Nutrition Environment Food Pantry Toolkit

The Nutrition Environment Food Pantry Toolkit is a PSE change intervention designed to create pantry spaces where the healthy choice is the easy choice and that promote dignity and inclusivity. The toolkit includes site implementation materials that support pantries and technical assistance providers in carrying out small and large-scale interventions specific to food distribution styles, pantry layout, promotion techniques of healthful foods, variety of fruits and vegetables available, accessibility of information about community resources, and meeting the needs of diverse pantry audiences. Pantry-level interventions are meant to be low or no-cost. The toolkit includes two validated environmental assessment tools to quantify the nutrition environment of food pantries, the original Nutrition Environment Food Pantry Assessment Tool (NEFPAT), and an enhanced version called NEFPAT Plus. It also includes NEFPAT-user training and implementation materials.