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Associated Press: Schools tackle childhood obesity
In 2-year experiment, those that pushed nutrition had fewer students become overweight

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Market feud heats up Margate early
The Food Trust weighs in on how farmers' markets can bring benefits to a community.

The Washington Post: Groceries Grow Elusive for Many in New York City
The Food Trust is working with the City of New York to address the problem of limited food access in communities.

USA Today: Cities Study Dearth of Healthy Food
The Food Trust is one of several organization's nationwide addressing inadequate access to healthy food in communities.

Times Picayune: Access to healthful foods addressed
The New Orleans City Council has endorsed 10 recommendations that would include tax breaks and public start-up assistance for businesses that sell affordable, healthful food in poor neighborhoods. The Food Trust has partnered with New Orlean's Food Policy Advisory Committee to develop the reommendations.

Philadelphia Inquirer: On the Side: In Head House, hearing market echoes
Philadellphia Inquirer columnist Rick Nichols raves about Philadelphia's newest market in its oldest location.

Philadelphia Daily News: Old as dirt and farm fresh: Market is back in town
Michael Nutter cut the ribbon of the Headhouse Farmers' Market, a very old market structure filled with a new generation of farmers. The Headhouse Farmers' Market is one of The Food Trust's 27 farmers' markets.

Philly.com: Woman of the Week, Yael Lehmann
Yael Lehmann, The Food Trust's executive director was selected as the Woman of the Week by Philly.com. Yael was recognized for her contribution to the Philadelphia community and other outstanding achievements.

City Paper: Produce Placement
The Headhouse Farmers' Market at 2nd and Lombard Sts. is opening at the nation's oldest marketplace still in operation.

New York Times: In Market, Hope for Health and Urban Renewal
The New York Times reported on The Fresh Food Financing Initiative and The Food Trust's work to bring a supermarket to Progress Plaza.

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Farmers Markets Go Wild
The Food Trust's farmers' markets not only bring fresh food into neighborhoods, but build community in the process.

Daily News: 11 hailed for work to aid environment
The Food Trust was one of 11 winners of the Philadelphia Sustainability Award. The Food Trust's work to build a sustainable, local food system was recognized as contributing to the sustainability of the region.

New York Times: $500 Million Pledged to Fight Childhood Obesity
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced $500 million grants over the next five years to fight childhood obesity. The Food Trust, one of their current childhood obesity grantees, was recognized as an example of the kinds of programs they are going to fund.

NPR: Group Maps City Access to Healthy Foods
Dan Charles interviews Food Trust founder Duane Perry about the use of maps to demonstrate the disparities of food access in Philadelphia.

USA Today: Small grocery stores hotbeds for food stamp fraud
Yael Lehmann, Food Trust executive director, makes the case for the for more food retail in underserved neighborhoods.

USA Today: New Rx: Help people to avoid getting sick
Environment plays a large role in health. The Food Trust's work in Philadelphia is part of a national movement to create healthier communities.

The Washington Post: In Cities, Healthful Living Through Fresher Shopping
The Washington Post reports on the Fresh Food Financing Initiative and The Food Trust's work to ensure that all communities have adequate access to fresh food.

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Reversing a supermarket trend
The Fresh Food Financing Initiative is helping to bring supermarkets back to underserved neighborhoods.

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Catering to local tastes
More grocery stores, especially those in ethnically diverse neighborhoods, are learning what their customers like — and stocking it.

Dr. Allison Karpyn on Radio Times
Dr. Allison Karpyn, Director of Research and Evaluation at The Food Trust, spoke with Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY about the relationship between school lunch and the childhood obesity epidemic.

Bagging a grocer for downtown Wilkes-Barre
Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania recognizes that a supermarket is a vital part of downtown development.

Progressive Grocer: Urban Retailing Just enough for the city
Supermarkets are coming back to cities through innovative development strategies.

Farmers Rock concert supports local farmers, the Clark Park farmers’ markets, and healthy food
The Food Trust is sponsoring the 1st annual farmers rock concert to support farmers' markets, local food, and community.

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Fresh, Local, and Growing
Area residents are interested in buying more fresh, local food; and The Food Trust is working to help them do that.

Philadelphia Inquirer: One Reader Responds
Ann Karlen's letter to the editor in the Philadelphia Inquirer encourages Philadelphia residents to take advantage of the delicious produce available at The Food Trust's farmers' markets.

Philadelphia Inquirer: Farmers' Markets Growing
Philadelphia has more farmers' markets than ever, and The Food Trust is responsible for many of them.

Philadelphia Metro: Program's Aim: Produce Healthier Eating Habits
The Food Trust's School Market Program, Corner Store Campaign, Supermarket Campaign, and farmers' markets all work to improve children's diets.

Philadelphia Inquirer: City retail desert could use a czar
The Food Trust's suggestion of the need for a retail czar to oversee food retail development is discussed in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Daily News Op Ed: What the City Needs is a Retail Czar
Yael Lehmann, executive director of The Food Trust, advocates creating a city position, which would ensure that retail development includes food retail for all neighborhoods.

Philadelphia Metro: City Programs in Mix for Good Government Award
The Fresh Food Financing Initiative is one of 50 groups selected as semi-finalists for the Kennedy School of Government's Innovations in American Government award.

Reading Eagle: Gloves-On Experience
Students at Thomas Ford Elementary School promote healthy eating through The Food Trust's School Market Program.

KYW Newsradio: Study Shows Need For More Supermarkets in Philadelphia
The Food Trust recently released a study, Philadelphia's New Markets: Ripe Opportunities for Retailers, which shows that Philadelphia can support many more supermarkets than it currently has.

Philadelphia Business Journal: Grocery Shortage
Millions of dollars of food retail are leaking out of the city every year because there aren't enough supermarkets to meet residents' demand.

Progressive Grocer: Michigan University, Food Trust Probe Supermarket Void in Poor Neighborhoods
Separate reports from The Food Trust and the University of Michigan indicate that poor neighborhoods have fewer options for buying healthy food, but that these same neighborhoods could support more grocery stores and supermarkets.

Daily News: Trust The Food Trust
Girlfriends' Locker Room Podcast: Trust the food trust DN columnist and fitness trainer Kimberly Garrison talks to David Adler, Communications Coordinator for The Food Trust, about educating children on nutritional issues as well as initiatives to bring more supermarkets and fresh produce into lower-income neighborhoods.

Philadelphia Inquirer: Elementary Eating
The Food Trust's Kindergarten Initiative is featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer's article about farm to school.

USA Today: Cities bring markets to the needy
The Food Trust is working to bring supermarkets to underserved neighborhoods, where they provide affordable, nutritious foods and jobs for community residents.

Kids loading up on calories on the way to school
Students are spending on average $2/day on snacks and beverages at corenr stores. They may add 600 calories a day to their diets this way.

PA supermarket initiative aims to bring healthy food to the city
The Food Trust's Supermarket Campaign is bringing supermarkets and fresh food back to Philadelphia

Fresh Food For Thought
Food retail will be an important part of redevelopment in York.

Daily News editorial: Shopping for a neighborhood
A Daily News editorial explains the need for supermarkets in Philadelphia as well as the economic viability of these projects. The Fresh Food Financing Initiative created by State Representative Dwight Evans and administered by The Food Trust, The Reinvestment Fund, and the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition is part of the solution to the problem of urban neighborhoods without supermarkets.

Philadelphia Inquirer: Junk food Geography
The Food Trust's Corner Store Campaign uses high-tech maps to help figure out what foods children in Philadelphia have access to.

Farmers' markets: A growth industry
The number of farmers' markets in the area is growing in response to increased demand for farm-fresh produce.

The Northeast Times: Freshness returns at farmers' market
The Oxford Circle farmers' market brings fresh, delicious produce into a Philadelphia neighborhood.

Junk-food geography 5/23/05 Philadelphia Inquirer
By mapping places people live, work and go, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with The Food Trust's Corner Store Campaign, are gaining insights into all sorts of problems, including childhood obesity.

Duane Perry: Better food makes kids better
Duane Perry, executive director of The Food Trust, advocates swift action to address the childhood obesity epidemic.

Associated Press: Nutritionists seek soda ban in PA schools
The Food Trust's work to set a healthy beverage policy in Philadelphia schools is now serving as a statewide model