LIFESPAN LOCAL INC

Our food team doubled the size of the southwest food coalition, bringing together 40 organizations to work together to ensure access to healthy, culturally responsive food for residents, and delivering more than 1,000,000 pounds of food. The southwest food coalition (resident-led, with administrative and funding support from lifespan local) is moving the needle in addressing food insecurity and creating systems change. The coalition motivated food access organizations to communicate, collaborate and share resources with each other.

Our public health team reached more than 4,500 community members with information about covid-19, connecting residents to resources to get vaccinations, providing at-home test kits and masks, and reaching pockets of community members who still had significant barriers to accessing information, resources, and care.

Our family leadership and education programming was delivered to 19 youth and 11 adults, cultivating leadership and civic literacy skills.

Lifespan local is building a hydroponic farm to provide the community with nutritious food and hands-on, science-based learning opportunities.