Reports
Resources in the Reports category include information that analyzes, summarizes, and evaluates healthy corner store programs. This includes academic research, industry reports, and other information.
If you are looking for topic specific information (“evaluation” for example), there are two ways to narrow your search. Try clicking on one of the many tags on the right side of the section. You can also type in key words in the search box on the top right of the website.
November 14, 2011 in Reports
Healthy Corner Store Initiative and Snackin’ Fresh. Includes information about the Corner Store Campaign’s social marketing efforts in Philadelphia’s inner-city corner stores and schools, along with lesson plans, other resources, and links to related programs. Snackin’ Fresh is a social marketing initiative directed at youth. The project site includes interactive maps for each participating school and corner store showing what types of healthy snacks are offered.
Tags: Urban, website
November 14, 2011 in Reports
Bodega Chronicles is a blog that examines the culture, commerce, spirit, struggle, and sustenance of urban spaces through the lens of the grocery store. Written by one of the Healthy Corner Store Network’s co-conveners, Urbane Development.
Tags: website
November 11, 2011 in Reports
Aimed for those who want to start or run a convenience store business, this website is chock full of resources for aspiring corner store owners. The NACS website offers tips on choosing a location, making a business plan, store design and construction, employee training, and more.
Tags: Industry Trends, website
October 31, 2011 in Reports
Healthy Stores Program, June 2004.
This Manual details the responsibilities of the project interventionist(s) and describes the intervention plan, promoted foods, and communication materials for each phase of this one-year program. (Online version gives only sample pages.)
Tags: Toolkits and Manuals
October 27, 2011 in Reports
Advocates can tap into a range of programs through federal, state, and local agencies to help fund a range of healthy food retail projects, from improving the products sold at corner stores to attracting new grocery stores, farmers markets, and mobile food carts. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to identify and leverage financing mechanisms to create healthier food retail options in your community, and hear from people who have experience designing, implementing and funding successful projects. Cosponsored by the Community Food Security Coalition and the Healthy Corner Stores Network.
Webinar Summary Healthier Food For Sale: Finding the Funding
Webinar Slides
Link to Webinar Recording
Tags: Funding, Webinars
June 1, 2011 in Reports
The Healthy Corner Stores Issue Brief is a new quarterly publication created by The Food Trust for the Healthy Corner Stores Network. Each thematic issue will include an introduction to the topic, project profiles, best practices, and resources.
Receive Issue Briefs by Email
Each Issue Brief will be posted to the HCSN Discussion List, but it is possible that the email may be caught by spam filters. If you’d like to ensure that you receive every Issue Brief directly, you can subscribe to the Issue Brief email list. If you want to receive other announcements from the HCSN, you can subscribe to our HCSN Discussion List (in Google Groups).
Tags: HCSN Original, Issue Brief, Youth
April 1, 2011 in Reports
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Food Trust, April 2011. This report recommends in-store marketing strategies to promote healthier foods for grocery and corner stores. The report includes case studies and recommendations about marketing tactics, such as in-store promotions, placement and pricing that can encourage healthy eating, increase customer satisfaction, and help food retailers increase profitability. The link also includes a video about innovative marketing strategies being used to encourage healthier eating at corner stores and a new grocery store in Philadelphia. The video describes The Food Trust’s Healthy Corner Store Initiative (HCSI) in Philadelphia. It also features Snackin’ Fresh, a youth program of the HCSI that teaches middle school kids about nutrition and helps them to make healthier choices at corner stores. The video also features a grocery store that opened in a Philadelphia neighborhood previously classified as a food desert.
Tags: Merchandising, Philadelphia, public health, video, Youth
March 25, 2011 in Reports
March 25, 2011, Altarum Institute. This report describes findings of a study that examined the impact of the changes to the WIC food package on small, authorized WIC stores. The study included small WIC stores in Colorado, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and found that small stores are adding healthy foods to their inventories in response to the food package changes. While findings from store manager interviews revealed some challenges in finding the new WIC foods in allowable form and in maintaining food freshness, their overall response to the new food package was very positive.
Tags: Inventory, public health, WIC
March 1, 2011 in Reports
The Healthy Corner Stores Issue Brief is a new quarterly publication created by The Food Trust for the Healthy Corner Stores Network. Each thematic issue will include an introduction to the topic, project profiles, best practices, and resources.
Receive Issue Briefs by Email
Each Issue Brief will be posted to the HCSN Discussion List, but it is possible that the email may be caught by spam filters. If you’d like to ensure that you receive every Issue Brief directly, you can subscribe to the Issue Brief email list. If you want to receive other announcements from the HCSN, you can subscribe to our HCSN Discussion List (in Google Groups).
Tags: Economic Development, HCSN Original, Issue Brief
February 1, 2011 in Reports
Learn valuable lessons learned on outreach and publicity strategies from four different Healthy Corner Store Programs:
- SEED Wayne & Detroit FRESH
- The Center for Health Equity & Healthy In A Hurry Initiative
- YMCA of Greater Louisville & Healthy In A Hurry Initiative
- D.C. Hunger Solutions – The D.C. Healthy Corner Store
Summary of Main Points
Slideshow
Webinar Recording (wmv)
Tags: Promotional Materials, Webinars
