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How DC Central Kitchen Keeps Expanding While Other Nonprofits Shrink
This Chronicle of Philanthropy article profiles 2023 H2HC Prize for Innovation winner DC Central Kitchen and the organization’s approach to addressing hunger by pairing nutritious meals with wor...
How Ownership-Based ‘Food Is Medicine’ Initiatives Can Advance Structural Change
This Health Affairs Forefront article argues that Food Is Medicine initiatives should move beyond delivering food to also build long-term community wealth and local food system capacity. The authors p...
The Quiet Unraveling of America’s Food Safety Net
This Politico Magazine article explores how proposed federal changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) could shift greater financial responsibility to states, using Maine as a ca...
The Trump Administration Has Changed Almost Every Aspect of Food Stamps
An article from the New York Times examines how changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) under the Trump administration are reshaping food assistance for millions of Americans. ...
Kraft Center at Mass General Brigham Launches $100,000 Community Health Prize
The Kraft Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Community Health recognizes and celebrates transformative organizations, programs, or innovations that are making a measurable impact on health outcome...
New $10 Million Fund To Accelerate Food is Medicine Adoption in the United States
NEW YORK | January 15, 2026 — The Rockefeller Foundation and Builders Vision today launched the Food is Medicine Impact Fund — hosted by RF Catalytic Capital, Inc., the charitable off-shoot of...
Hunger to Health Collaboratory Awards $300,000 through its 2025 Prizes for Innovation
The Hunger to Health Collaboratory (H2HC) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Prizes for Innovation, which recognize innovative and systemic food and nutrition programs advancing youth heal...
Health Affairs: Rescinding Health-Related Social Needs Guidance Undermines Trump’s Own Economic Goals
In early March 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Trump administration abruptly rescinded its multiyear guidance framework on health-related social needs (HRSN), elim...
At These Grocery Stores, No One Pays
In an innovative twist on community nourishment, a growing network of “free grocery stores” is redefining access to fresh food: no cash, no ID, no income verification required. These community-pow...
Tufts University and Leading Health Care Organizations Launch Food is Medicine National Network of Excellence
The Food is Medicine Institute at the Friedman School and Kaiser Permanente spearhead collective effort to establish best practices for implementing, evaluating, and integrating food-based interventi...