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Farmer's Market & Philly Food Bucks Report (2013)

Overview

The eight Get Healthy Philly (GHP) markets—opened between 2010 and 2011 in partnership with the Department of Public Health—and The Food Trust’s other farmers’ markets continue to grow along various measures of success: SNAP sales, Philly Food Bucks redemptions, customer and farmer survey data, WIC and Senior FMNP sales, customer counts, and number of operating market days. This report summarizes and evaluates the impact, reach and key lessons learned from the 2013 farmers’ market season and the fourth season of the Philly Food Bucks program.

A Healthier Future for Miami-Dade County: Expanding Supermarket Access in Areas of Need

Overview

This report documents the uneven distribution of supermarket access throughout Miami-Dade County and identifies areas in greatest need of healthy food retail development.The lack of supermarket access and increased incidence of diet-relateddiseases in lower-income neighborhoods suggest the need for incentiveprograms and policies to support healthy food retail development inunderserved areas.

Understanding the Role of Community Development Finance in Improving Access to Healthy Food

Overview

Describes the role CDFIs play in financing healthy food retail and identifies how public health practitioners can partner with CDFIs to expand access to fresh, healthy food. CDFIs offer an alternative to conventional lending for financing supermarkets and other small businesses. The flexibility they provide in financing projects can help retailers offset the higher cost of opening stores in underserved areas.

Building Community Based Farmer's Markets: A Practical Guide

Overview

This practice brief by Food Dignity describes the development of East New York Farmers Market in Brooklyn as one of country's largest community based markets, highlighting lessons learned about the essential combination of people, products, and place.  

Healthy Neighborhood Store Alliance Toolkit

Overview

The Healthy Neighborhood Store Alliance (HNSA) Toolkit offers resources and tools to help communities transform neighborhood corner stores into local access points for healthy food and fresh produce. HSNA is a program through Mandela Marketplace, a non-profit organization that works in partnership with local residents, family farmers, and community-based businesses to improve health, create wealth, and build assets through cooperative food enterprises in West Oakland, California and other low income communities.

 

Healthier Corner Stores

Overview

Corner stores—often thought of as a source of unhealthy foods—can be key partners in the effort to improve access to healthy, affordable foods. In Philadelphia alone, a network of 660 corner stores committed to healthy change has introduced 25,000 healthier products to store shelves, making it easier for families in lower-income communities to eat a healthy diet.

Too Few Choices, Too Much Junk: Connecting Food & Health Summary

Overview

Summary of the Grantmakers in Health issue brief discussing the intersection of food and health, which focuses on food insecurity, access to healthy food, community food security, and health.

Too Few Choices, Too Much Junk: Connecting Food & Health

Overview

This report discusses the intersection of food and health. The program focused on the current U.S. food system and approaches that foundations can employ to improve food access and nutrition. For many families, food insecurity means having to decide between paying for food and paying for housing, heat, electricity, water, transportation, childcare, or health care.

An Evaluation of the New York City Green Cart Initiative to Expand Access to Healthy Produce in Low-income Neighborhoods

Overview

New York City’s Green Cart initiative has increased access to healthy food in otherwise underserved high-density and low-income neighborhoods, influenced customers’ consumption of fruits and vegetables, and created jobs for immigrant entrepreneurs, according to researchers at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). The researchers suggest the program can and should be replicated in urban areas across the country.

Common Market Case Study: Rebuilding a Regional Food Economy and Increasing Access to Healthy Food

Overview

Common Market is a regional food hub whose mission is to increase the availability of local, sustainably grown farm food throughout Philadelphia and surrounding areas. This case study provides an in-depth look at Common Market's growth and development, including efforts to build financial sustainability. 

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