Advancing Food Security in New Jersey
Working with partners to increase equitable access to healthy foods for New Jersey families.
Accessible, nutritious food is essential to achieving health. Yet hunger and food insecurity continue threatening the health and wellbeing of many New Jerseyans, especially families of color.
As part of our commitment to advance health equity in New Jersey, we support efforts to help end hunger, enhance equitable access to healthier food retail options in under-resourced areas, and improve food security in our home state.
Prioritizing Equitable and Innovative Approaches to Food Access in New Jersey
To advance the New Jersey Food Security Initiative (NJFSI), the New Jersey Innovative Healthy Food Retail Initiative is launching a Request for Applications offering grant and technical assistance to promising organizations and enterprises to pilot, operate, expand, and sustain innovative models in neighborhoods with limited healthy food retail options. Join a pre-application webinar on May 23rd.
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Combating Longstanding Food Insecurity and Health Inequity
The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) announced the launch of the New Jersey Food Security Initiative (NJFSI), a collaboration of community organizations, local, and state agencies aimed at helping to end hunger and advance health equity in the state through innovative solutions.
Hunger and Its Solutions in New Jersey
A report from the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) provides a landscape analysis of current Initiatives, recommended action, and emerging opportunities for further Investment.
Supplemental Brief on the Landscape of the Federal Food Nutrition Programs
This brief provides further information on the landscape of federal nutrition programs in New Jersey, including program basics, who administers the program, and program participation. Leveraging the federal nutrition programs is a key strategy to help reduce and prevent food insecurity effectively and equitably.
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