Awards issued prior to january 20, 2025, were funded under previous administrations and may not reflect the priorities and policies of the current administration.** project new village, a black-led,…

Awards issued prior to january 20, 2025, were funded under previous administrations and may not reflect the priorities and policies of the current administration.** project new village, a black-led, community-rooted nonprofit, will lead an intergenerational project that addresses food- and nutrition-insecurity in communities where redlining and structural racist policies and practices have resulted in inequitable access to healthy foods. The project will increase the availability and consumption of healthy, hyper-local food by: 1) collaborating with a local high school culinary arts program to develop young people's capacity to prepare value-added and pre-packaged products; 2) enhancing future nutrition workers' ability to meet the needs of food- and nutrition-insecure residents as they develop educational materials and provide brief nutritional health literacy sessions; 3) overcoming households' and older residents' food shopping constraints by bringing healthy food to neighborhood locations via a mobile farmers' market andproduce subscription packs; and, 4) developing marketing campaigns and materials that support community food sovereignty by encouraging residents to spend their money within their own community to reduce economic leakage. Using data from student and customer surveys, the project will demonstrate impact on food availabilty andfood- and nutrition-insecurityin low-income neighborhoods of color. The project will result in a healthier and more self-reliant community, demonstrating how healthy, hyper-local food can be prepared, distributed, and enjoyed within a community to reduce food and nutrition insecurity in the immediate- and long-term.