Food is Medicine Advocacy Toolkit

Using Advocacy to Expand Opportunities for Food and Nutrition Services in Public and Private Healthcare Systems.

God’s Love We Deliver is New York City’s leading nonprofit provider of life-sustaining meals and nutritional counseling for people living with severe and chronic illnesses, such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, renal failure and over 200 others.

All services are provided free of charge, and in their over 30-year history, God’s Love has never had a waiting list. Last year, God’s Love provided over 1.4 million meals to 5,600 individuals.

On the national level, God’s Love leads The Food Is Medicine Coalition, a volunteer association of nonprofit food and nutrition services (FNS) providers across the country seeking to preserve and expand coverage of FNS for people with severe illness.

This toolkit is designed to support the efforts of FNS providers by providing practical guidance on how to identify and take advantage of opportunities for acquiring new funding streams from health insurance systems and their associated delivery models and programs.