Reinvestment Fund is inviting applications for grant awards through the Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) Planning Grant Program, a new program that will provide grants to organizations or businesses for eligible, healthy food retail or food enterprise projects that are in early-stage planning and predevelopment phases.
$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.
An informational webinar will be hosted at 2:00 PM Eastern Time on Thursday, May 16, 2024. To register for the webinar, go to: https://bit.ly/hffi-planning-grant.
For more information on eligibility and the application process, read the full Request for Applications (RFA) at: www.investinginfood.com/planning-grant.
Reinvestment Fund staff will be available to answer questions by email at help@investinginfood.com until Friday, June 14, 2024. Please include your specific question(s) in the body of your message and “HFFI Planning Grant Program” in the subject line of your message.