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See What’s Possible When We Start with Food
At Fair Food Network, we believe that when we start with food, so much is possible: collaborative solutions, vibrant communities, and new paths forward. Together, we can grow a more equitable, resilient food economy.
How we’re supporting families, farmers, and local economies
First piloted in Michigan in 2009, our Double Up Food Bucks program now serves as a national model for nutrition incentives. Double Up matches SNAP (or food stamp) purchases of fruits and vegetables, helping families with low income bring home more healthy food while boosting business for farmers and food retailers.
How we’re investing in food businesses creating positive change
We support food and farm businesses with catalytic capital, wrap-around business services, and a commitment to place-based impact investing collectives. We focus our investments on people who are most often overlooked by traditional investors, particularly people who have been marginalized due to their race, ethnicity, and/or gender. Together, we are building a more vibrant, inclusive food economy.
How we’re partnering with the Nutrition Incentive Hub
Leveraging our experience and lessons learned from building and scaling programs like Double Up Food Bucks, we lead technical assistance and innovation for the Nutrition Incentive Hub, a USDA-supported center launched in partnership with Center for Nutrition and Health Impact. The Hub strengthens nutrition incentive and produce prescription projects across the country.
Change Is Happening Right Now
From advancing our nutrition incentives work to investing in food and farm businesses, our approach is designed to create an immediate impact and long-term systems change.
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Total dollars we invested into communities in 2023.
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Combined SNAP and Double Up sales since 2009.
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Pounds of healthy food purchased with SNAP and Double Up Food Bucks in Michigan since 2009.
Free Virtual Roundtable
December 3 from 12:00 -1:00 p.m.
Our new roundtable series invites changemakers from across the food system to share their stories about how food is helping to shape a more resilient future for them and their communities.
Join us December 3 to hear from Malik Yakini, Co-founder and former Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network, who will share about his work, including D-Town Farm and the opening of Detroit People’s Food Co-op, a Black-led and Black-owned grocery store.
Malik Yakini
Co-founder and former Executive Director, Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network
Stories From the Field
Continuing to meet the need
Food insecurity predates the coronavirus and inflation, and presents a growing problem in the U.S. With the help of nutrition incentive programs like Double Up Food Bucks, families using SNAP can bring home the fresh fruits and vegetables they need and want. In turn, local farmers and food retailers have more economic opportunities, and more dollars keep circulating in our communities.
See the win-win-win benefits of nutrition incentive programs in our latest impact report.
Despite the good intentions and creative strategies of impact investors, extreme wealth inequity persists. The climate crisis will only deepen the divide, unless we change quickly. Many impact investors are investing and giving more to meet the challenges of our world. But entrenched relational norms that prioritize capital and transactions over community and relationships are much slower to change.
Reshaping investment norms to fight wealth inequity
Despite the good intentions and creative strategies of impact investors, extreme wealth inequity persists. The climate crisis will only deepen the divide, unless we change quickly. Many impact investors are investing and giving more to meet the challenges of our world. But entrenched relational norms that prioritize capital and transactions over community and relationships are much slower to change.
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Your support can help us create positive change through food. Together, we can make healthy food more accessible, propel local food entrepreneurs forward, and advocate for policies that bring restorative solutions to scale.
