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

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• 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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