Food System Focus Area: Public Health and Healthy Food Access

Healthy Food Access Portal

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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