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City Funds Flanner House Micro-Grocery in Food Desert

City Funds Flanner House Micro-Grocery in Food Desert

WFYI reports that the City of Indianapolis announced the first recipient of its Healthy Food Access grant on Thursday. Flanner House will receive $400,000 to develop Cleo’s Bodega, a micro-grocery that will sell discounted food through a relationship with Under...

Who Has Access to Groceries and Farmers’ Markets?

The USDA defines food deserts as a census tract where “at least 500 people and/or at least 33 percent of the census tract’s population reside more than one mile from a supermarket or large grocery store.” [usda.gov] This is a useful definition, but of...
A Model to Mitigate Hunger

A Model to Mitigate Hunger

By Sharon Kandris It’s clear that hunger and food insecurity are growing problems in Central Indiana.  We’ve recently partnered with two Central Indiana organizations (Northside Mission Ministry of Second Presbyterian Church and United Way of Central Indiana)...