Nashville awarded 7.5 million in public health stimulus funds.
Surrounded by fresh fruits and veggies at the downtown Nashville Farmers’ Market, Mayor Karl Dean announced Nashville Public Health Department has received a $7.5 million federal grant to be used over the next two years to reduce barriers to healthy eating and active living.
Tennessean Editorial: Key to improving Children's health is Education, Access to Good Food
by Manna-FSP Director Cassi Johnson
Recently, first lady Michelle Obama announced a nationwide "Let's Move" campaign, the first presidential task force to combat childhood obesity. The focus is encouraging more physical activity for kids, healthier meals in schools and better access to affordable healthy food.
Nashville Public Television embarks on three year project: NPT Reports: Children's Health Crisis
The first episode of a seven-part series premiering Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. on NPT-Channel 8, provides an overview of these statistics and the reality behind them, opening up the book on the challenges that children face in leading health lives in Tennessee. The documentary will feature information about food deserts in Nashville, MANNA-FSP's Re/Storing Nashville Campaign, and an interview with our Director Cassi Johnson.
Read more about the series here.
U.S. launches program to end "Food Deserts"
PHILADELPHIA, Feb 19 (Reuters Life) - The U.S. government launched a program on Friday to encourage food retailers to operate supermarkets in low-income areas in an effort to fight childhood obesity by increasing access to healthy food.
The Obama Administration said it would provide $400 million for its Healthy Food Financing Initiative, which is modeled on a successful Pennsylvania program that in the last five years has led to more than 80 supermarkets being set up in "food deserts" -- areas that were previously underserved by sellers of healthy food.
Re/Storing Nashville Hosts MLK Interfaith Youth Service Day
In celebration of the many interfaith partnerships built by the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his work uniting communities around justice the Re/Storing Nashville program of Manna-FSP hosted a gathering for youth in the fields of Nashville Urban Harvest Farm in west Nashville, Sunday, January 17th, 2010 at 12pm. Learn more here.
Urban Food Deserts Detrimental to Children's Health
by Marian, Wright Edelmen of the Children's Defense Fund
If any of us were forced to live in a desert we'd probably find trying to survive in a barren, desolate wasteland difficult. But through a series of public policies and private sector decisions, millions of mostly low-income and minority families in America have been condemned to subsist in vast urban "food deserts" that pose serious health threats to their children. Read the full story here.
Faiths unite to feed need in community
Campaign aims to increase access to healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods
THE TENNESSEAN, Sunday, July 26, 2009
When Pastor Bobby Sanders delivers a sermon at Corona Baptist Church in Mt. Juliet, he serves a feisty helping of the Holy Spirit. Hands reach for the heavens, voices shout and congregation members pump their hand-held fans to stay cool.
Food Deserts
WPLN, Tuesday, June 09th, 2009
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