The Port Angeles Food Bank received a $900,000 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service. The grant was awarded under the Community Facilities Loans and Grants program (CFDA 10.766) on November 28, 2022 for a two-year period concluding on November 28, 2024. The funding will support construction and improvement projects at the Port Angeles Food Bank to provide essential community facility and service needs for rural residents. Specifically, the grant aims...
The Port Angeles Food Bank received a $918,500 project grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service under the Community Facilities Loans and Grants federal grant program (CFDA 10.766). The funding will support the Port Angeles Food Bank in constructing and improving community facilities to provide essential services to rural residents in Port Angeles, Washington through April 2024. Specifically, the grant will enable the food bank to expand and enhance its operations...
The Centro Cultural Del Condado De Washington (CCCDW) received a $732,300.22 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) on July 15, 2022 to support community food projects through July 14, 2026. Under NIFA's Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program (CFPCGP), which aims to improve local food systems through collaboration across sectors, CCCDW will deliver services to foster understanding of food security and...
The Our Neighbors' Table, Inc. was awarded a $800,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Community Food Projects (CFP) federal grant program. The award will support efforts to achieve food security in the Lower Merrimack Valley communities of Massachusetts by 2029 through providing critical infrastructure to more efficiently supply local, healthy food to food insecure households. Specifically, the funding will allow...
The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $364,944 Project Grant to the Kenaitze Indian Tribe in Kenai, Alaska under the Community Food Projects (CFDA 10.225) program. The grant will support efforts to improve access to fresh, healthy fruits and vegetables for the Kenaitze tribe and greater Kenai Peninsula region, where over 40% of residents struggle to obtain desired food items due to high costs and limited availability, especially of produce. Grant...
Fish Food Bank was awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) CFDA No. 10.331. The grant will support Community Supported Agriculture in Kittitas County, Washington from September 2022 through September 2025. GusNIP aims to increase access to fresh, healthy foods among low-income communities through projects that provide incentives for purchasing fruits and...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) awarded a $772,000 four-year Project Grant under the Community Food Projects (CFDA 10.225) program to Project New Village, a Black-led, community-rooted non-profit in San Diego, California. The project aims to address food and nutrition insecurity in underserved communities by: 1) collaborating with a local high school culinary arts program to develop young people's capacity to prepare value-added and...
The Lopez Island Family Resource Center (LIFRC) was awarded a $691,926 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) to build community food security and job opportunities within the San Juan County, WA food system through October 31, 2025. This funding supports the Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program (CFPCGP), which aims to bring together stakeholders across the food system to foster understanding of national food...
The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded a $573,489 Formula Grant to the Washington State Department of Agriculture under the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CFDA #10.565) for the period of October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. The grant funding will support the provision of USDA Foods and funding to six local emergency food providers—Central Kitsap Food Bank, Rural Resources Community Action, Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County, Thurston...
The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Forsyth Farmers Market Inc. a $748,042 Project Grant under the Community Food Projects (CFP) federal grant program. The four-year award running from November 1, 2022 to October 31, 2026 will support building community around farm truck 912 in Savannah, Georgia. The Community Food Projects program aims to bring together stakeholders across the food system to foster understanding of national food security trends and...