Useful links

  Hartford Resources                Connecticut Resources                   National Resources      

 Hartford Resources:

 City of Hartford, official city government site
http://www.hartford.gov/

 Community Renewal Team, an anti-poverty non-profit serving the Connecticut River Valley
http://www.crtct.org/

 Foodshare, the regional food bank for Hartford and Tolland counties
http://www.foodshare.org/

 Hartford Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.hartford.gov/Human_services/default.htm

 Hartford Food System, a non-profit working to create systemic solutions to the problems of food access and hunger
http://www.hartfordfood.org/

 Hartford Hospital
http://www.harthosp.org/

 Hartford Public Schools
http://www.hartfordschools.org/

 Hartford WIC Program
http://www.hartford.gov/health/WIC/wic.htm

Hispanic Health Council, a non-profit that provides wellness and nutrition education and services for Hartford's Puerto Rican, Latino and other underserved communities
http://www.hispanichealth.com/

 Knox Parks Foundation, a non-profit that offers horticultural job skills training, leads city beautification and landscaping projects, and oversees the city's community gardening sites
http://www.knoxparks.org/

 St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center
http://www.stfranciscare.org/

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 Connecticut Resources:

 211 - Infoline, statewide phone referral line for community, services, human services and crisis intervention
http://www.infoline.org/

 Connecticut Association for Human Services, a non-profit education, research and policy development organization working to decrease poverty and inequality in the state of Connecticut
http://www.cahs.org/

 Connecticut Department of Agriculture
http://www.ct.gov/doag/site/default.asp

 Connecticut Farmland Trust, a statewide land trust that works to protect and preserve Connecticut's farmland
http://www.ctfarmland.org/

 Connecticut Food Policy Council, Connecticut's statewide food policy council
http://www.foodpc.state.ct.us/

 End Hunger Connecticut!, a statewide coalition of anti-hunger groups
http://www.endhungerct.org/

 UCONN College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
http://www.canr.uconn.edu/

 UCONN Cooperative Extension System
http://www.canr.uconn.edu/ces/index.html

 UCONN Department of Nutritional Sciences

 UCONN Department of Urban and Community Studies
http://www.urban.uconn.edu/

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   National Resources:

 American Community Gardening Association, a national organization that provides support, networking and resources to community gardening groups
http://www.communitygarden.org/

 American Farmland Trust, a national non-profit organization working to slow and halt the loss of farmland
http://www.farmland.org/

 Center for Food and Justice, a project of the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute of Occidental College
http://departments.oxy.edu/uepi/cfj/

 Center on Hunger and Poverty, part of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management of Brandeis University

 Chef's Collaborative, a national coalition working to promote and support sustainable food service businesses
http://www.chefscollaborative.org/

 Community Food Security Coalition, a nation-wide coalition of organizations working to promote systems-oriented solutions to the nation's agricultural and food-related problems.
http://www.foodsecurity.org/

 Food First Institute for Food and Development Policy, a non-profit member-supported think tank
http://www.foodfirst.org/

 Food Research and Action Center, a national anti-hunger public policy organization
http://www.frac.org/

 Local Harvest, a searchable nation-wide local farm and food directory
http://www.localharvest.org/

 State and Local Food Policy Councils, a project providing funding and guidance for those starting food policy councils through a partnership between Drake University Agricultural

Law Center and the USDA Risk Management Agency
http://www.statefoodpolicy.org/

 TargetHunger.com, a site that houses a wealth of anti-hunger resources, maintained by the Sacramento Hunger Commission
http://www.targethunger.com

   United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
http://www.usda.gov/

 USDA Food and Nutrition Service, the sector of the USDA that administers national nutrition assistance programs (Food Stamp Program, WIC, National School Lunch Program, etc.)
http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/

 World Hunger Year, a national non-profit working to create community-based solutions to hunger and poverty
http://www.worldhungeryear.org/

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