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Local Food Policy Links
| Name | Primary Focus | Social Media | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partnership for a Healthier NYC | Improving access to healthy food options Encouraging the adoption of organizational policies |    | http://healthiernyc.org/ |
| Food Bank for NYC | City’s major hunger-relief organization working to end hunger throughout the five boroughs for more than 30 years. |  | http://www.foodchange.org/ |
| New York State Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Alliance | NYSHEPA is a new statewide alliance dedicated to improving policy and practices that promote healthy eating and physical activity. | | http://www.nyshepa.org/ |
| Strategic Alliance for Healthy Food and Activity Environments | Promoting healthy food and activity environments | | http://eatbettermovemore.org/ |
| Rutgers Food Policy Institute (NJ) | FPI offers an indispensable service by providing a central resource that amasses top-level experts and talent as needed. Whether research is required in the areas of economics, food science, consumer behavior, or any of the myriad disciplines that provide insight into the dynamics of the food system, our core strength rests in comprehensively meeting any food policy research objective. | http://foodpolicy.rutgers.edu/ | |
| Just Food | Just Food empowers and supports community leaders in their efforts to increase access to locally grown food, especially in underserved New York City neighborhoods. | ||
| Slow Food NYC | Slow Food NYC works to create a food system based on the principles of high quality and taste, environmental sustainability, and social justice—in essence, a food system that is good, clean and fair. | | http://www.slowfoodnyc.org/ |
| NYC Food | NYC Food is a website created to help New Yorkers find information about New York City programs, resources, and policies relating to food insecurity, food access, healthy eating, and economic development in the food sector. NYC Food is overseen and managed by the office of the Director of Food Policy. | | http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycfood |
| NYC Food Forum | https://sites.google.com/site/newyorkcityfoodforum/ | ||
| The Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy | The Laurie M. Tisch Center cultivates research about connections between a just, sustainable food system & healthy eating & translates it into recommendations and resources for educators, policy makers, & community advocates | http://www.tc.columbia.edu/tisch/ | |
| Wagner Food Policy Alliance | The Wagner Food Policy Alliance is group of students from New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service dedicated to raising awareness about issues surrounding local, national, and international food policy. | https://wagnerfpa.wordpress.com/ | |
| Community Food Advocate | New York City - based nonprofit focused on promoting the health and well being of low-income New Yorkers by promoting policies that strengthen and support the full utilization of federal food programs. | http://www.communityfoodadvocatesnyc.org | |
| New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets | Our mission is to foster a competitive food and agriculture industry that benefits producers and consumers alike. Agriculture makes up one-quarter of the State's land area and contributes immensely to the quality of life in New York State by generating economic activity and producing wholesome products to nourish our families. | | http://www.agriculture.ny.gov/ |
| The Brooklyn Coalition | The BFC has been a vital force in the food justice movement since its founding five years ago. Now we are entering an exciting new stage, with a revamped organization that will provide even stronger support for community groups working to resolve food issues on the ground. | | http://brooklynfoodcoalition.org/ |
