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Field Reports

Building Health and Wealth: Assessing Potential Benefits and Raising Awareness of the WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program in Louisville Metro, Kentucky

Natalie Valpiani, Emerson Fellow
Published 2006

Louisville, Kentucky

Building Health and Wealth: Assessing Potential Benefits and Raising Awareness of the WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program in Louisville Metro, Kentucky is a two-part toolkit for advocates interested in WIC FMNP.  The first section assesses Louisville health data, food access issues, and changes in the Kentucky farm economy to determine need for the FMNP as well as potential benefits it could provide low-income families.  The second section provides an advocacy toolkit containing pilot project templates, sample press releases and newsletter articles, and resources for further information.

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Publication tags: Field Reports - Advocacy and Education, Advocacy and Education Tools/Toolkits, Farmers' Markets, Farm Stands, and EBT, Food Access, Food Systems and Agriculture, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants & Children (WIC) - Advocates (including legal advocates), Children, Food Retailers, SNAP/Food Stamp Recipients

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Natalie Valpiani

Emerson Fellow

Natalie graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a double major in international studies and French. She was recognized by the Atlantic Coast Conference for her academic and athletic excellence, performing all four years as a varsity gymnast. Natalie worked for various campus organizations on fundraising and marketing activities designed to promote campus participation in community service. At the 2003 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, she presented Quit Playing, You’ll Spoil your Dinner! The Impact of Youth Sports on Childhood Eating Behaviors, a paper which was published in Nurture. She interned at Minnesota FoodShare, volunteered in Tanzania on HIV prevention and rural resource management, and served as a trip leader for a mission to Miacatlan, Mexico, a freshman mentor, and a math tutor for disabled children.

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