Developing State-Level Healthy Food Financing Initiatives: New Examples from California and New York

Cohosted by Grantmakers In Health, The Neighborhood Funders Group, and The Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders

When:

Thursday, January 27, 2011, at 2:30 p.m. Eastern / 1:30 p.m. Central / 12:30 p.m. Mountain / 11:30 a.m. Pacific

Who:

• Tina Castro, Charles Fields, and Marion Standish, The California Endowment
• Judi Kende and Katie Scallon, The Low Income Investment Fund

What:

Building on Pennsylvania’s well-established Fresh Food Financing Initiative and the federal government’s recently launched Healthy Food Financing Initiative, California and New York have developed similar programs in their own states to offer tax credits, below-market rate loans, loan guarantees, and grants to organizations providing healthy foods to under served communities.

On this webinar, participants learned about how the California and New York Initiatives got started, the varying roles of foundations and the state governments, progress made so far, and recommendations for starting a similar initiative in their own state.

Related Content

• Overview – PDF document, 136 KB
• New York Presentation – PDF document, 563 KB
• California Presentation – PDF document, 718 KB