Holyoke Food & Fitness

Nuestras Raíces was a founding member of the Holyoke Food Policy Council and has been a core leader in the expansion to become the Holyoke Food & Fitness Policy Council (HFFPC) with additional support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. HFFPC is one of nine community collaboratives across the country that was selected by the Kellogg Foundation to be a part of their Food & Fitness Initiative because of our demonstrated commitment to collaboration and a capacity to transform the food and fitness environments in our community. HFFPC is a collaborative effort led by Nuestras Raíces and the Holyoke Health Center includes nearly 60 partner agencies, community residents, and youth leaders from the Holyoke Youth Commission.

The mission of the Holyoke Food & Fitness Policy Council is to create and sustain a more healthy and vibrant Holyoke through the development of programs, policies, community leadership and advocacy.

Holyoke Food & Fitness has a vision for a comprehensive, unified community-based systems-change initiative that creates access for families and children to healthy foods and fitness opportunities and confronts underlying conditions of poverty, blight, and social injustice.
We are building a local collaborative that will plan, implement, and sustain improvements to the places we live, learn, work, and play. Together, we are focusing on improving the policies, practices, and systems that determine how food arrives on our table and how our communities are maintained and built.

Check out our Strategy Map which is our plan of work for the next five years.

Formore information you may visit their website here,
Holyoke Food and Fitness Policy Council.

Contact:

Diego Angarita
 413-535-1789
dangarita@nuestras-raices.org