NFG January 2011 Teleconference Series

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

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

Co-hosted by Grantmakers in Health (GIH), Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders (SAFSF), and NFG

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 underserved communities.

On this call, we will learn 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 your own state. Funders interested in learning more about food access issues, sustainable economic development models, and alternative models at finance food initiatives will learn how these cutting edge models have formed and what is being learned along the way.

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

RSVP:  To register please send an e-mail to heal@gih.org by January 26

You will receive the call-in number and related materials the day before the call.

Please note that this is a funder-only audioconference.  While you should feel free to share this notice with funder colleagues, please do not disseminate it more broadly.