The Collaborative leads the Campaign for HIP Funding to ensure that the Healthy Incentives Program (HIP), which provides fresh, healthy, local fruits and vegetables for SNAP recipients, receives increased state funding to meet demand, operates year-round, and adds new farmers to fill gaps in program coverage.
View a map of HIP locations and legislative districts here.
Spring 2025:
Please email your state legislators to ask them to support the Senate’s proposed $25.4 million for HIP in the remaining fiscal year 2026 budget process, and to allow DTA to riase the benefits caps as soon as possible!
Additionally, ask your state representative and senator to cosponsor the HIP enabling bills, HD.2197, introduced by Reps. Mindy Domb and Andy Vargas and SD.829 , introduced by Senator Jo Comerford. Use this template.
HIP vendors and customers – please continue to fill out this form with updates on how the ongoing cut is affecting you.
The Campaign for HIP Funding Coalition
The Campaign coalition includes more than 300 farmers, farmers markets, nonprofit agricultural and food system organizations, faith institutions, healthcare institutions, individuals with lived experience with food insecurity, and more. The Campaign coalition holds regular, virtual meetings to collectively advocate to lawmakers and to keep each other updated about the program’s on the ground operation. See members of the Campaign here!
Join the Campaign for HIP Funding by signing on here!
Success of the Campaign in 2024
The fiscal year 2025 budget was signed into law by Governor Healey and included almost $16 million for HIP. Unfortunately, this level of funding was not enough to ensure year-round operation, or add any new farmers to the program. The Collaborative will continue to advocate for this important funding though supplemental funding at a later point this fiscal year.
Campaign highlights
Thank you to the hundreds of Campaign members who have lent their advocacy to the HIP campaign this year as well as in years past.
Together, we have successfully advocated for $64 million for the program since 2017:
In addition to our budgetary success, the Campaign has successfully advocated:
We especially want to thank the Campaign Steering Committee; Leran Minc and Selecca Bulgar-Medina of Project Bread, Susan Murray of SEMAP, Kelly Coleman of CISA, Laura Sylvester of the Food Bank of Western Mass, Laura Smith of Lane Gardens and Oakdale Farms, Vickey Siggers of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition, Lesley Melendez of Groundwork Lawrence, Enrique Vargas of Mill City Grows, Aiesha Washington of Action for Boston Community Development, and Liz O’Gilvie of the Springfield Food Policy Council and Gardening the Community, for their work strategizing and guiding our advocacy.
Additional Resources
The Collaborative wrote a report on the history of the Campaign for HIP Funding, which can be found here.
HIP Fact Sheet (updated as of March 2025)
Fact sheet citations (as of March 2025)
HIP/SNAP outreach resources developed by Campaign members.
Videos and stories from HIP families and farmers, produced by the Campaign.
Media coverage of HIP’s successes and history of the program.
Information about the program from the Department of Transitional Assistance.
Postcard template to use to collect stories
For more information about the campaign, please contact Becca Miller.
