Healthy Eating and Active Living

During this webinar funders learned about strategies to improve access to healthy food in rural communities, ranging from partnerships with community development finance institutions to local policy change efforts.

This webinar focused on the many different roles the land development and real estate sector can play, the ways health funders can effectively engage with them, and how the evidence-based strategies and recommendations found in the recently released Building Healthy Places Toolkit can be implemented in your own community.

Listen to this webinar to learn about promising practices that school districts, national youth-serving organizations, and youth leaders are using to create health-promoting programs outside the school day.

Listen to this webinar to learn about exemplary programs that are teaching young adults and children to use and eat fresh foods, and to discuss how grantmakers can incorporate cooking education into their healthy eating strategies.

This webinar offered funders new to and experienced in investing in local food policy a chance to explore opportunities and challenges and learn how funders might begin working in this area.