A healthy food policy can help your food shelf. It establishes a vision and guidelines that focus on healthy eating among your clients. Once you complete a policy, including goals, you will to find many ways to make it come alive through the activities and initiatives outlined in this guide.
What you can do today
- Request a meeting with food shelf leadership. You may need to convince them to make health and nutrition a priority.
- Make a list of stakeholders who will have a vested interest in your policy and brainstorm ideas for engaging them.
How Extension can help
Connect with a SNAP-Ed health and wellbeing coordinator to help you draft a policy that addresses food selection and donation solicitation.
Related resource
Food Policy Networks — Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future — Find numerous resources for food policy work and join the national listserv.
Reviewed in 2023