Category Archives: Food & Food Systems
Food Financing 101: Part 3
December 15, 2011The final installment of our Food Finance mini series Creating Opportunity Along the Entire Food Chain By Nessa Richman Brightseed Strategies Founder and President The goal of the federal Healthy Food Finance Initiative (HFFI) is to increase the availability of … Continue reading
Food Financing 101: Part 2
December 13, 2011Continuing our Food Finance mini series from last week: Making it Happen Across the Country By Pam Porter Executive Vice President, Strategic Consulting Opportunity Finance Network We all agree that too many communities across the country have very limited access to … Continue reading
Food Financing 101: Part 1
December 8, 2011Pennsylvania’s Initiative Becomes the Model for the Nation By Patricia Smith Senior Policy Advisor The Reinvestment Fund The Reinvestment Fund (TRF), a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), creates opportunity in low-wealth communities through socially and environmentally responsible development. In 2004, … Continue reading
Food Financing 101: An Introduction
December 7, 2011Creating a Multi-Faceted Policy Solution for a Multi-Faceted Food System Problem Introduction by Alison Hastings Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission Financing healthy food businesses, like financing any other type of small business or community development, involves acquiring knowledge about a … Continue reading
Who Needs a Food System Plan Anyway?
November 15, 2011By Alison Hastings Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission A few weeks ago, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) accepted an award for its Food System Plan, Eating Here (PDF) from the American Planning Association’s Pennsylvania Chapter. The project was honored … Continue reading
Making Every Day a Food Day
October 5, 2011By Alison Hastings and Emily Lehman, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission with Amanda Wagner, City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s Get Healthy Philly Program, Laila Goldberg, The Food Trust, and Alethia Calbeck, Philly Homegrown. As part of the first National Food Day … Continue reading
Which Comes First? The Chicken or the Egg? Supply or Demand?
September 28, 2011By Mary Seton Corboy and Matthew Brener, Greensgrow Farm with Alison Hastings, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission Part 2 Picking up where we left off on Monday, we learned that Greensgrow Farm built an innovative mobile farmers market in Camden, but… … Continue reading
Which Comes First? The Chicken or the Egg? Supply or Demand?
September 26, 2011By Mary Seton Corboy and Matthew Brener, Greensgrow Farm with Alison Hastings, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission Part 1 It was only last year that Greensgrow, a Philadelphia-based urban farm and food hub, was invited by the New Jersey Department … Continue reading
In Food Policy, Everything is Local… and Personal
August 3, 2011By Alison Hastings Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission Every few months, I check the COMFOOD email folder I set up on my personal Yahoo email account and hunker down at my desk for multiple hours with a notepad, a pen, … Continue reading
Will the Real Family Farmer Please Stand up?
June 30, 2011By Michelle Knapik Environment Program Director The beauty of the Sustainable Ag and Food System Funders Conference is its recipe for learning and relationship building. There were panel sessions that offered a rich mix of historical perspectives, policy issues, and movement … Continue reading
Re-imagining the Work of Ending Hunger, Part 2
June 29, 2011A pay what you can café? With locally-sourced food and compostable take-out containers? You bet. New Brunswick based Elijah’s Promise is rethinking the traditional models of alleviating and ending hunger. Read more to learn about A Better World Café. And … Continue reading
Re-imagining the Work of Ending Hunger, Part 1
June 22, 2011Please welcome Rev. Lisanne Finston, the Executive Director of Elijah’s Promise, to the Dodge blog today. Based in New Brunswick, Elijah’s Promise’s mission is to empower lives, invite justice, and alleviate hunger, which they do in many creative, thoughtful and … Continue reading
Local Farmers’ Markets Bring Good Food and Big Smiles to New Jersey Communities
June 20, 2011Dodge grantee Hunterdon Land Trust is a leader in the preservation and stewardship of Hunterdon county’s rural landscapes and natural resources, having protected more than 5,000 acres of farms, forests, and fields throughout the county since 1996. Under the inspired and thoughtful … Continue reading
When eBay Meets eHarmony for Young Farmers
April 25, 2011Today is the last in our guest series with the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission and their partners on strengthening our regional food system. As you will read today, the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) is working creatively to … Continue reading
Eating Fresh Here: Farm to School Systems Change
April 18, 2011Let’s talk about food. Today’s blog post, part of the continuing series with Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission on strengthening our regional food systems, comes from another grantee, Fair Food, who is thinking about access to fresh foods as a … Continue reading