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grant opportunities commuNity Food proJect GraNtS Why This Resource Is Useful:
The Community Food Project’s program provides one-time grants to nonprofit organizations to undertake comprehensive, multi-pronged responses to local food, farm, and nutrition issues.
Eligibility:
Nonprofit organizations. Only nonprofit groups can receive these grants.
Description:
These grants are designed to increase food security in communities by coordinating the efforts of the whole food system, to assess the strengths, establish linkages, and create systems which will improve the self-reliance of community members. Activities supported include growing, processing, and marketing food, as well as improving the nutrition safety net, aiding food recovery and gleaning, and supporting nutrition education. Grant awards are funded from $10,000 to $250,000 with an annual total of $2.5 million, and require a dollar for-dollar match in non-federal funds (in-kind is allowable). Grants are from 1 to 3 years in duration.
Deadlines:
Grants applications are accepted during one application period per year, usually in late spring. Check with contacts below for update.
Contact:
Elizabeth Tuckermanty, Community Food Projects Coordinator,
rural commuNity FacilitieS GraNtS aNd loaNS Why This Resource Is Useful:
This program provides federal small grants and larger loans to help rural government agencies and nonprofit groups pay for a wide variety of infrastructure upgrades, including infrastructure related to community food security, food banking, and food recovery.
Eligibility:
Nonprofit organizations, government agencies, tribes. Public entities (such as municipalities, counties, and special-purpose districts), nonprofit groups, and Native American tribes in rural areas and towns with a population of 50,000 or less are eligible for these grants for facilities.
Description:
A small amount of grant funds and a significantly larger amount of loan funds are available to construct, enlarge, extend, or otherwise improve community facilities providing essential services in rural areas and towns. Funds may be used for health care, public safety, and public services facilities. Funds may also be used for necessary equipment for the operation of these facilities, and to pay other necessary costs connected with them.
Recent Recipient:
The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts has received funding to modernize its warehousing capacity.
Deadlines:
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service,
Funds are awarded throughout the year, but often run out quickly. The best time to apply is usually in the beginning of the federal fiscal year, which starts every October 1.
Stop 2241, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-2241
Contacts:
Phone: (202) 205-0241; Website: www.reeusda.gov./crgam/cfp/community.htm
Applications are handled in each state by the rural community facilities staff, housed in the state office of the USDA Rural Housing Service. Phone: (202) 720-1500 or (202) 720-1490 Website: http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/recd_map.html
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