In 2001 the Food Trust started a campaign to address the lack of access to healthy foods in Philadelphia, resulting in seventy-eight additional fresh food outlets. This success has led to interest from other states and the federal government in expanding the initiative. This is The Food Trust’s five-step framework for increasing access to fresh, healthy food in other locales.
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.
Michelle Obama Visits Inglewood for Freshworks Grocery Store Launch. Northgate Gonzalez Markets will receive $20 million in financing to open the Inglewood store and two other markets in City Heights and South Los Angeles.
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.
The Reinvestment Fund’s Supermarket Study of Low Access Areas. Includes an analysis estimating food access for the purpose of: identifying area underserved by full-service supermarkets and further stratifying underserved areas as having significant grocery retail leakage, demand, and lack of access.
The Denver Food Access Task Force released this report, which outlines policy recommendations to improve access to affordable, healthy food and stimulate economic development in Denver and throughout Colorado.
Common Market connects wholesale customers to farmers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware by marketing and distributing good food to schools, hospitals, grocers and workplaces. This video talks about the food hub and its benefits to the local community.
A webinar that analyzes several models of mobile markets, food hubs and processing/cold chain facilities to see their impact on increasing the distribution of healthy food.
This webinar discusses the importance of outcome measurement, organizational readiness for outcome, measurement, and organizational barriers in evaluation.