Tools
Resources in the Tools category include how-to type information that can be directly applied to projects such as toolkits, manuals, tip sheets, etc. This section is great for people working on or starting a healthy corner store initiative.
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 page.
February 3, 2012 in Featured Articles, Reports, Tools
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Green for Greens: Finding Public Financing for Healthy Food Retail is a new publication from HCSN co-conveners Public Health Law and Policy. Bringing healthy food to “food deserts” requires tenacity, ingenuity, and a significant investment of capital. The good news is that there’s a substantial amount of public financing available for projects that make healthy food more available to low-income people. Federal, state, and local governments offer a range of funding programs that support economic development in these communities.
This guide provides a general overview of economic development and ideas for how to approach economic development agencies with healthy food retail proposals. It also provides a comprehensive overview of local, state, and federal economic development programs that have been or could be used for healthy food retail projects.
Tags: Economic Development, Food deserts, Funding, Policy, public health
December 22, 2011 in Reports, Tools
This introductory toolkit from Policy Link provides information on four popular strategies used to help low-income and communities of color increase access to healthy, fresh, and affordable food. The toolkit helps you decide among Grocery Store Development, Corner Stores, Farmers’ Markets, and Urban Agriculture and Community Gardens programs and provides many of resources on how to get started. It includes research, data and mapping, and how to choose a tool. Great resource for those just starting out.
Tags: Economic Development, Toolkits and Manuals, website
November 15, 2011 in Tools
This site provides numerous educational and publicity resources for staff involved in implementing the WIC package changes.
Tags: Produce/Food Handling Tips, Promotional Materials, WIC
November 15, 2011 in Tools
This website includes extensive information about recent changes to WIC and implications for retailers. Numerous resources for retailers include posters, shelf labels, shelf talkers, a cashier checklist, a retailer fact sheet and UPC codes for both ineligible and eligible foods. A new WIC shopping guide is available as a pdf in both English and Spanish. Information includes Minnesota-specific resources as well as more general resources that will be useful in any state.
Tags: Merchandising, Minnesota, Promotional Materials, WIC
November 14, 2011 in Tools
Healthy Foods Here. Directed toward store owners, this two-page handout includes ten merchandising tips to help small stores sell healthy food.
Tags: Merchandising
November 14, 2011 in Tools
Cleveland Corner Store Project, 2009. This 62-page booklet / cookbook features nutritional, food safety, and cooking information, as well as dozens of healthy recipes.
Tags: Cleveland, Produce/Food Handling Tips, Program materials
November 14, 2011 in Tools
Healthy in a Hurry, Louisville, KY.
These tools are from the Healthy in a Hurry Corner Store initiative, which has provided the infrastructure and expertise for two stores in low-income areas to carry fresh fruits and vegetables. This initiative is coordinated by the YMCA of Greater Louisville in collaboration with the Louisville Department of Public Health and Wellness and the Center for Health Equity.
Tags: Assessments, Contracts, Louisville
November 14, 2011 in Tools
Youth Leadership Institute, Fresno, CA.
Youth helped to develop and utilize these store assessments while leading a successful corner store makeover in Fresno.
Tags: Assessments, Fresno, Starting a HCS Program, Surveys
November 14, 2011 in Tools
Boston Strategic Alliance for Health. This 3-page survey allows healthy corner store organizers to gauge storeowners’ interest in becoming a healthy corner store as well as the program criteria in order to participate in the Boston initiative.
Tags: Boston, Program Criteria, Surveys
November 14, 2011 in Tools
Community Health Councils, Inc., Los Angeles. Checklist of quality/type of products in store that community members can fill out and give to storeowners on pages 8-9.
Tags: Assessments, Inventory
