For almost 10 years The Food Trust’s Healthy Corner Store Initiative (HCSI) and Heart Smarts Program has been working to transform corner stores, often disparaged as a nutritional wastelands, into community health hubs by combining training, equipment and marketing materials for owners with regular nutrition education and incentives for shoppers. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
Director of the Health Department’s Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention division Dr. Cheryl Bettigole, and Donna Leuchten Nuccio, Senior Director at the Reinvestment Fund, discuss the recently announced Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative. | From: EcoWURD Foodlab (Read more.)
Ambitiously titled “Ending Hunger. For Good,” the initiative will involve Philabundance’s collaborating with partners who provide social services to low-income people in the region, then monitoring the results over time. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
Five teams will vie for a $5,000 prize to help solve Philly’s hunger issues. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
“Wherever we fall on the political spectrum, we all must agree that punishing the poor is not the way to make America great again,” writes Pathways to Housing PA head Christine Simiriglia. | From: Generocity
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The Full City Challenge, by Billy Penn and the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, aims to help community groups use food to strengthen communities by pairing them with money and expert assistance. | From: NBC10 (Read more.)
• SEPTA’s new regional rail turnstile design keeps Key card users in and the city’s homeless population out | From: Philly Weekly
• To prevent chronic homelessness, Philly nonprofit offers some young adults more than shelter | From: WHYY
• Voices: Abundantly Good Cheese | From: PhillyCAM
• A hotter topic: Building heat resilience into multifamily housing | From: PlanPhilly
• How Benefits Data Trust will use $4 million to increase food security across the U.S. | From: Generocity
• Broke in Philly update: Cash bail processing fees
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