Assessments

City of Cleveland and FPC Release Food Business Cluster Roadmap

Submitted by Anonymous on August 25, 2014 - 12:16pm

The City of Cleveland and FPC have released the findings from the Sustainable Foods Business Cluster Roadmap - a five-year plan with a core objective to increase regional jobs, revenue and sustainability by supporting local food and beverage businesses.  The roadmap takes a closer look at the food business cluster as a 'geographic concentration  of interconnected businesses, suppliers, service providers, and associated institutions' all related in some way to the food industry.... Read more »

FPC Working with Bush Consulting on the Sustainable Food Business Cluster Project

Submitted by Anonymous on September 13, 2013 - 12:40pm

FPC in partnership with the City of Cleveland’s Office of Sustainability will be working with Bush Consulting of Salem, Ohio to complete an analysis and roadmap of the food business cluster in Northeast Ohio with a focus on Cleveland and Cuyahoga County.  Brookings Institution defines clusters as "geographic concentrations of interconnected businesses, suppliers, service providers, and associated institutions in a particular sector." After a competitive review process by a selection committee... Read more »

Building Coalitions to Support Local and Regional Food Systems

application/pdf iconBuilding Coalitions to Support Local and Regional Food Systems

Building Coalitions to Support Local and Regional Food Systems by Morgan Taggart presented at the Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Association Annual Conference in Granville, OH on Febuary 14, 2015.

Working Group(s): 
Community Food Assessment

PRCHN Seminar Series - Social Network Analysis: Building Community Health and Relational Well-Being

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September 10, 2014 - 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location: 
Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods
BioEnterprise Building: Ground Floor Conference Room 11000 Cedar Avenue
Cleveland, OH
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In the age of Facebook and Twitter, there is no question that social connections matter, but how? Dr. Kimberly Bess will explore the ways in which social network analysis, as a paradigm and a method, can be used to better understand the relational aspects of individual and community health and well-being. Dr.... Read more »

Sustainable Foods Business Cluster Roadmap - Final Report

application/pdf iconSustainable Foods Business Cluster Roadmap - Final Report

The City of Cleveland Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, Ohio State University Extension, and the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Food Policy Coalition have developed a sustainable food cluster roadmap for Cuyahoga County, with a core objective to increase regional jobs, revenue, and sustainability by supporting local food and beverage businesses. ... Read more »

Working Group(s): 
Local Purchasing

Food Retail Inventory Tool

application/pdf iconFood Retail Inventory Tool

The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods at Case Western Reserve University has developed an assesment tool for food retailers that identifies the availability of healthy options within the store including fresh fruits and vegetables, whole wheat bread, dried beans, and high fiber or low sugar cereals.  The tool also notes if alcohol and tobacco products are sold, if prepared foods are available, and the ratio of food to nonfood aisles in the store.

Working Group(s): 
Community Food Assessment
Working Group(s): 
Health & Nutrition

PRC Seminar Series: Assessing and Mapping the Food Environment

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October 24, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: 
Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods
11000 Cedar Avenue BioEnterprise Building - Basement Conference Room
Cleveland, OH
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Working Group(s): 
Community Food Assessment

Defining and Analyzing a Food Desert by CSU Student Monique Russell

application/pdf iconDefining and Analyzing a Food Desert by CSU Student Monique Russell

Cleveland State University student, Monique Russell, and Dr. Brian Mikelbank of CSU's Levin College of Urban Affairs recently completed a revised anaylsis of food access in Cuyahoga County that includes food pantries, urban gardens, and farmers markets and a measure of access using network analysis instead of straight line distance.

Working Group(s): 
Community Food Assessment

Food Policy Research Working Group Meeting

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August 15, 2012 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Location: 
To Be Determined
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Join us for our next Food Policy Research Working Group meeting where we will be discussing plans to develop an online inventory of recent food-access research projects in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County as well as survey and assessment tools for collecting data related to food access and availability.  To RSVP please contact Working Group Chair Sue Flocke at susan [dot] flocke [at] case [dot] edu

Working Group(s): 
Community Food Assessment

UNC Chapel Hill features CCCFPC within their research center!

Submitted by Anonymous on July 12, 2012 - 2:36pm

In the early part of this year, staff from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill's Center for Training and Research Translation visited the CCCFPC to gain insight into our organization and our implementation strategies. Members and staff of the CCCFPC were interviewed and organizational documents and materials were evaluated and assessed to better understand how we do what we do here everyday in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County.... Read more »

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