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36 Take Your Place Community Action Guide Innovative Models and Solutions Below are promising and successful examples of different approaches toward ensuring food security. When working toward ensuring food security in your community, it’s a good idea to have models that fall into each of the three categories below—Food Resources, Food Access and Availability, and Food Use—in order to create a strong program. Food Resources (such as income, CalFresh, SNAP etc.) • Double Up Food Bucks Program – connects SNAP with farmers markets. www.doubleupfoodbucks.org • Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center – a nonprofit that helps individuals achieve financial self-sufficiency through entrepreneurship. www.rencenter.org • Slow Money – an investor network devoted to creating a sustainable food system. www.slowmoney.org Food Access and Availability (such as in-kind food, urban agriculture, community gardens, corner store conversion etc.) • Boxcar Grocers – small grocers working directly with local farmers. www.boxcargrocer.com • California Association of Food Banks: Farm to Family – connects food growers and packers with food banks; developed innovative concurrent picking program to create a market for cosmetically inferior produce. www.cafoodbanks.org/Farm_to_Family.html • Farm to Freezer – saves produce from spoiling by freezing it until a recipient is identified. https://farmtofreezer.wordpress.com • Feeding America’s Fresh Rescue Program – partners with grocers and retailers to distribute food to food banks. www.feedingamericasd.org • Food Shift – creates jobs while diverting food “waste” to the hungry. www.foodshift.net • Food Star Partners – alerts consumers to closeout sales and discounts on fresh produce at local retailers. www.foodstarpartners.com • People’s Community Market – a market in a low-income community that has partnered with a larger chain to leverage purchasing power and processing facility. www.peoplescommunitymarket.com • Stockbox Grocers – small format grocery stores. www.stockboxgrocers.com Food Use (such as workable kitchens, culturally appropriate food use etc.) • DC Central Kitchen and LA Kitchen – community kitchens engaged in food recycling and meal distribution programs. www.dccentralkitchen.org and www.lakitchen.org • La Cocina – an incubator kitchen for food entrepreneurs. www.lacocinasf.org • People’s Grocery – provides education and community through food. www.peoplesgrocery.org Other • Hunger Free Minnesota – statewide, multi-stakeholder effort to close the meal gap across the state. www.hungerfreemn.org
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