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”.

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.

Tithe California Financial Opportunities Roundtable (CalFOR) organized to identify roadblocks and develop recommendations for leveraging existing resources and expanding opportunities for sustainable economic development, job growth and wealth creation – the result of those deliberations is this guidebook. Solutions range from micro-finance to new bonding authorities as well as innovations within traditional investment classes.

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A report to promote green design approaches for grocery stores

This PolicyLink report addresses the limited access that many residents of low-income communities and communities of color have to affordable, healthy food. Without opportunities to purchase healthy food, residents in low-income communities have limited options for healthy eating and often resort to purchasing and consuming unhealthy foods that are often found at local corner stores or fast food restaurants. This contributes to obesity, and ultimately, to poor health. This report builds on earlier work about the effects of community factors on health that was developed by PolicyLink in partnership with The California Endowment in the report, Reducing Health Disparities Through a Focus on Communities.

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.

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

The study looks a values-driven wholesale distributor of food grown in Philadelphia can fit the needs of consumers and markets, it also develops a model that allows start-ups to grow their distribution enterprise.

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.