GreenChill’s Store Certification Program for Food Retailers recognizes individual stores for using environmentally friendlier commercial refrigeration systems. Any food retail store in the United States, whether in the design phase, remodel phase, newly constructed, or fully operational, can apply for GreenChill’s Store Certification Award.

Outlines how staff are to be treated and compensated, as outlined in the monitoring report. Tools and templates are also provided.

M. Gallagher coined the now-popular term "food desert." At the Consumer Cooperative Management Association 2011 conference, M. Gallagher shares some of her ideas for solutions that food co-ops can create.

A presentation on food hubs. The slides provide an overview of this unique food system and uses case studies to demonstrate its feasibility and viability. There is also a brief section on financials.

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.

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”.

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.