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TRISCUIT Names The Missing Ingredients Project's First Grant Recipients Improving Access to Fresh, Affordable, Nutritious Food in Food Desert Communities across the U.S
Changemakers in Kansas City and South Florida receive $50,000 grants to support their efforts; TRISCUIT now accepting applications to award future
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[{"type":"text","content":"Changemakers in Kansas City and South Florida receive $50,000 grants to support their efforts; TRISCUIT now accepting applications to award future changemakers\n\n\nEAST HANOVER, N.J., June 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, TRISCUIT, a brand known for its iconic woven wheat crackers, announces the first two changemakers, Max Kaniger and Asha Walker, to join The Missing Ingredients Project. 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.\nChangemakers Max Kaniger, CEO & Founder of Kanbe's Markets in Kansas City, and Asha Walker, CEO & Founder of Health in the Hood in South Florida, 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 developing inventive, impactful ways to improve food access in their own communities and the difference they are making to reduce the problem. TRISCUIT invites other changemakers across the country, like Max and Asha, who are implementing new ideas and programs, to apply for a $50,000 grant starting on May 10th. Learn more and apply here: https://www.triscuitmissingingredientsapplication.com/.\n\"TRISCUIT has been providing whole-grain nourishment as part of a balanced diet to families for generations and we believe that everyone deserves access to affordable, fresh food,\" said Becky Duke, Associate Director at Mondelēz International. \"Through The Missing Ingredients Project, we are extremely proud to support changemakers in food deserts across the U.S. who are working every day to help ensure people can access fresh fruits and vegetables for themselves and their families.\"\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 U.S., and The Missing Ingredients Project by TRISCUIT is fuelling ...