A lending program and set of loan and grant products from IFF. It is designed to invest approximately $30 million over the next three to four years in full service grocery stores to increase the availability of fresh food in high need communities throughout Illinois. 

Developed by ChangeLab Solutions, Getting to Grocery is designed to help advocates and public health agencies coordinate and leverage the tools available through local government and other organizations to bring grocery stores into low-income communities.

FRESH provides zoning and financial incentives to promote the establishment and retention of neighborhood grocery stores in underserved communities throughout the five boroughs.

FRESH provides zoning and financial incentives to promote the establishment and retention of neighborhood grocery stores in underserved communities throughout the five boroughs.

Examines the barriers to the Detroit grocery sector’s expansion and recommend methods by which to overcome those obstacles.

A primer on the successful financing of healthy food systems. There are five case studies of food system enterprises that work to grow, process, aggregate/distribute, and/or retail healthy food in low-income communities. The primer also includes a sector-by-sector analysis of food sector capital needs and interdependencies and an introduction to Food Policy Councils.

The Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program and Reinvestment Fund performed a detailed analysis of supermarket access in 10 metro areas, and the results are discussed in this video.