1. Emergency Foodshelf Network & The Minnesota Project Innovative Approaches to Healthier Food Shelves Presented By:

3. Presentation Overview  Increasing Healthy Foods in your Food Shelf  Fruits of the City Program  Garden Gleaning Project  Garden to Table Program  Increasing Demand for Healthy Foods  Healthy Foods Policies & External Communication  Community Collaborations  Merchandising Strategies  Evaluation & Collective Impact

4.  Gleaning  Education  Community Orchards

5. Yearly Impact

6. To facilitate the harvesting and distribution of fresh produce from gardens in the community to local food shelves. Our Mission

7. Garden Gleaning Project

8. Garden Gleaning  Relationship Building – Neighborhood Crd.  Support Each Food Shelf with Donors  Community Gardens  Home Gardens  Farmers Markets & CSA’s  Congregations  Corporate Gardens  Support Donors  Resources to plant & donate more  Neighborhood Coordinators  Pick up and Deliveries

9. Increasing Engagement

10. “Zucchini is a gateway drug. Once you get growers hooked on how good donating feels, they will find other produce to share as well.” Iowa Food Gardening Social Marketing Initiative Assessment Executive Summary

11. Let’s Make Donating Feel Good! “I would be happy to donate money to my food shelf, but I need confidence in them that they are effectively using my garden donations first.” - Donating Gardener

12. Garden Gleaning Progress  2011(volunteer based)  2 Partner Food Shelves  7,334 pounds  2012  5 Partner Food Shelves  Over 22,000 pounds  2013  7 Partner Food Shelves  Toolkit – Best Practices Results & Process Intentionally Diverse

13. Toolkit  For Food Shelves  Building Relationships  Neighborhood Coordinator Model  Outreach & Communication Strategies  Handling & Storage  For Produce Growers  Why Donate?  How to Donate?  What to Donate?  Liability & Safety

14. Little Kitchen Food Shelf

15. CAPI Food Shelf

16. Get Involved  Refer gardeners and fruit tree owners to MN Project  Recruit Local Volunteers  Fruits of the City  Engage folks in growing food for you!  Consider a food shelf garden  Plant fruit trees  Get to know your nearby gardeners  Review the Toolkit  Contribute to the next edition

18. ERC’s Garden to Table

19. Direct Nutrition Education

20. EFN’s Nutrition Support Karena Johnson, MS, RD, LD| 763.450.4207 Nutrition Outreach Specialist | kjohnson@emergencyfoodshelf.org

21. Policy, Systems, and Environment Creating Change Upstream Makes the Biggest Impact

22. Policy Change Changing Laws, Policies, and Rules – Formal and Informal

23. Policy Change at a Food Shelf Healthy Foods Policy What & Why

24. Policy Change at a Food Shelf Create a Healthy Food Policy

25. Policy Change at a Food Shelf Development Process for a Healthy Food Policy

26. Policy Change at a Food Shelf Before After Healthy Food Drive Communication

27. Systems Change Changing the Underlying Structures of a System – Values, Relationships, Policies, and Power Structures

28. Systems Change: Local Foods Social Innovation Lab & Northside Fresh

29. Environment Change Changing the Economic, Social, or Physical Environment

30. Environment Change at a Food Shelf

31. Before After Merchandising Strategies: Facing

32. Before After Environment Change at a Food Shelf Merchandising Strategies: Display

33. Environment Change at a Food Shelf Merchandising Strategies: Healthy Foods Signage

34. Environment Change at a Food Shelf Merchandising Strategies: Cross Merchandising

35. Evaluation How do we know if what we’re doing is working

36. Evaluation: Nutrient Profiling & HEI What do these scores mean? Score of 81-100 represents “ good ” Score of 51-80 represents “ needing improvement ” Score of less than 51 is “ poor ” Component Maximum Points Score Total fruits (includes 100% juice)55 Whole fruit (not juice)55 Total vegetables55 Dark-green and orange vegetables and legumes55 Total grains55 Whole grains51 Milk101 Meat and beans10 Oils10 Saturated fat10 Sodium105 Calories from solid fat, alcohol, and added sugar (SoFAAS)20 TOTAL10082

37. Evaluation: Data Collection

38. Collective Impact

40. Questions???

41. Thank You Dave Glenndglenn@mnproject.org Emily Eddy Whiteeeddy@emergencyfoodshelf.org Jared Walhowejwalhowe@mnproject.org Sophia Lenarz-Coyslenarzcoy@emergencyfoodshelf.org