Haiti emergency response increasingly home-grown
When a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, causing mass casualties across the capital region, there was not a single ...
Health
With women: Supporting community-based midwives
The United States faces a maternal and infant health crisis unlike any other industrialized nation where, as ProPublica reports, “severe complications during childbirth ...
Food Systems
Advancing racial equity through farm to early care and education in Pennsylvania
Young gardeners using hoes to get the soil ready for planting at A Mother’s Touch Center for Child Development in Sharon, PA. Photo ...
Health
Wendell Potter discusses the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s new dental therapy book
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF)’s new e-book, “For Want of a Dentist: The Rise of the Dental Therapy Movement in Tribal Nations and ...
Food Systems
Building community-based, equitable food systems in North Carolina through farm to early care and education
With a nationally recognized early childhood system through its Smart Start public-private partnership, North Carolina provides fertile ground for developing a robust farm ...
Community-driven advocacy grows farm to early care and education in Iowa
Two young girls build a snack with their moms inside the classroom in Oelwein, IA. Photo courtesy of Northeast Iowa Food & Fitness ...
Health
Dental therapists in the United States: Advancing health equity
in brief “Dental Therapists in the United States” is a new study published in the journal Medical Care that examines the drivers and ...
Community Engagement
Farm to early care and education: Lessons from the COVID-19 experience
IN BRIEF Policy Equity Group and the National Farm to School Network recently published Lessons from the COVID-19 Experience, a report to examine ...
Food Systems
Equitable food access through farm to early care and education in Wisconsin
Wisconsin is full of agricultural abundance, with more than 300 farmers’ markets and 900 school and educational community gardens. The state is known ...
Food Systems
Farm to early care and education advances community nutrition in Georgia
“I don’t like bugs myself, but I love finding bugs [in the garden] with the kids,” says Ashley Strickland, early childhood program administrator ...
