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How to Accept SNAP Payments: A Guide for Montana CSA Farms

This excellent resource from Montana's National Center for Appropriate Technology walks CSA farms through setting up SNAP/EBT. Though made for Montanans, much of its advice is applicable nationwide. Valuable for…
Getting Started | SNAP, EBT, and Nutrition Incentive Programs | Farm Stands, CSAs, and Mobile Markets | CSA
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Measuring Racial Equity in the Food System: Established and Suggested Metrics

This tool offers an expansive list of metrics that U.S. food system practitioners and food movement organizations can use to hold ourselves accountable for progress towards a more equitable food…
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility | Evaluation and Reporting | Data collection and evaluation | Operations and policy | What to measure and track
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EBT Technology: Market Discovery Process

Your process in choosing a Third Party Processor (TPP, or sometimes referred to as a “Merchant Service Provider”) and device (whether it’s a tablet or a payment terminal) to process…
SNAP/EBT and Nutrition Incentives Technology | POS & E-commerce Options | Getting started— applying, equipment, etc
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How to Get a Senior Center to Tour Your Market

Senior Centers often organize farmers’ market tours to help seniors utilize their FMNP checks. If you can facilitate this, it’s a great way to ensure that seniors use their checks…
Planning and budgeting | Messaging, Marketing, and Engagement
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How to do Outreach at Senior Centers

Senior Centers distribute FMNP checks to their members every summer and many seniors are EBT recipients as well. Doing a cooking demonstration or simply giving a short presentation is a…
Planning and budgeting | Messaging, Marketing, and Engagement
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How to do Outreach at WIC Centers

Visiting a WIC Center and doing a cooking demonstration is a wonderful way to encourage WIC recipients to use their FMNP and WIC Vegetable & Fruit checks at farmers markets,…
Planning and budgeting | Messaging, Marketing, and Engagement
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How to Use Schools to Promote Your Market

“Backpacking” refers to when a school sends each child home with a certain handout to give to their parents. Although many schools won’t allow outside organizations to backpack their flyers,…
Planning and budgeting | Messaging, Marketing, and Engagement
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The Reckoning with Race Curriculum

An important step in Year of Reckoning cities’ journey is taking the time to build racial equity competencies through deep learning, discussion and practice. This is why Living Cities has…
Trainings and tools | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
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