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Newark Leaders Praise Community Health Center Expansion
U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) joined Newark City Council members and other city leaders to participate in a groundbreaking ceremony for the 20,000-square-foot expansion of the Newark Community Health Center (NCHC)…
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LIIF & Morgan Stanley Paper Connects TOD, Jobs & Healthy Communities
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Better Together
The health and community development sectors are natural partners to address the health and wealth disparities facing our nation. The two sectors already work in many overlapping and complementary ways, but moving beyond coordination to integration will require new ways of working from both sides. LIIF President & CEO Nancy O. Andrews and Director of…
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LIIF Joins FHLBank San Francisco
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N.Y. Healthy Food & FRESH Program assists in the development of new supermarkets
In certain neighborhoods of New York there is a lack of supermarkets and nutritious food. Over the past three years, the New York Healthy Food & Healthy Communities Fund (HFHC) has provided $6.14 million in loans and grants to seven supermarket projects aimed at improving access to nutritious food for people in underserved communities in New York State.…
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Massachusetts Avenue Project unveils new food truck
The Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP), which distributes healthy food to low income areas in Buffalo, New York, held a launch event for its new food truck. The New York Healthy Food & Healthy Communities Fund provided financing that enabled MAP to purchase of the truck.…
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