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TRISCUIT Names The Missing Ingredients Project's Final 2021 Grant Recipients
Changemakers receive $50,000 grants to improve access to fresh, affordable, nutritious food in food desert communities across the U.S. EAST HANOVER, N.J.,
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[{"type":"text","content":"Changemakers receive $50,000 grants to improve access to fresh, affordable, nutritious food in food desert communities across the U.S.\n\n\nEAST HANOVER, N.J., Nov. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, TRISCUIT, a brand known for its iconic woven wheat crackers, announced Jamila Norman of Patchwork City Farms and James Kanoff and Aidan Reilly of The Farmlink Project, have joined The Missing Ingredients Project as the brand's final 2021 changemakers. Launched in November 2020 with a $1 million commitment over three years, the brand's purpose-driven effort aims to weave more nourishment into the world by helping to improve access to fresh, affordable fruits and vegetables in food deserts across America.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nChangemakers Jamila Norman, Founder of Patchwork City Farms in Atlanta, and James Kanoff and Aidan Reilly, Co-Founders of The Farmlink Project, each received a $50,000 grant to support their unique and innovative community-based programs that are having a meaningful impact on food insecurity in food deserts. Changemakers are selected based upon their passion for lessening food insecurity and developing inventive, impactful ways to improve food access in their own communities and the difference they are making to reduce the problem.\n\"This year, submissions for the TRISCUIT brand's The Missing Ingredients Project illustrated true ingenuity, with changemakers addressing both the challenges families face in accessing affordable, fresh foods, as well as the difficulties organizations may face supplying fresh produce,\" said Becky Duke, Associate Director at Mondelēz Global LLC. \"Choosing these organizations took serious consideration, and we are extremely humbled to support the innovative solutions brought forth by both Patchwork City Farms and The Farmlink Project. We look forward to helping to find and support solutions to improve food access in these communities.\"\nAccording to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), approximately 19 million people — 6.2 percent of the United States population — live in food deserts. These are geographic areas, either urban or rural, where access to affordable, healthy food options, including fresh fruits and vegetables, is limited or non-existent.1 The pandemic only worsened the issue of food access across the US, and the Missing Ingredients Project by TRISCUIT is...