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At Fair Food Network, we believe that food can be a powerful starting point—for collaboration, strong communities, and innovative solutions. Together, we can build a more inclusive and resilient food economy.
How we’re supporting families, farmers, and local economies
First piloted in Michigan in 2009, our Double Up Food Bucks program has grown into a national model for nutrition incentives. Double Up matches SNAP purchases of fruits and vegetables, helping families stretch their food budgets while supporting farmers and local food businesses.
How we’re investing in food businesses creating positive change
We support food and farm businesses with catalytic capital and wrap-around business services. Our investments focus on entrepreneurs who are nourishing their neighbors and contributing to vibrant, livable communities, with a special emphasis on those facing barriers to access. Together, we are building a stronger, more 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 invested into communities by Fair Food Network.
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Total produce bought through Double Up & SNAP benefits since 2009.
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Estimated pounds of produce bought with Double Up & SNAP benefits since 2009.
DIG INTO THE LATEST NEWS & EVENTS
Double Up Food Bucks Awareness Month
July is Double Up Food Bucks Awareness Month, a monthlong celebration highlighting the power of nutrition incentives in local communities. Learn more about how our Double Up Food Bucks program supports families, farmers, and local food economies across our home state of Michigan.
Rooted in Community: Nourishment, Culture, and Connection Through Food
Virtual Roundtable on July 29 from 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Food nourishes more than our bodies—it sustains our identities, our traditions, and our communities. Fair Food Network’s Erica Raml, Senior Director of Nutrition Incentives, will lead a lively discussion with David Peeples of The Food Group in Minneapolis and Kirsten Hansen of New Mexico Farmers Market Association to explore how community food programs uplift local growers, reflect cultural foodways, and center community voices.
Stories From the Field
Fair Food Network launched a special fund on behalf of the Nutrition Incentive Hub to help deepen the impact of nutrition incentive programs at the height of the pandemic, it was a creative way to “meet the moment” during an unprecedented crisis. What the fund emphasized is that, for families struggling to put healthy food on the table, and for farmers, food retailers, and fledgling nutrition incentive programs coalescing to form a more resilient local food system, the moment is always now.
Explore the latest impact the Capacity Building and Innovation Fund has had across the country.
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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