Healthy Food For All: Encouraging Grocery Investment in Colorado

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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.

Common Market Video

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Common Market connects wholesale customers to farmers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware by marketing and distributing good food to schools, hospitals, grocers and workplaces. This video talks about the food hub and its benefits to the local community.

Building Capacity in Evaluating Outcomes

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This webinar discusses the importance of outcome measurement, organizational readiness for outcome, measurement, and organizational barriers in evaluation.

Baltimore targets 'food deserts'-Neighborhoods lack access to affordable, healthy food

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Baltimore is launching programs to provide healthier eating options. They're trying to lure new grocery stores and expanding a system for low-income residents to order healthy food online for delivery.

Baltimore City Food Policy Task Force Recommendations

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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.

Healthy Food Retail Lending Financing Guidelines

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A fact sheet on Reinvestment Fund's Retail Lending Guidelines.

Healthy Food, Healthy Communities: Improving Access and Opportunities through Food Retailing

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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.

Getting to Grocery; Tools for Attracting Healthy Food Retail to Underserved Communities

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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.

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