Deadline: 30-Jun-22
The Henry P. Kendall Foundation is accepting nominations for its 2022 New England Food Vision Prize, a $1 million commitment aimed at building resiliency, relationships, and capacity within New England’s academic institutional food supply chain, resulting in increased preparation, serving, and consumption of local and regional food at K-12 schools and higher education institutions.
The Henry P. Kendall Foundation provides catalytic support to organizations and leaders in pursuit of greater production and consumption of food sustainably grown and harvested in New England. A strong regional food system improves their health, their economy, and their environment. The Foundation believes educational institutions are important community resources and economic anchors.
Prize Details
- Prize proposals may range from $25,000 to $200,000.
- Prizes will be awarded to projects focused on building resiliency, relationships, and capacity within New England’s educational institution food supply chain. Desired impacts include increased preparation, sourcing, serving, use and/or consumption of local and regional food at K-12 public schools/districts and college/university dining programs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants may submit a request individually or as a team. In keeping with a Prize program’s primary Applicants may submit a request individually or as a team. A primary objective of this program is to foster collaboration and create new ways of working together on shared challenges and goals. Grant applicants should identify at least one educational institution (K-12 or higher education) that will benefit from the proposed project. A letter of support from each institution will be required as a part of the full application, but is not required with the letter of interest submission. If an applicant is an educational institution itself, this satisfies the criterion.
- Applicant teams might include:
- Farms / food harvesters / producers
- Food hubs
- Processors
- Network organizations
- Community-based organizations
- Municipal departments/initiatives
- Higher education institutions
- K-12 schools or school districts
- Additional institutions (healthcare, corrections)
- While for-profit businesses may participate as project partners, the primary applicant receiving grant funds from the Kendall Foundation must be a nonprofit organization, government entity, or municipality.
Criteria
- Impactful: The project will lead to increasing the use of regionally-produced food in K-12 public schools/districts or college/university dining programs in New England. It is clear what difference this project will make in the local/regional institutional supply chain and who will benefit as a result.
- Collaborative: Funding would be used to further relationships with institutional food procurement/supply chain partner(s), ultimately providing regional food to at least one identified educational institution.
- Regional: The food impacted by the project should be grown or harvested in New England.
- Measurable: The project identifies at least one metric which the applicant will use to track and report progress at providing regional food to institutions.
- Sustainable: There is a clear plan for how the project will be managed during the grant period and how the project will continue beyond the initial grant period.
- Equitable: The project includes specific action to address injustice and inequity in the food system, including engaging stakeholders in decision-making.
For more information, visit https://www.kendall.org/our-work/farm-to-institution-higher-education/2022-new-england-food-vision-prize/
