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The Multnomah County Healthy Retail Initiative and the Village Market: A...
November 17, 2011, Blue Oregon A detailed update on two Healthy Retail Programs in Multnomah County, Oregon (Portland Area), both launched in 2011. Multnomah County’s Healthy Retail Initiative has 20...
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Humboldt Park corner stores get fresh
November 9, 2011, The NW Passage A new Healthy Corner Store program launched in the Humboldt Park community of Chicago. Run by the the local community and economic development organization West...
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Rochester’s New Heatlhy Mini-Market
November 9, 2011, City Newspaper While the City of Rochester, NY, is trying to limit the opening of new min-markets, the North East Area Development neighborhood gro
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HCSN Issue Brief. The Supplier-Retailer Gap: Connecting Corner Stores with...
The Winter 2011 Healthy Corner Stores Network Issue Brief is here! Has your program struggled with sourcing fresh, local foods for corner stores? The Supplier-Retailer Gap: Connecting Corner Stores...
View ArticleSnapshot of Philadelphia’s Healthy Corner Store Program
A snapshot of The Food Trust’s Snackn’ Fresh Program, featuring Healthy Corner Stores Network Co-convener Brianna Sandavol.
View ArticlePop-up Neighborhoods–Interesting Concept for Healthy Retail?
Oakland has a new Pop-up Neighborhood–five stores all opening at the same time in formally unoccupied block of downtown. They will receive free rent for six months, as well as marketing advice from the...
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Louisville Adds Two New Healthy Corner Stores
City Unveils Two New ‘Healthy in a Hurry Stores’ WFPL News, Dec. 12, 2011 The six and seventh “Healthy in a Hurry Stores” open in Louisville, Kentucky, part of of the Mayor’s Healthy Hometown...
View ArticleCity-wide push to offer fresh produce, vegetables in low-income areas
Wave3.com, Dec. 12, 2011 Highlights of the newest addition to Healthy in a Hurry program in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Study Shows That In-Store Signage Reduces Consumption of Sugary Beverages
A new study from the American Journal of Public Health documents that signage can prevent teens from buying soda in four Baltimore corner stores. Interestingly, it is not the calorie count that was the...
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Access to Healthy Foods Toolkit
This introductory toolkit from Policy Link provides information on four popular strategies used to help low-income and communities of color increase access to healthy, fresh, and affordable food....
View ArticleLouisville given award, $150,000 for health initiatives
January 18, 2012. Business First Louisville has been honored for its efforts to combat youth obesity by being awarded the first Childhood Obesity Prevention award at the U.S. Conference of Mayors...
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Grant to help bring fresh food to corner stores
January 23, 2012 Milwaukee Neighborhood News Services Lindsay Heights Health Alliance recently received a two-year $100,000 grant from the Healthy Wisconsin Partnership Program to develop the Healthy...
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New Agtivists: Brother-sister duo revamp the corner store
January 24, 2012. Grist Read an interview on why one brother-sister team in Atlanta opened up a small grocery store in their old hood, along with some of the obstacles they faced along the way.
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For diabetes patients, oases in the food desert
February 1, 2012. Chicago Tribune Diabetes patients in Chicago often live in neighborhoods without nearby supermarkets. The Healthy HotSpot Corner Stores Pilot Program (started in November) is...
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Green for Greens: Finding Public Financing for Healthy Food Retail
January, 2012 Green for Greens: Finding Public Financing for Healthy Food Retail is a new publication from HCSN co-conveners Public Health Law and Policy. Bringing healthy food to “food deserts”...
View ArticleHCSN March 13, 2012 Webinar. Licensing Laws: A New Tool for Healthy Food
Licensing Laws: A New Tool for Healthy Food Date & Time: Tuesday, March 13th at 10 a.m. PST Registration Website: https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/s/showReg?udc=1te94bzrxg7l What would it take to get...
View ArticleThinking outside the Big Box: Strategies for Healthy Food Retail
Slides from a presentation at the Community Food Security Coalition Conference, held November 6, 2011 in Oakland, California, on various strategies used for increasing healthy food retail in...
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Small Steps for Fresh Produce in a Food Desert
February 8, 2012. Chicago News Cooperative This article gives an update on Chicago’s fight against food deserts. It covers some of the challenges store owners face, but also how this strategy is...
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Nashville Healthy Corner Store Gets A Makeover
February 11, 2012. NewsChannel5.com. Follow the link to a video highlighting renovations at the first of five new healthy corner stores in Nashville, part of the “So Fresh” campaign.
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Another Corner Market In East Los Angeles Transformed
February 16, 2012. Eastern Group Publications, Inc. “I like the way this is set up. I like the convenience. When you see pretty fruits and vegetables you just want to come,” — Diana Razo, 50, a long...
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