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Find Food IL is a community food resource map that helps Illinois residents find food resources in their community. This download includes one flyer in English and Spanish to promote Find Food IL. Partners are welcome to print and use these to promote Find Food IL to their clients and communities.
Updated: 11/4/25

Find Food IL is a community food resource map that helps Illinois residents find food resources in their community. Partners are welcome to host a link to the map on their organization's website or social media pages in accordance with the Find Food IL Partner Hosting Style Guide.
Updated: 11/4/25

Find Food IL is a community food resource map that helps Illinois residents find food resources in their community. This download includes a half-page flyer in English and Spanish to promote Find Food IL with space to write notes on the back. Partners are welcome to print and use these to promote Find Food IL to their clients and communities.
Updated: 11/4/25

Find Food IL is a community food resource map that helps Illinois residents find food resources in their community. This download includes a half-page flyer in English and Spanish to promote Find Food IL. Partners are welcome to print and use these to promote Find Food IL to their clients and communities.
Updated: 11/4/25

Find Food IL is a community food resource map that helps Illinois residents find food resources in their community. This download includes one poster in English and Spanish to promote Find Food IL. Partners are welcome to print and use these to promote Find Food IL to their clients and communities.
Updated: 11/4/25

To be used along with the Nutrition Environment Food Pantry Assessment Tool Plus. Shelf talkers are small printed signs to help pantry neighbors shop at the pantry.

Includes background information on NEFPAT+ and the following documents: 1) Project Implementation Plan; 2) marketing flyer; and 3) reading nutrition label handout.

To be used along with the Nutrition Environment Food Pantry Assessment Tool Plus. This revised guide provides action steps and resources corresponding to each NEFPAT+ strategy.

NEFPAT+ is the enhanced version NEFPAT including PSE approaches.

The NEFPAT is a short environmental assessment tool to use in food pantries. The assessment allows users to easily identify policy, systems and environmental changes, such as distribution practices and healthy marketing strategies. The evidence-based objectives of the tool evaluate food distribution styles, promotion of healthful foods, variety of fruits and vegetables available, access to information about community resources, and meeting the needs of a diverse clientele.

Instructions for using the Nutrition Environment Food Pantry Assessment Tool or NEFPAT. Please also watch the NEFPAT training at: https://go.illinois.edu/NEFPATVideoTraining

University of Illinois SNAP-Education is a contributing partner of the Illinois Farm to Food Bank Program, an initiative whose goal is to build a long lasting, sustainable system creating a relationship of farms working directly with food banks to increase food access, economic dollars within the state, profitability for Illinois farmers, community revitalization and reduce food waste. In contribution to the initiative, University of Illinois Extension SNAP-Education conducted food pantry manager focus groups in July of 2021 to learn about the challenges and opportunities of distributing fresh foods in Illinois food pantries. This report details the findings from these focus groups.

Use this template while completing the Food Bank Health and Nutrition Assessment Tool, or FB-HANA. For more information, visit https://inep.extension.illinois.edu/what-we-do/connect-resources

Includes the following documents: 1) NEFPAT Development Summary; 2) Sample Food Pantry Action Plan; 3) Pantry NEFPAT Assessment Checklist/Guide; and 4) NEFPAT Process and Strategies
Updated: 7/22/22

To be used along with the Nutrition Environment Food Pantry Assessment Tool. This guide provides action steps and resources corresponding to each NEFPAT strategy. The recommended process for a NEFPAT intervention includes 1) assessment, 2) action planning, 3) intervention, and 4) reassessment 3-6 months after the initial assessment.