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The Root Cause Coalition’s T HIRD N ATIONAL S UMMIT ON THE S OCIAL D ETERMINANTS OF H EALTH New Orleans, LA October 8, 2018 The Food is Medicine Institute Replication and Scaling Panel: The Food is Medicine Accelerator David B. Waters, CEO, Community Servings

About Community Servings Community Servings is a Boston- based not-for-profit organization with a 29 year history of providing medically tailored meals and nutrition services to seriously ill individuals and their families coping with critical and chronic illnesses. We are also leading members of the Food is Medicine Coalition (FIMC) .

The Need for an Accelerator: To Achieve Health Equity by Providing More MTM Services to Vulnerable Individuals, Regardless of Where They Live High quality MTM intervention The need to Better adopt and outcomes, enforce lower costs standards of (established quality by research) Demand to Policy change replicate and – payers scale MTM reimburse for programs MTM

The Current Marketplace of MTM Providers FIMC MTM providers serve major metropolitan areas in the U.S., leaving major gaps in service to vulnerable populations.

Goal of the Accelerator : To ensure that severely ill, socially vulnerable individuals have access to high quality, medically tailored home-delivered meals (MTM), regardless of where they reside in the U.S.

The Accelerator Team Founding partners are Community Servings, God’s Love We Deliver, the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School, and the Nonprofit Finance Fund. FIMC is also a key strategic partner, and FIMC leadership have actively participated in the Accelerator’s planning phase. Funders include AARP Foundation and the Eugene M. Lang Foundation.

Project Timeline The project planning phase was launched in the Fall of 2017, and funded in December 2017. We have since conducted governance, organizational, curriculum development and business planning activities, and we are now submitting a proposal to fund a 3-year grant to implement the Accelerator. Planning phase funding secured; conducted governance, organizational, Pre-planning; planning phase launched. Project launch and business planning activities; submitting proposal for implementation Sept.-Dec. 2017 Dec. 2017-Dec. 2018 2019-2023

Accelerator Activities The first phase of implementation will focus on Leadership, Capacity, and Advocacy. • Support field-building activities to strengthen the ongoing leadership work of FIMC related to sharing best practices, collaborating on research, and advancing shared public policy initiatives. • Grow the capacity of existing and future MTM providers to serve more critically and chronically ill individuals statewide and regionally, through sub-grants, innovation workshops, and technical assistance. • Advocate for policy change to sustainably scale the MTM model with coverage through state and federal legislation and/or healthcare reimbursement contracts.

Leveraging Partnerships and Expertise We will leverage our collective experience and expertise in nonprofit food service, business planning, finance, scaling, and Food is Medicine policy development to bring the MTM model to scale as a financially viable, sustainable business model.

Questions/Discussion: David B. Waters, CEO, Community Servings dwaters@servings.org