What is the Community Action Plan?
Community-based organizations (CBOs) have implemented FIM interventions for decades. Faith-based groups, food banks, medically tailored meal providers, and community-engaged health care champions have played key roles in distributing food and advancing research that demonstrates FIM’s impact on health and food security. Successful initiatives often rely on local leaders, staff, and volunteers who understand the communities they serve. To sustain their work, many CBOs have learned to operate amid inconsistent funding and to braid multiple sources into stable budgets.
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American Heart Association Health Care by Food
Coordinating scientific research, public policy advocacy and stakeholder education to advance food is medicine interventions that incorporate healthy food into health care to treat, manage and prevent diet-related diseases.
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Food is Medicine Coalition
A national coalition of nonprofit organizations that provide medically tailored meals (MTMs) and groceries (MTGs), medical nutrition therapy and nutrition counseling and education to people in communities across the country living with severe and chronic illnesses.
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American College of Lifestyle Medicine
As the premier medical society in lifestyle medicine, we educate and certify healthcare professionals, advocate for the broader practice of lifestyle medicine, build community for clinicians, and provide evidence and research to advance the field.
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Nutrition Incentive Hub
In fiscal year 2019, $41 million was awarded, with $8.5 million for the creation of the GusNIP Training, Technical Assistance, Evaluation, and Information Center (NTAE). The GusNIP NTAE Center created the Nutrition Incentive Hub, a coalition of partners to support nutrition incentive and produce prescription projects.
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Tufts Food is Medicine Institute
A university-wide collaborative effort based at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, bringing together experts from across disciplines with other local and national collaborators to advance food is medicine research, training, patient care, and community and policy engagement.
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Feeding America
Feeding America is a nationwide network of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries and programs, that provide food and services to people facing hunger. For every dollar you give, the Feeding America network of food banks helps provide at least 10 meals.
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Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI)
Pursuing more equitable, just, and sustainable health and food systems by supporting clients, community partners, and movements with legal expertise and policy advocacy. As a clinical program, we educate students to become skilled, innovative, and thoughtful health and food system practitioners.
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