Holyoke Food & Fitness Policy Council is one of nine collaboratives being funded by the Kellogg Foundation’s Food and Community program which focuses on creating healthy places where all children thrive.

The goal of the HFFPC is to promote community empowerment for social change through influencing program and policy outcomes around health and wellness, food systems and the built environment.   The mission of the HFFPC is to create and sustain a more healthy and vibrant Holyoke through the development of programs, policies, community leaders and advocacy.

Our initiative seeks to accomplish our food system, active living and school wellness goals by continuing to place an emphasis on building the capacity of our growing cadre of youth and community residents, so we are enabled to better solve the community issues and empowered to take action to improve community conditions.

We will cultivate leaders by building capacity around understanding policy, conducting research, and presenting data and our broad collaborative goals to policymakers.