Register today for the 2016 SC Food Access Summit!
Join us for the second annual SC Food Access Summit highlighting efforts that improve access to healthy food for South Carolinians with limited financial resources.
The 2016 SC Food Access Summit will feature Anthony Flaccavento, President & Founder of SCALE, Inc. as the keynote speaker. The morning plenary speaker will be Mark Winne, former Executive Director of The Hartford Food System.
The summit provides social policy tools, training and action-oriented ideas to educate and organize participants to support local and state efforts to make the food system equitable for all. Session topics include advocacy and policy, community economic development, transportation and food access, and funding healthy food projects. View the draft summit agenda here.
Michelle Mapp is CEO of the South Carolina Community Loan Fund, a nonprofit agency that finances projects to provide housing, access to food and other services.
Today, South Carolina Community Loan Fund (SCCLF) has unveiled its new logo and brand identity. The change comes two years after the organization expanded its program areas... Read More...»
We are excited to announce that the South Carolina Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) received $250,000 from the S.C. General Assembly during the 2016 legislative session! Read More...»
The workshop will provide an introduction to SCCLF's policies and application package. Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions about the lending process and discuss their individual projects.More Information
This all-day summit provides advocacy tools, training and action-oriented ideas to educate and organize participants to support local and state efforts to make the food system equitable for all. More Information
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Journalist and author of Between the World and Me, will be speaking in Charleston on "A Deeper Black: Race in America" as part of the Race and Social Justice Initiative. More Information
The summit allows public health, health care, and other professionals and community leaders to gather and discuss positive changes that lead to increased access to fruits and vegetables and physical activity. More Information
Since 2004, we have provided 297 loans for $36.7 million in financing
that facilitated more than $234 million in community development projects; we
financed 1,336 housing units, 9 healthy food outlets, 10 community facilities, and 14
community businesses, creating or retaining 2,754 jobs and providing a safe,
affordable place to call home for 3,340 individuals and families.
