Grow Your Business with Equity: Strategies to Advance Equity in Farmers' Markets

Overview

Bringing a farmers’ market into your neighborhood offers great opportunities to advanceequity in your community. Involving the local community not only helps strengthen business but also contributes to the economic vitality of the area. This resource provides some strategies for creating farmers’ markets where all community members can participate and prosper.

The Key Players Involved in Healthy Food Retail Strategies

Overview

The following is a guide of many of the key players involved in a healthy food retail project or program. Most healthy food retail projects will involve several of these key players.

HFFI Grantee Map

Overview

Map which shows the location, grantee, and financing initiatives.

Do You Live in a Food Desert?

Overview

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.

Make Food Choices an Easy "A"

Overview

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.

Healthy Stores for a Healthy Community

Overview

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.

National Convening Builds Toward Equitable Food System

Overview

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.

Policy Basics: Introduction to SNAP

Overview

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.

Chart Book: SNAP Helps Struggling Families Put Food on the Table

Overview

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. 

A Closer Look at Who Benefits from SNAP: State-by-State Fact Sheets

Overview

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.

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