Good Food for All: San Francisco Hospitals and Jails Commit to Improve Food Purchasing Katie Ettman SPUR Two years after beginning an assessment of their food purchasing practices, the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office and the Department of Public Health will start aligning these practices with standards aimed at improving the [...]
Animal Wellness Applauds San Francisco for Landmark Food Procurement Policy Animal Wellness Action EIN Presswire In a unanimous vote, the City and County of San Francisco has introduced standards and goals for food purchasing by the Department of Public Health and Sheriff’s Department in hospitals and jails that promote more [...]
Advancing Health Equity in Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Food Policy Council PITTSBURGH, PA (July 21, 2020) Pittsburgh Food Policy Council (PFPC) and PghFoodTeam today announced it has been selected to receive a grant as part of the Healthiest Cities & Counties Challenge (#Communities4Health), a program funded by the Aetna Foundation, together with the [...]
Escondido School District Commits to Good Food Purchasing Program Hoa Quach Times of San Diego The Escondido Union School District Board of Education recently voted to commit to the Good Food Purchasing Program, according to a press release. The Good Food Purchasing Program, locally spearheaded by the San Diego Food [...]
Escondido Union School District First Institution to Adopt Good Food Purchasing Program in San Diego County FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sara Wacker, APR (858) 945-1104 Sara@SaraWackerAPR.com Escondido, Calif. (June 25, 2020) – On June 25, 2020, the Escondido Union School District Board of Education unanimously voted to commit to the [...]
Fund Connects Minority Farmers to Charities Serving the Hungry Carter Jones Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal Farmers who operate small and mid-size farms that produce fruits and vegetables are sitting on crops that are ready to harvest, but have nowhere to sell them as farmers markets, schools, corporate cafeterias [...]
School lunch as we know it is over. But for school nutrition directors, the lessons keep coming. Jessica Fu The Counter They overhaul their operations on the fly. They feed families now, too. And they’re reinventing lunch programs for the coming year with fewer workers, untold variables, and multimillion-dollar budget [...]
Solidarity Message from the Twin Cities Good Food Purchasing Program Coalition "You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." - Angela Y. Davis Dear friends, These past few weeks have been a time of great [...]
With Schools Closed, Some Districts are Feeding More People than Food Banks Nadra Little Civil Eats School districts around the nation are handing out meals to students and adults alike. When the novel coronavirus pandemic led school districts across the country to close in March, questions grew about whether the [...]
DC Greens is Helping Residents Eat Better Through Social Justice Katie Howell Food Tank Food justice organizations are finding ways to use locally produced food to address equity in access, affordability, and health. DC Greens’ Produce Plus Program partners with farmers’ markets to distribute over US$800,000 annually to Washington, D.C. residents to [...]
