Takeda Center for Community Health & Nutrition

The Takeda Center for Community Health and Nutrition will create greater access to nutritious and medically tailored food for communities throughout Eastern Massachusetts. Click here to learn more about The Takeda Center.

The Takeda Center’s work builds upon The Greater Boston Food Bank’s dedication to food as health by advancing four pillars of work:

• Growing access to nutritious, culturally responsive, and medically tailored food
• Strengthening community-based and healthcare partnerships to address food insecurity
• Elevating and conducting research to pursue data-driven hunger-relief strategies
• Supporting investments in people and infrastructure to enhance local community impact and improved health outcomes

The work includes managing dozens of Community Health Mobile Markets that deliver and expand access to fresh, nutritious produce directly to communities and children, veterans, and seniors who are at increased risk of food insecurity. The Center also oversees GBFB’s SNAP application assistance team that helps up to 1,000 families access food assistance every year. Additionally, staff includes a Mass General Brigham doctor that serves as the health and research advisor overseeing GBFB’s annual statewide food access study and two full-time registered dietitians that administer the nutrition policy and provide education to GBFB’s agency partners.

Building on Two Decades of Partnership

The Takeda Center was made possible by a four-year, $4 million grant from Takeda, the largest-ever donation in the food bank’s history. Takeda has had a long-standing commitment to GBFB since 2005, with lifetime giving of almost $6.5 million. Additionally, Takeda employees have contributed nearly 30 volunteer shifts at GBFB’s warehouse, totaling nearly 1,000 hours of service since 2014.

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