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Taking Small Steps Toward Culturally Competent Nutrition Education
The Nutrition Education Pod of the Healthy Food Community created a proposed framework that institutions could use to re-examine,...
Jun 30, 20232 min read
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Podcast: Strengthening Relationships Through a Community of Practice
How can a diverse range of organizations—each serving unique communities and each with its own goals and priorities—come together to push...
Jun 27, 20231 min read
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Summer Meals Resource List
With summer rapidly approaching, many organizations are working hard to ensure children have access to the meals they need while schools...
May 18, 20233 min read
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Shifting Power to Communities Through Participatory Grantmaking
How can we redesign food and nutrition programs to serve communities that are furthest from systemic power? How might we concentrate more...
Mar 2, 20233 min read
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Coming Together to Reflect, Recharge, and Reimagine
In October, about 40 people gathered in Santa Ana Pueblo, NM, for the first in-person convening of the Healthy Food Community since it...
Nov 30, 20223 min read
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Putting Communities First: A Proposed Community Nutrition Education Framework for Institutions
The Nutrition Education Pod of the Healthy Food Community worked together to draft a proposed framework that institutions could use to...
Nov 11, 20221 min read
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Informing the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
On June 30, 2022 the Healthy Food Community of Practice conducted a virtual listening session via Zoom open to its members, their...
Oct 18, 20221 min read
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Interested in working with Tribal communities? Consider these 6 things first.
By Maria Givens (Coeur d’Alene Tribe) This article was informed by the work of the Healthy Food Community Tribal Advisory Council,...
Sep 1, 20217 min read
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The Pandemic's Impact on Nutrition Assistance Programs
COVID-19 and its impact on the economy created a significant increase in the number of people requesting nutrition benefits in the United...
May 19, 20211 min read
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"This Is the Moment" — A video about the Healthy Food Community of Practice
This community of practice is starting something powerful. We want others to glimpse the ways the community of practice is breaking down...
May 6, 20212 min read
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What We Can Learn From the Pandemic To Close the Nutrition Gap
We call on policymakers and funders to take action to address food and nutrition insecurity in this country for the long term.
Apr 7, 20217 min read
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2020 in Review: Community Members’ Experiences Since COVID Began and Hopes for the Months Ahead
How five organizations pivoted to serve their communities amid the pandemic and what they see as critical needs in the months ahead.
Nov 30, 20206 min read
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Three Opportunities for Healthy Food Organizations
The pandemic revealed cracks in our food system but also highlighted opportunities. What could it look like to create stronger, more just...
Nov 30, 20202 min read
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Breaking Down Silos to Pursue Food Justice
Since COVID-19 began, many people in the food space are talking about how we can emerge with new food systems that center justice.
Nov 30, 20204 min read
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