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Field Reports

Putting a Price on Nutrition: The Viability of a Universal Menu Program for the San Antonio Food Bank

Micah Schwartz, Emerson Fellow
Published 2005

San Antonio, Texas

Putting a Price on Nutrition: The Viability of a Universal Menu Program for the San Antonio Food Bank analyzes the costs and benefits for a food bank for operating a community-wide menu program.  It calculates the value of collaborative purchasing and high nutritional standards for any food bank considering managing such a program, and includes a road map for full implementation of a community-wide menu.

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Publication tags: Field Reports - Emergency Food Network, Food Banks, Health, Nutrition and Hunger - Emergency Food Recipients, Service Providers

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Micah Schwartz

Emerson Fellow

Micah graduated in 2003 from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in political and social thought.  He completed an honors thesis on the welfare reformsof the Clinton administration and served as student body president.  After graduation, Micah spent a year teaching and coaching at a boarding school in the countryside near London, England.

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