The Healthy Food Access Portal provides resources designed to improve healthy food access in communities, build local economies, and enhance public health. An amazing resource for funders and practitioners alike this website creates a learning network that's using retail strategies to connect consumers to healthy food. Find out about...
Food System Focus Area: Public Health and Healthy Food Access
Food System Focus Areas
A "food system" includes all activities involving the production, processing, distribution, purchase, consumption, and disposal of food. Due to the vast network of people, places, and entities involved, a food system is intricately linked to many (if not all) other...
Ample Table for Everyone (ATE)
Ample table for everyone works to mitigate food insecurity in New York City by addressing the key causes: lack of time, lack of money, inaccessibility to nutritious food, and unfamiliarity with a variety of healthy ingredients, cooking methods and recipes....
The John Merck Fund
Based in Boston, Massachusetts, The John Merck Fund (JMF) was established in 1970 by the late Serena Merck and is now in its third generation of family leadership. Starting in 2012, The John Merck Fund will spend all of its...
SPOILED: Corruption from Farm to Table
Journalists for Transparency, a collective of journalists and storytellers that seeks to explore issues of transparency and corruption around the globe, investigate food safety and security in their debut publication, SPOILED: Corruption from Farm to Table. SPOILED features nine articles from...
Levitt Foundation
Levitt Foundation funds "youth-powered food justice." Grants enable young people to learn about healthy eating and food systems AND take action to increase access to affordable fresh/nutritious foods in their own neighborhoods. The Foundation prefers neighborhood-based initiatives that engage young...
Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund (LMTIF) works to increase access and opportunity for all New Yorkers by supporting cross-cutting initiatives in areas from education and the arts, to healthy food and economic development, and beyond. LMTIF’s Healthy Food &...