Walmart Foundation: Inviting Canadian Organizations Focused on Reducing Food Waste

Deadline: 19 October 2018

The Walmart Foundation is inviting proposals from qualified organizations that have experience in formulating, proposing, and implementing food waste reduction efforts.

The purpose of this initiative is to reduce food waste in Canada and demonstrate that reasonable, practical solutions to reduce food waste are within our reach.

Focus Areas

This funding seeks to support promising programs that have the potential to significantly reduce food waste and loss – with the ultimate goals of preventing loss, maximizing donations of usable food, and minimizing food waste that ends up in landfills. Applications will be considered in three areas:

Prevention: Stopping waste from occurring in the first place- Advance the adoption of measurement tools and/or develop innovative prevention solutions
Recovery: Redistributing food to people- Test innovative approaches or scale proven models that advance the food recovery and distribution of perishable food
Recycling: Repurposing waste as energy, agriculture and other products- Accelerate innovations and programs that improve organic recycling

Funding Information

Requests between $300,000 and $1,000,000 (USD) will be considered.

Eligibility Criteria

This is an open RFP. Grants will be awarded on a competitive basis. Being previously funded by the Walmart Foundation does not guarantee continued funding.

Applicant Eligibility
- Applicants must satisfy the following minimum eligibility requirements to be considered:
  - Applicant organization is a tax-exempt public charity or public university under U.S. or Canadian law
  - Proposed budgets for award are between $300,000 and $1,000,000 USD
  - Grant request does not exceed 50% of the applicant’s total operating budget for the most recent fiscal year
  - Overhead costs do not exceed 10% of total budget
- Collaborative proposals with two or more eligible organizations will be considered however, one organization must serve as the grantee applicant. Collaborative proposals should clearly define roles of each organization and any amounts to be transferred by the grantee applicant to the collaborator.
Project Eligibility
- Proposed activities can be completed within one calendar year (award funding is for one year only)
- Project budget may not be solely for administration or management capacity building
- Overhead and indirect costs must not exceed 10% of total project budget
- Grant funds may not be used to cover more than 50% of personnel expenses for any single program-related position
- Applicants should demonstrate a proven ability to execute the proposed project via expertise and/or experience
- Selected organizations will be required to enter into a written grant agreement with the Walmart Foundation
- Sustainability of project activities must be outlined in the proposal beyond the life of the funding and/or measurement of impacts must be shown at the end of the grant period.