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Or for more details, download the complete Plan To End Childhood Hunger in the Nation's Capital (PDF, 6.56MB).

The Ten-Part Plan

  1. Providing all District children a healthy breakfast
  2. Encouraging healthy food choices
  3. Helping families meet needs at home with food stamps
  4. Improving working families' economic security
  5. Increasing families' access to fresh produce
  6. Helping after-school programs provide healthy meals and snacks
  7. Expanding reach of summer meals programs
  8. Ensuring access to balanced, nutritious diets for all pregnant women and preschool children
  9. Ensuring access to nutritious food in shelters and food pantries
  10. Providing comprehensive public education about available assistance

Ten-Year Goal

All District of Columbia residents will have access to fresh, affordable produce in their neighborhoods.

The Plan to End Childhood Hunger

Increase families’ access to fresh produce

It’s hard to provide kids with good nutrition when healthy food is hard to come by, and fresh produce is too expensive. But in neighborhoods where many of the District’s poor and working class families live, the only food available is from corner grocers that can’t afford to offer the fresh produce that full-service supermarkets bring to other areas.

D.C. Hunger Solutions will work with the business community and District government to encourage more supermarket growth where it’s needed – particularly east of the Anacostia River. We’ll focus as well on creative solutions to this challenge – finding ways to make it easier for farmers from the region to get their produce to consumers, and for neighborhood store owners to provide produce at reasonable prices.

store mapTwo-Year Action Plan

  • Create outreach efforts to dispel myths about business challenges in lowincome neighborhoods.
  • Work with District government to create incentives for new stores in underserved communities.
  • Work with District government to reduce regulatory barriers for new farmers’ markets.
  • Explore creative solutions like community-supported agriculture, and cooperative purchasing for small grocers.

Action Steps

  • Increase the number of grocery stores in South East section of city (Wards 7 & 8).
  • Streamline D.C. Government process for permitting Farmer's Markets.

Measures of Success

  • Increase in the number of grocery stores in target area
  • Number of Farmer's markets and number of new Farmer's markets in NE & SE.
  • Length of time to open new Farmer's market.