Deadline: 18-Apr-25
The Healthy Food Healthy Planet (HFHP) is pleased to announce the Collective Action: Grants for Food System Changemakers working on collaborative projects.
This is an exciting opportunity to bring forward innovative ideas and collaborate with partners to shape healthier, just and sustainable food environments.
The Calls to Collective Action are open to partnerships of two or more organisations working together to change food environments.
Focus Areas
- They seek projects in three areas of focus, developed in collaboration with the civil society network. The focus areas are:
- Strengthening Subnational Leadership and Elevating Local Impact: Bridging Local Initiatives to National and European Food System Transformation
- Objective: They seek proposals aimed at empowering partners working on subnational food system transformation —including work in cities, regions, and rural areas- to connect with national and European-level efforts. They are particularly interested in projects that foster collaboration among local leaders and communities working on food sovereignty, sustainable agriculture, food justice, and food democracy, ensuring that diverse voices—particularly those most harmed by current food systems—are heard and included in policymaking.
- Strengthen communities against the harms of industrial livestock production to public health and justice.
- Objective: This Call to Collective Action seeks proposals from coalitions or alliances that include grassroots organisations and aim to address the public health, environmental, and social harm caused by industrial livestock production, including industrial fish farming. They are interested in approaches that focus on empowering local communities, build capacity within grassroots movements and elevate public health risks to influence (local and/or national) policy
- Accelerate corporate accountability in food systems towards mandatory mechanisms
- Objective: The overarching goal is to channel the power of food businesses (retailers and food service) and investors to accelerate the shift towards food that is healthy, sustainable, and fair, in line with the Planetary Health Diet. They are interested in projects that build energy, momentum, and people power to create enabling conditions for bold transformation, paving the way for mandatory accountability mechanisms for corporate retail businesses.
- Strengthening Subnational Leadership and Elevating Local Impact: Bridging Local Initiatives to National and European Food System Transformation
Funding Information
- HFHP will contribute up to €2,000,000 from the HFHP pool fund. They will work to align other donors to support a greater number of applications. Based on experience, the grants for collaborative projects typically range from €200,000 to €800,000. For this funding round, HFHP expects to support between 3 and 10 projects in total, depending on grant sizes.
Geographic Focus
- EU member states, EEA member states, the UK, Switzerland, EU accession candidates, or neighbouring countries.
Eligibility Criteria
- Transnational projects are welcomed but not mandatory. A consortium can indeed comprise organisations from a single country.
- An EU-level campaign could be considered eligible, provided its fit to the calls and their relevance is evident.
- Partnerships with organisations outside Europe are possible, particularly when addressing significant sustainability issues impacting the EU market. Clear justification and demonstration of EU market connections are required. The focus is in/on Europe and the responsibility of European food systems.
- Non-Governmental-Organisations, Civil Society Organisations, Grassroots organisations, unincorporated / informal groups, agricultural cooperatives, social movements, etc are eligible.
- All entities having a not-for-profit status are eligible, independently of their year of incorporation.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following are entities that are not eligible to receive funding under the Calls to Action:
- For profit organisations (food businesses, small or medium enterprises, start-ups, etc).
- Public authorities, local governments, etc.
- Independent experts or individuals can collaborate through existing consortiums, either as consultants, advisors, or volunteers. Direct independent applications are not possible, but individuals can approach existing applicant consortiums.
For more information, visit HFHP.