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Financial Impact of Nutrition Policies

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Show Me the Money: A Guide to Selling Healthy Food at Schools
A toolkit for helping schools overcome challenges they experience when implementing healthy food guidelines in their nutrition services, school stores, fundraising events, and vending machines. Includes a one page overview and a flyer.

Dollars and Sense: The Financial Impact of Selling Healthier School Foods(PDF)
Financial impact, challenges, and factors contributing to financial success when implementing nutrition standards for foods and beverages sold on the school campus outside of the school meal program. Includes recommendations. (2007)

Schools and School Districts That Have Improved School Foods and Beverages and Not Lost Revenue (PDF)
Case descriptions of 14 schools/districts around the country. From the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

California SB-19 Fiscal Impact Report
Fiscal analysis of 16 middle and high schools in California; improving the nutritional value of foods sold did not result in revenue losses overall. (2005)

Raw Deal: School Beverage Contracts Less Lucrative Than They Seem -- A National Study of School Beverage Contracts (PDF)
Report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law. (2006)

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