Discusses how successful healthy food financing models use a combination of different kinds of capital (e.g., grant funding, grants that can be used as credit enhancement, debt capital, loan guarantees and New Market Tax Credits).

Mayor Sheila Dixon convened a Food Policy Task Force to develop recommendations to increase access to and consumption of healthy foods citywide. The Task Force was led by the Baltimore City Department of Planning and the Baltimore City Health Department. These are their recommendations.

The Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) provides a series of technical assistance webinars related to financing healthy food options. 

A press release announcing a statewide initiative aimed at spurring supermarket development throughout New Jersey’s urban centers The initiative is part of Governor Corzine’s overall Economic Recovery and Assistance Plan .            

Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno formally launches an expanded New Jersey Food Access Initiative (NJFAI) at the site of New Brunswick’s first full service supermarket in two decades.

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.