New York Healthy Food, Healthy Lives: Supporting a More Equitable Food System

HFHLequityrfp2023@nyhealthfoundation.org

The New York Health Foundation will provide funding to advance racial health equity in New York by promoting "Food Is Medicine" interventions and supporting healthier, culturally responsive food purchasing.

Project examples include:

• Co-design Food Is Medicine programs with community-based organizations and/or healthcare providers so that programs center residents and reflect the needs and preferences of the communities served
• Work with community health centers to solicit feedback from Food Is Medicine participants to improve services
• Create partnerships between health care providers and local farmers/urban farms to support the expansion of specific Food Is Medicine interventions like produce prescription programs
• Mobilize community members to advocate for access to or expansion of Food Is Medicine programs at a community-based organization and/or health care provider
• Host community workshops to engage and educate parents and students on how they can advocate for more local, healthy food in their school cafeterias
• Create opportunities for farmers and suppliers with smaller operations to compete for institutional contracts at schools, senior centers, or health systems
• Improve the capacity of grassroots coalitions to promote healthy food purchasing and strengthen resiliency in food systems

New York based nonprofit organizations and tribal governments are eligible to apply.

Priority will be given to organizations led by and directly supporting people of color (Black or African descent, Indigenous, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, and other non-white ethnicities).

Award ceiling: $50,000
Project period: Up to 2 years

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

Submit a letter of inquiry through the online portal. Selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal, with a deadline of January 17, 2024.