Deadline: 17-Oct-22
The Guelph-Wellington Community Agriculture Challenge is a call for projects, offering a total of $20,000 in funding (up to $2,000 each to 10 projects) to implement ideas and projects that support circular economic recovery, accelerate food production, and get more food to the table with less environmental impact.
Objectives
- Contributes to the circular food economy
- Aligns with Our Food Future priorities related to scalability, sustainability, reducing, and/or repurposing waste
- Increases community production of nutritious food
- Increases food access and/or knowledge for the Guelph and Wellington County community including newcomer families, women, and youth
- Provides significant community benefit (social, economic, employment, or environmental).
Funding Information
Up to $2,000 is available for successful submissions, with up to 10 grants being awarded across Guelph and Wellington County.
Eligible Projects
Projects are eligible if they:
- Are community-based or community-led
- Are implemented in Guelph or Wellington County
- Are implemented in the 2023 growing season
- Have clear impacts and strong community engagement
- Encourage and promote community-based food growing projects such as:
- Community-run gardens
- Food growing initiatives on private or public land
- Increasing neighbourhood food access with new sharing practices
- Improving water usage, compost production, tool-sharing or information systems at community gardens
- Harvesting, gleaning and processing community grown food
- Educational programs and skills development
Eligibility Criteria
- This program is for food growing enthusiasts with big community oriented ideas. The program is centred on community resilience, and encourages and supports applications from a diverse set of applicants including Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, LGBTQ+, and equity deserving groups. You may apply even if you or your organization has received funding from Our Food Future in the past.
- You may apply even if you or your organization has received funding from Our Food Future in the past.
- Individuals, groups, not-for-profits or businesses interested in applying must submit their idea through 10C’s secure online portal.
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This funding supports applicants with a variety of operating models, including:
- Incorporated non-profit community or charitable organizations located in the City of Guelph or Wellington County.
- For-profit businesses/co-operatives and social enterprises located in the City of Guelph or Wellington County.
- Indigenous led activites and inititives taking place in the City of Guelph or
- Wellington County.
- Informal community groups from which at least one member lives in the City of Guelph or Wellington County.
- Government organizations or municipal departments.
For more information, visit Harvest Impact.
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For more information, visit https://harvestimpact.ca/communityagchallenge/
