The Minnesota Hunger Initiative along with the Minnesota Food Funders Network and The Greater Twin Cities United Way are sponsoring an event
Event Description:
How can the philanthropic sector build on current efforts to develop a CULTURE OF HEALTH, ensuring that all Minnesotans have access to healthy food? How may funders advance health equity and impact public health in a time of changing demographics for our state?
Event Information:
Wednesday Jan. 20, 2016 at 8:00 AM
Neighborhood House, St. Paul, Minnesota
Who should attend? Minnesota funders from diverse sectors invested in health and healthy food access, including, community/corporate/family and private foundations, faith-based and government funders. Leaders within the health care, hunger relief, public health sectors.
Objectives:
Funders who attend will explore:
- The impact of healthy food access on health equity
- An evidence-based, national philanthropic model that fosters a “Culture of Health”
- Promising practices in Minnesota
- How to engage with current healthy food access initiatives
Event Speakers:
– Dr. Dwayne Proctor (Director and Senior Advisor to the President), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will provide remarks on the important role funders play in creating a culture of health.
-Dr. Edward Ehlinger (Commissioner), Minnesota Department of Health, will provide key remarks on successes and opportunities to create a culture of health in Minnesota.
– Melanie Ferris (Research Scientist), Wilder Research Center, will provide remarks on how demographic changes in Minnesota have impacted health disparities.
– Guest speakers will showcase promising practices in Minnesota, offering case studies of public and private partnerships that advance health equity through healthy food access.
– Anne Barry (Assistant Comissioner), Minnesota Department of Human Services, will provide a dynamic CALL TO ACTION.
Online registration closes on January 15, 2016. Click here to register.
Questions? Contact Amy Lopez, Greater Twin Cities United Way at, 612.340.7680.