Promote healthy food access
We understand the strong connection between hunger and health.
We support the adoption of the Healthy Eating Research (HER) Nutrition Guidelines and nutrition policies at food banks and pantries to increase access to nutritious food. We encourage partnerships to advance healthy food systems and food is medicine work.
“Your book changed everything I thought I knew about pantries. I opened one last year and now I am planning to re-vamp the entire approach. My goal is to be the first healthy pantry in Philadelphia. Thank you for opening my eyes.”
- Margaux Murphy, The Sunday LOVE Project
Resources
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Feeding America Survey about HER Nutrition Guidelines Implementation Findings Brief
This report explores different strategies that food banks have used to implement the HER Nutrition Guidelines, based on a survey in May 2023.
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Healthy Food Banking Landscape Assessment
More Than Food Consulting convened a working group of charitable food researchers, food bankers and key decision makers to identify key strategies of healthy food banking, assess existing evaluation tools, and to compare with pantry-level assessment tools.
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UConn Rudd Center
Find a wealth of resources to support the ranking of foods nutritionally using the HER Nutrition Guidelines on the UConn Rudd Center website.