Deadline: 17-Dec-21
The San Diego Foundation is seeking applications for its San Diego Women’s Foundation Grant Program from nonprofit organizations working towards long-term, sustainable, and community-centered solutions to alleviate food insecurity in areas with low-access to fresh, healthy, and culturally-appropriate food.
The Foundation will prioritize organizations that bring community voices to this work and they encourage coordinated and collaborative efforts across organizations.
Food insecurity—the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food—is an ongoing problem facing many San Diego County residents which has only been exacerbated by the pandemic. Lower-income communities and communities of color disproportionately face limited access to fresh, healthy, and culturally-appropriate food. For this funding cycle, The San Diego Women’s Foundation will grant unrestricted funding to organizations working towards long-term solutions to reduce food insecurity in these communities.
Examples of the type of work they will support include, but are not limited to:
- Improving community food environments, including through community farms and mobile or fresh markets
- Advocacy work to support sustainable food systems
- Increasing access to fresh, healthy food through investments in critical infrastructure components such as farming and gardening tools, freezers, storing units, and vehicles
- Expanding the network of businesses and organizations offering fresh and healthy foods to participants of nutritional assistance programs
- Optimizing sustainable food waste and/or recovery programs
- Offering community-based or grassroots educational initiatives that lead to increased participation of impacted communities in the solutions for increasing access to fresh, healthy, and culturally-appropriate food
Funding Information
The minimum grant to be awarded in this grant cycle is $25,000. While there is no specific maximum award amount, most grant awards are $25,000 to $60,000. An award amount greater than $75,000 is unlikely. They do not award partial grants. The full grant request will be awarded or denied. SDWF expects to award $200,000 to $225,000 in July 2022.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for a grant from SDWF, organizations must provide services in San Diego County and have tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status. An organization may serve as a fiscal sponsor for a charitable organization that does not have tax-exempt status if a cooperative relationship between the two can be clearly demonstrated. The fiscal sponsor must be willing to administer the grant if awarded.
- Collaborative proposals, in which two or more organizations share funding and work jointly to implement a program or connected services, are eligible for funding. One organization must serve as the lead applicant: the application must be submitted under that organization’s name and 501(c)(3), and funds will be granted to that organization to be dispersed among collaborators.
For more information, visit https://www.sdfoundation.org/grantseekers/apply-for-assistance/#4scf