The Baltimore Food Policy Initiative is an inter-governmental collaboration with the Department of Planning, Baltimore Office of Sustainability, Baltimore Development Corporation and the Baltimore City Health Department. The goal of BFPI is to increase access to healthy and affordable foods in Baltimore City food deserts. BFPI is doing this through a holistic and comprehensive food systems approach.
An examination of why it is rare to see a grocery store downtown while many Americans increasingly prefer to live there.
UpLift Solutions is a national nonprofit organization that supports food businesses, government, and nonprofits to create sustainable environments for underserved communities. UpLift Solutions believes that full service supermarkets in underprivileged communities can become the anchor to fulfill community needs and ensure consistent access to fresh, affordable food. UpLift Solutions is able to implement its programs in underserved markets across the country by creating entrepreneurial solutions that empower communities while benefiting all stakeholders involved.
This report outlines the unique challenges and opportunities of inner-city markets and provides the experience of grocery retailers serving inner-city communities. It seeks to uncover key principles for grocery retailers to operate profitably in inner-city communities.
San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar announces that he would introduce legislation that aims to form an incentive program for city food retailers to market and sell fresh food, especially more produce, and cut back on high fat and sugar items and tobacco and alcohol products.
Case profile of supermarket and retail center built in North Philadelphia financed with New Market Tax Credits.
San Francisco Supervisor Mar says a recent city analysis shows that hundreds of mom-and-pop shops would close if more big-box chains start selling groceries in San Francisco. To save the small stores Mar wants to give shop owners incentives to sell more fresh fruits and vegetables.
A webinar discussing how a licensing law could make healthy food more accessible to low-income neighborhoods.
A project to help many independently-owned grocers in Kansas by providing them with knowledge, service, best practice information, and test approaches so many small rural grocery operations can succeed.
This webpage briefly describes the background of Jeff Brown who founded Uplift Solutions, a consulting company helping customers create business plans to work to alleviate social problems.