Deadline: 12-Nov-21
The Feed Opportunity Fund is seeking applications for Project Grants Program to support initiatives that go beyond emergency food relief to provide programs or interventions that reduce barriers to food security for food-insecure individuals and households and which may reduce food insecurity.
Focus Areas
The Feed Opportunity Fund is an open call for compelling ideas and approaches that can contribute to a reduction in food insecurity, so that more people in Canada have stable physical and economic access to enough nutritious and culturally appropriate food. Specifically, they are looking for applications that address one or more of the following focus areas:
- Increase physical access to food
- Make food consistently available
- Increase affordability of food
- Increase access to financial benefits
Funding Information
- Project Grants typically range from $25,000–$150,000 annually, although increased funding may be considered for initiatives with high potential for scale impact.
- Grants typically range from one to three years and are subject to annual review.
- In exceptional cases, approved funding may exceed three years to allow time for grantees to prepare, launch, test and scale.
Eligible Projects
They also welcome projects that incorporate the following elements:
- Build financial literacy and wellbeing
- Provide dignified, multi-service approaches
- Reduce social isolation and build agency
- Improve mental and/or physical health and wellbeing
- Increase food and nutritional knowledge
- Organizations may apply individually or in collaboration with others. To be eligible for the Feed Opportunity Fund, initiatives must:
- Be led by a registered charity or qualified donee
- Demonstrate an innovative approach and test measurable hypotheses
- Seek to advance new ideas or fill knowledge gaps on food security and insecurity in Canada
- Work openly and closely alongside the Centre to learn what works and what doesn’t through rigorous annual evaluation, and share that learning with others to advance broader knowledge and change
- Be willing to work with the Centre to course correct, overcome challenges and enable project resiliency
- While food does not need to be a core component of a project, the work must be led by or include organizations that provide access to food or have advancing food security as a primary outcome.
For more information, visit https://www.feedopportunity.com/apply-for-funding/