Institutional Purchasing

FPC Quarterly Forum: NEWtrition in Our Schools presentation

NEWtrition in Our Schools forum opening presentation by Teleange Thomas, Program Officer of Health, The Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland.

Scaling-up Connections between Regional Ohio Specialty Crop Producers and Local Markets: Distribution as the Missing Link

Many local food systems advocates focus on increasing the number of farmers selling their products directly to consumers, but this type of direct marketing is only one strategy for increasing the consumption of local foods. Over 90 percent of all food for home consumption is acquired from retail venues (such as grocery stores) (USDA, ERS, 2010), suggesting an important strategy to increase the consumption of Ohio grown foods by Ohioans, is to focus on increasing the flow of these foods through the state’s distribution and retail market systems.... Read more »

Policy Brief 3 - Institutional Purchasing

No. 3 of 6 in a series of Coalition-created policy briefs.

Cleveland Ordinance No. 1660-A-09

This document describes an ordinance that was passed in early 2010 that causes the City of Cleveland to offer a bid incentive to local producers, local-food purchasers, and sustainable businesses who apply for a City contract.  You can read more about the implications of the ordinance in this GreenCityBlueLake article and more about the history of the ordinance in ... Read more »