and creating customer demand, improving corner store infrastructure and owner familarity with selling produce, and building long - term sustainability and economic benefit.

Dahl’s Foods introduced snack stations for its youngest customers. For a donation of a quarter, kids can choose a snack from a rotating selection — including items like bananas, raisins, oranges, fruit leather or organic chocolate squares. The chain has long offered Brach’s candy for a quarter per three pieces, but wanted to bring in healthier options for children.

A guide to help retailers with: healthy product selection, pricing and display, promotion and marketing, and equipment and refrigeration. 

Cohosted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Food Trust, a meeting was held to address the role of supermarkets in providing access to healthy affordable foods in communities and the role they play in reversing childhood obesity in lower - income and multi- ethnic communities.  The three goals of the meeting were to: 1) Connect (explore strategies that would help promote healthier diets for children and their familes) 2) Co - Create (generate and combine ideas for effective marketing strategies that would help consumers make healthier choices while meeting retailers' and manufacturers' business goals) 3) Contine (promote collaboration between food retailers and manufacturers and spread approaches that encourage healthy eating).