healthy food financing policy - healthy food financing initiativepowerpoint presentation
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Click to edit Master title styleHealthy Food Financing Initiative
A national campaign initiated by PolicyLink, The Food Trust, and The Reinvestment Fund
Goal: To improve access to healthy food in low-income,
underserved rural, suburban, & urban communities
Click to edit Master title styleDiverse Support for HFFIPartial List of National Supporters
• Community Food Security Coalition
• Children’s Defense Fund• NAACP• Center for Rural Strategies• American Public Health
Association• American Heart Association• National WIC Association• Local Initiatives Support
Corporation (LISC)• Consumers Union• National Congress of
American Indians
• Opportunity Finance Network• Food Marketing Institute• National Grocers Association• United Fresh Produce
Association• Fair Food Network• Food Research and Action
Center• Wallace Center at Winrock
International• The United Methodist Church• Save the Children
Click to edit Master title styleHealthy Food Financing Initiative
• President Obama requests $330 million for a national Healthy Food Financing Initiative in his 2012 budget proposal
Click to edit Master title styleLet’s Move Initiative
1. Healthy Choices2. Healthy Schools3. Physical Activity4. Access to Healthy
Foods
http://www.letsmove.gov
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Administered by:
• USDA
• HHS
• Treasury (CDFI Fund)
Budget Allocation:
• $35 million
• $20 million
• $25 million &• $250 million NMTCs
2012 Budget Proposal
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• NOFAs– Treasury– Health and Human Services
• USDA, HHS, Treasury – joint website at http://apps.ams.usda.gov/fooddeserts/foodDeserts.aspx
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Legislation Introduced in 2010
Lead sponsors in Senate
Sen. Gillibrand (NY)
Lead sponsors in House
Rep. Schwartz (PA)Rep. Burgess (TX)Rep. Blumenauer (OR)
Will be reintroduced in 2011
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• www.policylink.org/ KeepMeInformed/HFFI– Updates– E-advocacy
opportunities
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