Eating Right for your Cancer Fight

Midland County Cancer Society’s program, Eating Right of your Cancer Fight, will ensure cancer patients receive individualized nutrition education based on their unique cancer journey. By collaborating with MyMichigan Health, they will provide at least one session of...

Food First Caregiver Connect

Detroit Area Agency on Aging (DAAA) and Bento – a technology company with a mission to address food insecurity – will develop a pilot project that will improve access to culturally appropriate and healthy meals for caregivers and the individuals they are caring for by...

Improving Food Insecurities in the U.P.

This grant is a collaborative funding model with Superior Health Foundation to support their 2021 Food as Medicine initiative in the Upper Peninsula. Superior Health Foundation will lead the initiative in collaboration with stakeholders from the Upper Peninsula and...

Advancing Health & Equity via Michigan’s Local Food Councils

Local food councils shape healthy food policy initiatives that create lasting, systemic change. This project builds on a previous project to build capacity among local food council leaders and statewide food and health network leaders through customized, needs-based...

Best Food Forward

In 2019, the Health FUnd awarded a grant to the Michigan Department of Education to scale a small pilot program to bring families of two Michigan school districts to full food security status. This next phase of the project will continue to build the healthy food...

Native American Nutrition Prescription Program

The Native American Nutrition Prescription Program is a culturally responsive nutrition prescription program that supports changes in health behaviors and improved nutrition. This program will be tailored to ensure that the foods and intervention methods are...

Exploring a Healthy, Sustainable Food Network in MI UP

This planning project will set the framework to increase access to healthy, high-quality food in the Upper Peninsula. The project will examine infrastructure improvements; determine the feasibility of an aggregation, distribution, and light food processing facility...

Horticulture Career Pathways Program Planning

This planning grant will provide Detroit Public Schools’ students with a collaborative work-based training model rooted within a farm-to-school-based curriculum, preparing students for higher education and direct career pathways in horticulture, including urban...

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