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Vital Conditions for Health with The Rippel Foundation
This resource presents the Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being framework, shifting the focus from treating individual symptoms to investing in the core properties of places and institutions. This approach […]
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Impact Story: Learning To Bridge Before I Had The Words For It
This impact story from the Othering & Belonging Institute highlights Blandy Morales’s work in forming the “Fullerton Is Our Home” coalition through healing circles and bridging frameworks to address local […]
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Land and Heart
For young farmers, balancing a vision for food system change with day-to-day survival is a constant challenge. Land and Heart spends a day with Iowa City farmer Corbin Scholz, tracing […]
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Rising, Rooted, and Resilient
In Detroit’s North End, food sovereignty isn’t just an idea – it’s growing seven acres strong. In this documentary, journey inside the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network (DBCFSN), where […]
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Reviving Coastal Clam Gardens: Swinomish Tribal Community
The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community is reviving culturally and ecologically important clam gardens on their coastline to create habitat for native clams. Alana Quintasket, a citizen of the Swinomish Indian […]
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Rooted in Community
Based in Utah, Sara Patterson runs a year-round CSA that connects neighbors with fresh, local food. This upcoming documentary follows her work nurturing sustainable agriculture, building community relationships, and advocating […]
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2020 Equity Champion Award
From Food Lifeline, Jose Ortiz and Tri-Parish Food Bank in Skagit County were awarded the Equity Champion Award
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Lummi Food Assistance Program
Members of the nation in northwest WA now have more control over how culturally important foods — like locally caught salmon — are distributed.
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Impacts of HR1 SNAP Cuts in Washington
This resource provides updates on changes to public benefits, including eligibility, access, and documentation requirements, with data available by county.
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Supporting State Economic Stability and Strength After OBBBA/H.R. 1 SNAP Cuts
This playbook from the Food Research and Action Center details impacts to food security from HR1 as well as opportunities to shape equitable food access policies.
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Why Culturally Relevant Food Takes Commitment
In Minneapolis, Open Arms relies on guidance from local immigrant populations regarding familiar foods, cooking methods, and tracking health disparities.
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Role Of Food Banks And Community Food Programs In Providing Culturally Relevant Food
This brief intends to answer the question: “What have food banks and community food programs nationally done to best address providing culturally relevant food?”
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Food Resources in the North Sound
This resource provides compilation of lists/orgs working in food resources in the North Sound counties, in English and Spanish.
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Financial Insecurity in the Nonprofit Workforce
Independent Sector and United For ALICE’s first-ever ALICE in the Nonprofit Workforce: A Study of Financial Hardship report finds that more than 1 in 5 nonprofit employees in the United […]
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WAFOOD Brief 16 – Food Security and Food Assistance in the Wake of COVID-19: A 5th Survey (2024) of Washington State Households
Published February 13, 2025, this brief focuses on findings from WAFOOD5 (August-October 2024) and examines changes in food insecurity and food assistance in Washington State households as Washingtonians continue to […]
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Unidad Unlocks Thriving in South Texas
This resource explains how the UNIDAD coalition in the Rio Grande Valley uses the Vital Conditions for Well-Being framework to drive systemic change and enhance community health through collaboration and […]
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What the Vital Conditions Made Possible
This video from the Rippel Foundation features community leaders discussing how the Vital Conditions for Well-Being framework has provided a shared language to integrate health and social services, sparking collaborative […]
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SNAP Funding Cuts Threaten Food Security, Health
This article examines how historic cuts to SNAP funding and new work requirements are expected to increase food insecurity, worsen health outcomes, and deepen health inequities for millions of low-income […]
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This Is What Food Justice Looks Like: Access To Affordable, Healthy, Culturally Relevant Foods
This article describes Solid Ground’s food justice work, which focuses on addressing systemic inequities in the food system by expanding access to affordable, healthy, and culturally relevant foods through community […]
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A New Food Pyramid Has Been Released. Here’s What It Says You Should Eat
This article explains the USDA’s newly released 2026 inverted food pyramid, which emphasizes whole foods and red meat while reducing grains, and highlights expert concerns about its health implications and […]
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Tribal Food Sovereignty and Climate Change in the Northwest
The resource highlights collaborative, community-led initiatives focused on restoring ancestral lands and adapting to environmental shifts to ensure food security and tribal sovereignty, defined as the right of communities to […]
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The Intersection of Culture and Cuisine: How Food Shapes Our Identity
Food fosters connection and cultural understanding by revealing traditions, social structures, and gender roles through cuisine. Conversations with Arts faculty at UBC Vancouver highlight how food links us to diverse […]
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The Global Food System: An Analysis
This resource examines the global food system using systems science, showing current trends are unsustainable and outlining a plan for a resilient system within planetary boundaries. It highlights agriculture’s environmental […]
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What You Need to Know About Funding Cuts to Food Banks, SNAP, and Medicaid
This resource explains how recent and proposed federal funding cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, and food assistance programs will increase hunger, strain food banks, and reduce access to health care and […]
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Advancing Equity in Food Systems: Supporting Food Justice and Food Sovereignty, and Ending Food Apartheid
This resource offers a guide for local governments on using policy, systems, and environmental changes to address racial and economic inequities in food access. It highlights community-led governance and provides […]
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The Nation’s Largest Food Aid Program Is About To See Cuts. Here’s What You Should Know.
This article details proposed cuts and structural changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), explaining how they could reduce access to food assistance, strain state budgets, increase food insecurity, […]
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Creating The Healthiest Nation: Food Justice
This report from the American Public Health Association examines food justice as a way to address food insecurity’s root causes, emphasizing how systemic racism and policies like redlining have led […]
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Appropriations, Budget and Taxes: Federal Budget Allocations Make a Difference for Families Facing Hunger
This resource explains how Feeding America advocates during the federal budget, appropriations, and tax process to protect and strengthen nutrition programs and funding that help families, seniors, women, and children […]
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Federal Funding Cuts to Food Program Impacts Communities and Farmers
This piece explains how federal cuts to a pandemic-era local food purchasing program are reducing access to fresh, culturally relevant food for communities while undermining income stability for local and […]
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Food and Cooking: A Bridge to Cultural Understanding
This resource discusses how food serves as a universal connector, revealing cultural identities and histories through flavors, aromas, and shared meals. Exploring diverse cuisines enhances understanding of different lands and […]
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