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Healthy Food Financing Initiative Technical Assistance

Link
View Program Website
Sponsors
Reinvestment Fund, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Deadlines
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Contact

215.574.5862
info@investinginfood.com

Purpose

As part of the Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI), the Reinvestment Fund provides technical assistance for early stage healthy food access projects in underserved areas with a focus on management, financial health, and operations.

Support may include:

  • Identifying problems or barriers to successfully increasing access to healthy food
  • Building human or systems capacity within a food retail setting that improves access to fresh and healthy food
  • Providing market research or feasibility analysis for a new project
  • Supporting larger capitalization efforts for an eligible project focused on providing improved access to healthy food
  • Assessing a project's impacts business case

Preference will be given to projects that support creation of healthy food access where none currently exists and projects that have the ability to reach populations that have been underserved by Federal HFFI programs, such as most rural and native communities.

All projects must accept, or plan to accept, Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

Eligibility

Eligible applicants include:

  • Partnerships
  • For-profit organizations:
    • Corporations
    • Limited liability companies
    • Sole proprietors
    • Public benefit corporations
  • Nonprofit organizations:
    • Institutions of higher education
    • State and local governments and governmental agencies
    • Authorities
    • Commissions
    • Food policy councils
    • Tribal governments and tribal governmental agencies, authorities, and food policy councils

Additional selection criteria is listed on the program website.

Geographic coverage
Nationwide
Amount of funding

A total of $400,000 is available for technical assistance. Awards will be made on a non-competitive, rolling basis until funds are depleted.

Application process

A link to application instructions is available on the program website.

Completed applications may be emailed to info@investinginfood.com.

Mailing and delivery address:
Reinvestment Fund
1700 Market Street, 19th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Attention: Healthy Food Financing Initiative - Technical Assistance

Tagged as
American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians · Community and economic development · Food security and nutrition · Poverty



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