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.
Explores the goals of HFFI, its modes of financing, and its range of interventions intended to expand the supply and demand for nutritious food and help eliminate food deserts.
This webinar discusses how to identify and leverage financing mechanisms to create healthier food options in local communities, and heard from people who have experience launching and sustaining successful projects.
A guide describing grants and programs relevant to regional and local food systems development to help people take advantage of them and receive program funding.
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 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.
A webinar that examines ways to finance a co-op, modes of achieving sources of capital and strategies to work with primary lenders.