FAYETTEVILLE, Ark — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received grants from the Walmart Foundation and the Alice L. Walton Foundation to support the Northwest Arkansas (NWA) Farmers’ Market Alliance’s Double Your Dollars program, an initiative that provides residents access to affordable, healthy foods at farmers markets.
The Walmart Foundation donated $250,000, while the Alice L. Walton Foundation gifted $100,000.
Created in 2012 to address food insecurity of low-income residents in Northwest Arkansas, the Double Your Dollars program provides recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) vouchers with one-to-one dollar matched tokens for purchasing healthy, locally grown food at participating farmers markets. In 2020, the program was expanded to accept Pandemic SNAP assistance.
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