Walk Score announced the ranking of the best and worst U.S. cities for access to food. The ranking measures access to healthy food by calculating the percent of people in a city who can walk to a grocery store in 5 minutes.

This toolkit provides  facts, and guidance on how to build, engage, and mobilize a social change movement in your state or community on this critical issue.  The toolkit is wrapped together by a unique theme designed to maximize interest and action on schools foods.

A study indicating what type of products dominate grocery shelves across California, which highlights what is available -  and not available - in grocery stores. The Healthy Stores for a Healthy Community campaign is a statewide collaboration between tobacco use prevention, nutrition, and alcohol prevention partners.

On March 20-21, less than two months after the farm bill authorized a Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), HFFI stakeholders gathered in Washington, DC, for the Third National Conversation on Improving Access to Healthy Food.

Children consume a significant portion of their daily calories at school; when schools have healthy foods and beverages in cafeterias and vending machines, children eat better. But what if families don’t have access to healthy food when their children come home from school?

Without access to healthy foods, a nutritious diet and good health are out of reach. And access to healthy food brings a triple bottom-line benefit to communities – a revitalized economy, new jobs, and better health. These benefits also advance equity, the fair and just inclusion of all residents in communities.

Join co-sponsors MomsRising and PolicyLink for a healthy food access portal webinar that will draw connections between efforts to bring healthy food to schools and the movement for healthy food access in communities across the country. Speakers will share their successes and strategies for overcoming challenges in their work and provide recommendations to the broader community of advocates and practitioners.

Featured Speakers:
•    Allison Hagey, Associate Director, PolicyLink (moderator)
•    Monifa Bandele, Senior Campaign Director, MomsRising
•    Sheilah Davidson, Policy Program Manager, School Food Focus
•    Dara Cooper, Director, New York Food and Fitness Partnership

This resource provides a guide for those interested in working with local Kansas governments to use local laws to enhance and support the growth and vitality of local farmers’ markets. Please consider the questions posed in the guide in order to understand how to move forward and develop, refine, and enhance your community’s farmers’ market.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) is the nation’s most important anti-hunger program.  In 2013, it helped more than 47 million low-income Americans to afford a nutritionally adequate diet in a typical month. Seventy percent of SNAP participants are in families with children; more than one-quarter of participants are in households with seniors or people with disabilities.

This chart book highlights some key characteristics of the more than 47 million people using the program as well as trends and data on program administration and use. 

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) is the nation’s most important anti-hunger program, reaching nearly 47 million people nationwide in 2013 alone. These fact sheets provide state-by-state data on who participates in the SNAP program, the benefits they receive, and SNAP’s role in strengthening the economy.

In Maryland, limited access to nutritious food is a statewide issue that affects both urban neighborhoods and rural communities. This report addresses the results from a study by The Reinvestment Fund (TRF) aimed at understanding the inequity of access in Maryland and providing a framework for the State as it works to address the issue.