Snap/Ebt At Your Farmers Market: Seven Steps To Success Book

Creating a successful Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly food stamps) redemption program at your farmers market is more than acquiring the terminals, tokens and signage. It's about creating a strong infrastructure for the program; developing a sustainable funding strategy; understanding and meeting the needs of a diverse customer base; and creating community partnerships to extend the reach of the program through marketing, promotions and incentives. This handbook addresses the steps needed to set up SNAP and provides a comprehensive description of the elements necessary to make it successful. This handbook includes case studies of farmers markets from across the US-rural and urban, big and small, new and established-that successfully operate SNAP projects, and provides additional resources, such as recordkeeping templates, a sample customer survey, and links to organizational resources and other SNAP/EBT guides, to help you launch a successful SNAP project at your farmers market.