Food equity is a hot-button topic this year. What has changed? The SNAP updates span eligibility requirements, work mandates, benefit amounts, and even the specific inventory grocery stores must stock to accept SNAP, as reported by The New York Times. Arely B. Lozano Cantú, Director of Health Access and Livability, Urban Health Partnerships, is regularly […]
Is hunger a personal failure or a policy failure? Sitting between the crux of access and livability, the answer is strikingly clear: it’s a challenge; however, it’s a challenge that many faith-based organizations and non-profits are addressing in their pivotal work. Minority Health Month is allotted for taking a radical look at the social determinants […]
As Florida prepares to implement changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) through a federal demonstration project, communities across the state are beginning to ask important questions—not just about what is changing, but what those changes will mean in practice. At Florida Impact, our work is rooted in listening to communities, lifting up lived […]