This webinar features a discussion with transportation and civil rights experts about how to shape a federal surface transportation bill that creates strong, healthy, communities of opportunity.

This Altarum Institute Policy Roundtable examined innovative approaches, including financial incentives, to encourage healthy food choices by SNAP program participants. We also examined the added economic benefit that can occur when more SNAP dollars are spent on local food and circulate in the local economy.  Speakers from Altarum’s Center for Food Assistance and Nutrition, the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Fair Food Network, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation discussed what is being tested, and what is known to be working, in this critical effort to improve health status through healthier food purchases supported by SNAP.

Limited retail access to healthy foods affects the dietary patterns and health outcomes of many Americans.  In this webinar, speakers discuss how new research and evaluation practices are helping to generate innovative solutions that stimulate change in local communities. * Sign up here to be alerted when the new Grocery Gap is released.

Local grocery stores are a critical anchor institution sustaining America’s rural communities. This webinar highlights Kansas State University's Rural Grocery Initiative and its research to better understand the challenges and needs of these small businesses. Learn how one CDFI, Coastal Enterprises, Inc., is working to provide financing to rural grocery stores to improve access to healthy foods.

This webinar is about preliminary store design. It covers how and when to work with a store designer, discusses preliminary design and its importance and what store equipment is needed and the cost.

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

Food hubs, or regional food aggregation and coordination facilities, offer great promise for systemic social and environmental change. This webinar provides a clear illustration of the variety of models that exist, the outcomes they offer, and a sense of their viability, focusing on key elements of successful food hubs.

The Farmers Market Coalition seeks to strengthen farmers' markets' capacity to serve farmers, consumers, and communities by providing the rapidly growing movement with information, tools, and representation at state and federal levels. The Farmers Market Coalition helps build networks, link peers, inspire leadership, and connect farmers markets old and new with resources for success.