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2024 Local Food Purchasing & Equipment Mini-Grant Application
Tomorrow! Deadline: May 31, 2024
ASAP’s Growing Minds program is providing mini-grants of up to $500 to early care and education (ECE) sites throughout the 18 westernmost counties in North Carolina to help them provide fresh, local food to their students. Funds can be used to purchase fresh, local food from a farm, farm stand, and/or farmers market in your community. Funds can also be used to purchase equipment that will be used to prepare and cook local food for students, or to engage students in cooking activities involving local food. Some examples of equipment that could be purchased with this mini-grant include refrigerators, freezers, crockpots, pots and pans, cutting boards, and utensils/tools such as measuring cups and child-safe knives.
Learn more and apply.
Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation Announces Two Grant Opportunities Supporting School Gardening and Wildlife Habitat Programs
Tomorrow! Deadline: May 31, 2024
The Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation is excited to launch two new grant applications. These grants, announced at the Growing School Gardens Summit this past March, will support the buildout and/or expansion of school gardening programs and wildlife habitats on school campuses. Eligible organizations include schools, school districts, and 501(c)(3) nonprofits that run programming in states where Sprouts operates stores.
- Sprouting School Gardens Grant
The Sprouting School Gardens Grant is designed to help schools create or expand their garden programs on school campuses with an emphasis on nutrition education. Grants range in size from $5,000 to $10,000 and may be used to support program operations, program supplies, learning tools, and educator stipends.
- Lundberg Family Farms Sprouting Habitats Grant
In honor of Earth Month, Lundberg Family Farms has teamed up with the Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation to bring wildlife habitats to school campuses. With a shared commitment to creating healthier green spaces and expanding outdoor education, fifteen schools will be awarded $1,000 to build the wildlife habitat of their dreams.
Learn more and apply.
Beginning Farmers Stipend
Tomorrow! Deadline: May 31, 2024
RAFI is accepting applications for the 2024 Beginning Farmers Stipend. Stipends support the success of Historically Underserved Farmers and Ranchers by helping to reduce financial barriers. Stipends may be used to cover farming start-up and/or production costs. Individual applicants may request between $3,000 – $5,000 in funding. Applications are available in English and Spanish.
Learn more and apply.
Food Justice for Kids Prize by Newman’s Own Foundation
Deadline: June 11, 2024
Is your organization working towards food justice for kids in the United States? If so, this is your chance to receive up to $100,000 in grant funding over the next 2 years and deepen your impact! Apply by June 11, 2024, at one of the links below. They welcome applications from all eligible organizations, and in particular seek to be inclusive of organizations led by and/or representing historically marginalized and under-represented groups, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). The Newman’s Own Foundation is seeking applications from organizations working in two priority program areas:
(1) Indigenous Food Justice (Apply here) and
(2) Nutrition Education and School Food (Apply here)
Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) Grant
Deadline: Jun 15, 2024
Using the RFSI funding, the North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services (NCDA&CS) will fund projects that expand on-farm cold storage and packaging capacity, implement post-harvest handling, provide refrigerated trucks, and expand aggregator facilities." There is $6.2 million in funding available, and there are two application categories: equipment only ($10,000 - $100,000) and infrastructure ($100,000 - $2,000,000).
Learn more.
Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) 2024 Planning Grant Program
Deadline: June 17, 2024
The Reinvestment Fund is inviting applications for grant awards through the Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) Planning Grant Program. $6 million is available through this program for grant awards between $10,000 - $150,000. The HFFI Planning Grant Program supports innovative fresh food retail and food retail supply chain projects that seek to improve access to healthy food in underserved areas. Grants will be awarded to support early-stage planning and predevelopment activities of new or expanded food retail or food supply chain projects that seek to process, distribute, aggregate, market, and sell healthy, fresh, and affordable foods to underserved communities and markets. Eligible applicants include for-profit, nonprofit, and cooperatively owned businesses, institutions of higher education, state and local governments, and tribal governments. All applicants must be working towards improving food access for underserved communities through food retail.
Learn more and apply.
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