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This webinar will provide strategies on how community health organizations can help expand the availability and quality of affordable healthy food, including locally-grown food, as part of a comprehensive approach to supporting equitable and healthy communities. Subject matter experts will share the results on a national study of small store food distribution strategies. Community presenters will share stories from three healthy corner store programs, each using different innovative distribution models including food hubs, gleaning (or collecting excess fresh foods), working with community gardens and urban agriculture, hub-and-spoke delivery systems, and leveraging The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs.

To advance research and practice in the context of race and ethnicity in food systems work, JAFSCDsought commentaries this summer from activists of color, leaders, consultants, white advocates and projectpartners, nonprofit organization staff and board members, public agency staff, and academics (scholars,students, and program staff). In this issue we offer 24 thoughtful and challenging commentaries spanning awide range of communities Native peoples, migrant workers, African Americans, and exploited ethnicgroups, to name a few. The authors speak of the misperceptions, stereotypes, and misunderstandings thathappen when well-meaning folks arrive in their communities with ready-made tools, strategies, andprograms—many under the guise of empowerment.

To decide to bicycle, people need biking to be safe and convenient. They need access to a bicycle, and they won’t bike unless it seems like something normal and worthwhile. ChangeLab Solutions developed this infographic to outline a few of the many strategies that can help get people bicycling around town.

Mapping America’s Futures allows users to test possible scenarios for how the US population might change by 2020 and 2030. The results will change depending on whether you choose low, average, or high rates for future births, deaths, or migration.

A white paper on strategies to reduce unhealthy food and beverage marketing to young children.