About Us
The Healthy Corner Stores Network promotes efforts to bring healthier foods into corner stores in low-income and underserved communities.
Led by the Community Food Security Coalition, The Food Trust, and Public Health Law & Policy, the Healthy Corner Store Network (HCSN) brings together community members, local government staff, nonprofits, funders, and others across the country to share best practices, lessons learned, and new approaches to common challenges.
We encourage you to participate in the activities of the Healthy Corner Stores Network. HCSN activities include supporting listserves, and events such as quarterly conference calls, and in-person meetings at national conferences.
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The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) is a North American organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food to all people at all times. It has 250 member organizations and supports their work through education, training, networking, and policy advocacy. CFSC is the lead coordinator of the HCSN, which is part of a larger project that also includes a food retail track at the fall 2008 CFSC conference and a report profiling successful food retail stores in low-income areas.
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Planning for Healthy Places at Public Health Law & Policy engages advocates and professionals from health and planning fields in built environment decision-making processes throughout California. Connecting partners across disciplines, we train advocates, government agency staff, and others on the relationship between the built environment and public health. We also provide one-on-one technical assistance to help create and implement policies that support healthier communities. Planning for Healthy Place's work includes helping communities to create general plans and zoning that support access to healthy foods and the use of economic development resources to develop grocery stores and other healthy food retail options in underserved areas, among other health -supporting local planning policies
Contact info: Hannah Burton Laurison (510) 302-3342 |
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The Food Trust was established in 1992 to increase the availability of fresh foods, develop a stable food supply in underserved communities, and improve the connection between urban and agricultural communities. The Food Trusts goals are to provide nutritious and affordable fresh foods to inner-city communities, to educate people about the importance of healthy diets and to build healthy and sustainable rural and urban communities where everyone has access to locally grown, fresh and affordable food. The Food Trust helps to expand the supply of food resources available to low-income communities through advocacy, creating model programs, and undertaking food disparity research studies and disseminating their findings to government officials and policy-makers.
Contact info: James Piett |
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The HCSN is made possible by a generous grant from the UPS Foundation and substantial in-kind contributions from project partners.