Improve food security by increasing access to healthy food through change work at food pantries, community gardens, food councils and within tribal communities.

Who is a Community Champion? Learn about Community Change

Explore five focus areas to find tools that support stronger policies, better systems and healthier food environments.

Food Pantries

Community Gardens

Farmers Markets

Food Councils

Tribal Community Health

Community change starts with people who care.

Meet food access community champions and consider how their stories might inspire action in your own community.

Working to End Student Food Insecurity

Improving Food Access through Community Gardening

Champion Food Access is part of MSU Extension’s Community Change Hub, a self-guided, virtual resource designed to help community champions improve local health and wellbeing. Use the Hub's Six-Step Community Change Model to turn ideas into action and create lasting change in your community.

Learn about the Hub