Deadline: 7-Dec-21
America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) has launched the applications for the Targeted Small Grants (TSG) Program to improve access to healthy food in underserved areas.
The TSG program will provide grants to eligible organizations in eligible Underserved Areas to implement a project that is designed to improve access to fresh, Healthy Food through food retail. The program will support projects aiming to strengthen, expand, and innovate within the food retail supply chain. The program could assist a variety of organizations, business models, and capital needs of ventures that process, distribute, aggregate, market, and sell healthy, fresh, and affordable foods to underserved communities and markets.
Funding Information
At least $4,000,000 is available for grants for the 2021 HFFI Targeted Small Grants (TSG) program. Grant awards may be from $20,000 – $200,000. They expect to make 20-30 grant awards.
Eligible Locations
Applicants must propose a project in an eligible underserved area in order to be eligible for the program. Projects in underserved urban and Rural Areas are eligible. Underserved Areas, defined earlier in this RFA, means a community that has
- limited access to affordable, Healthy Foods, including fresh fruits and vegetables, in grocery retail stores or farmer-to-consumer direct markets; and
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a high rate of hunger or food insecurity or a high poverty rate. For the purposes of the TSG program, a project must be located:
- In a Census tract determined to be a Low-Income and Low-Supermarket-Access Census Tract by the United States Department of Agriculture in its Food Access Research Atlas;
- OR in a Census tract adjacent to a Census tract determined to be a Low-Income and Low Supermarket-Access Census Tracts by the United States Department of Agriculture in its Food Access
- Research Atlas; and which has a median family income less than or equal to 120 percent of the applicable Area Median Family Income;
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OR in a Geographic Unit which—
- Individually meets at least one of the criteria, and
- Meets the criteria as having low access to supermarket or grocery store through a methodology that has been adopted for use by another government or philanthropic healthy food initiative.
Eligibility Criteria
- For-profit business enterprises (including a corporation, limited liability company, sole proprietor, public benefit corporation)
- Cooperatively-owned businesses
- Tax-exempt nonprofit corporations
- Institutions of higher education
- State and local governments and governmental agencies, authorities, commissions and food policy councils
- Tribal governments and tribal governmental agencies, authorities, and food policy councils
- Individuals are not eligible.
For more information, visit America's Healthy Food Financing Initiative.
For more information, visit https://www.investinginfood.com/apply/