Tuesday, March 31, 2026 at 10 AM E / 9 AM C / 8 AM M / 7AM P
Need: Food Access. Solution: Grocery Store?
Anne Misak, Reinvestment Fund
You know your community, and you know what it needs - access to fresh, high quality food. So how to meet this need? The first answer that comes to most of us is “build a grocery store in our neighborhood.” Yet, there are multiple ways to get the food your community deserves into it, and pros and cons to each. Anne Misak, Program Director of the Healthy Food Financing Initiative, leads an organization that has supported and helped fund community-led food access initiatives across the US since 2017, In this session, FCI’s JQ Hannah will talk with Anne about the multiple ways communities can meet this need - a grocery store only being one of them - and examples of each. Both will discuss when a grocery store can be the right, immediate solution and when other initiatives first might be the way to build the strongest cooperative food future for your community.