Food Access and Security Learning Community Calls

October 21, 2021

This meeting focused on reconciling emergency food response with need for food systems reform, but also covered several other topics (i.e., lifting-up grassroots voices and ending philanthropic paternalism; looking at natural disasters, equity, and food systems in addition to health outcomes and SDOH; climate change’s impacts on food systems; environmental justice and food systems; what the current public health response looks like with food systems; and investing at the federal and local policy levels).

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Food Access and Security Learning Community Calls

October 21, 2021

This call provided an opportunity for participants to share feedback on the 2020 Fall Forum meeting, Food for a Healthier America. 

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Food Access and Security Learning Community Calls

October 21, 2021

This meeting of the learning community focused on addressing food equity and the role of philanthropy.  The meeting featured Navina Khanna of HEAL Food Alliance, who presented and spoke with attendees. 

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Food Access and Security Learning Community Calls

October 21, 2021

This meeting focused on the response to COVID-19, the opportunities and challenges moving beyond the immediate response to meaningful systems change, and the role funders might play in this work. The meeting featured Brian Lang and Caroline Harries from The Food Trust as presenters and discussants.  

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Nutrition Incentives: Lessons and Opportunities to Improve Healthy Food Access

July 29, 2021

This webinar discussed how these effective nutrition incentive programs have enabled vibrant public-private partnerships across the country, the current state of the field and research, and the opportunities for health funders to leverage these opportunities to improve healthy food access.

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2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Good Food Purchasing: A Roadmap for the Post-Pandemic Food System We Need

June 21, 2021

This Quick Take will share and highlight key pillars for successful food system transformation using values-based procurement; stories of leadership, innovation, and perseverance; recommended actions and investments needed to accelerate change at the scale and pace we need; and a vision for movement building, policy, and action to transform our food system over the next ten years.

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2022 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy

June 15, 2021

The 2022 Grantmakers In Health Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy will be held June 27-29 virtually and in Miami Beach, Florida. The GIH Annual Conference is the best place to meet up with the bright minds, seasoned experts, and innovative practitioners working in health philanthropy today.

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Making Healthy School Food Accessible: Key Lessons from the Pandemic

April 19, 2021

This webinar discussed the challenges school meal programs are facing due to the pandemic, key lessons learned, and roles grantmakers can play to ensure that schools and communities are equipped for success.

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2020 Fall Forum: Food for a Healthier America

October 1, 2020

Food for a Healthier America examined current food access and security policy, the gaps and challenges laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic, the opportunities for positive policy change, and philanthropy’s role in creating a more equitable and just food system.

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