WEBINAR-Public and Private Grant and Loan Programs to Create or Expand Healthy Food Retail

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WEBINAR-Public and Private Grant and Loan Programs to Create or Expand Healthy Food Retail

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This webinar provides an overview of the “Find Money” section of the Healthy Food Retail Portal and provide examples of specific federal, state and local resources that can be tapped to create or expand healthy food retail opportunities in underserved communities.

WEBINAR-Healthy Food Financing: From Advocacy to Implementation

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Across the country local stakeholders are adopting methods and strategies to improve access to healthy foods by advocating for policy change. This webinar uses The Food Trust’s recently published Healthy Food Financing Handbook: From Advocacy to Implementation to discuss how these efforts have led to the creation of healthy food financing initiatives at the city, state and federal level. This webinar offers a roadmap for how to successfully advocate for initiatives that improve access to healthy food through the development of healthy food retail. Additionally, the webinar provides an overview of how healthy food financing initiatives are administered by government agencies, community development financial institutions, and food access organizations. 

WEBINAR-Financing Healthy Food Retail 2.0: Tools and Resources for Effective Program Implementation

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Across the country healthy food financing initiatives and programs are helping to increase access to nutritious foods for millions of Americans. Terms such as "food desert" and "underserved" have become commonplace, yet clear definitions can be elusive and vary by state and program. Other challenges include building a robust pipeline of applicants and marketing the program effectively, as well as attracting additional investment to support projects. This webinar discusses how these initiatives are being administered by community development financial institutions (CDFIs) and food access organizations on the local and state level. Audience members learn how program administrators determine the eligibility of projects in areas of need, employ marketing and outreach strategies to attract grocery applicants, and attract additional  investments to healthy food financing programs. Speakers share best practices and case studies from the field. Click here to playthe recording.

Access to Healthy Food and Why It Matters

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PolicyLink and The Food Trust present The Grocery Gap, the most comprehensive review of studies of healthy food access and its impacts, reaffirming that access to healthy food is a critical component of healthy, thriving communities:

The Healthy Food Financing Handbook: From Advocacy to Implementation

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This handbook lays out a detailed approach to developing state and local policies that encourage the development of healthy food stores in underserved communities.

WEBINAR-New Markets Tax Credit

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The New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program incentivizes private investment in low-income communities by permitting individual and corporate investors to receive a tax credit against their federal income tax return in exchange for making equity investments in specialized financial institutions called Community Development Entities (CDEs). The NMTC program has a proven track record in expanding access to healthy foods by encouraging private sector investment in underserved communities. This webinar serves as an introduction to a complex financing tool and explores some examples of how NMTCs are being used to finance a variety of projects designed to improve access to healthy foods.

WEBINAR-Healthy Food Retail in Rural Communities

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Rural grocery stores anchor a community by supplying fresh foods and staples; creating local jobs; attracting complementary businesses; and increasing the tax base. Today they are under siege because of competition with “big box” stores for customers; high energy costs, the inability to buy products in small quantities; elderly owners with no succession plans, and low population density. This webinar explores the unique challenges that rural grocers face and discuss innovative solutions to improving access to healthy foods in rural America.

Stimulating Supermarket Development in Bi-State Kansas City

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Too many residents of bi-state Kansas City lack sufficient access to healthy, affordable food. Despite being in the heart of one of the richest agricultural regions in the nation, bi-state Kansas City is home to many communities without supermarkets, grocery stores and other retailers of healthy food. Limited access to nutritious food is an issue in specific neighborhoods, such as Douglas Sumner in Kansas City, Kansas, and Ivanhoe and Marlborough in Kansas City, Missouri. To address these concerns, the Kansas City Grocery Access Task Force was convened by KC Healthy Kids, IFF and The Food Trust. The task force is a cohort of leaders from the grocery industry, state and local governments, as well as the community and economic development, public health and civic sectors. The task force developed nine recommendations for state and local public policies that will improve the availability of healthy, affordable food in underserved areas through the development of supermarkets and grocery stores.

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

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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.

Economic and Community Development Outcomes of Healthy Food Retail

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Illustrates the connection between improved healthy food access and resulting economic and community development, encouraging readers to include assessment of economic outcomes in their healthy food access research agenda, and provides evidence to support decision makers in advancing healthy food policies.

2013 Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) Grantee List

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FY 2013 Healthy Food Financing Initiative Grantees.

Green for Greens: Finding Public Funding for Healthy Food Retail

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This guide, developed by ChangeLab Solutions, provides a general overview of economic development and ideas for how to approach economic development agencies with healthy food retail proposals. It also provides a comprehensive overview of local, state, and federal economic development programs that have been or could be used for healthy food retail projects.

Regional Food Hub Resource Guide

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A guide on food hub impacts on regional food systems and the resources available to support their growth and development.

Building Successful Food Hubs in Illinois

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A resource for communities, businesses, not-for-profits, and others interested in establishing food hubs. This guide includes descriptions of key functions, best practices, and “how-to” strategies for food hub establishment and operation that are based on successful models operating in other regions that have been specifically adapted for application in Illinois.

Stimulating Supermarket Development in Maryland

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This reports includes policy recommendations to stimulate fresh food retail development in Maryland to improve fresh food access in underserved communities. 

Stimulating Grocery Development in Minnesota

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This reports includes policy recommendations to stimulate healthy food retail development in Minnesota to improve healthy food access in underserved communities throughout the state.

Stimulating Grocery Retail Development in Mississippi

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This report includes policy recommendations to stimulate healthy food retail development in Mississippi to improve healthy food access in underserved communities throughout the state. 

Stimulating Supermarket Development in Tennesee

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This report includes policy recommendations to stimulate healthy food retail development in Tennessee to improve healthy food access in underserved communities throughout the state. 

Roadmap to Encouraging Grocery Development: Houston Grocery Access Task Force

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This report includes policy recommendations to stimulate healthy food retail development in the Houston area to improve healthy food access in underserved communities throughout the state. 

Expanding New Jersey's Supermarkets: A New Day for the Garden State

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This report includes policy recommendations to stimulate healthy food retail development in New Jersey to improve healthy food access in underserved communities across the state. 

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