Project Grant 25A60CP000381

This federal Project Grant award of $150,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration under the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending program (CFDA 17.289). The grant funding will enable City Seed, Inc., doing business as CitySeed, a non-profit organization, to scale its internal staff and systems to better serve the business, marketing, and sourcing needs of farms and food ventures in its growing network, especially targeting people of color, women, and immigrant entrepreneurs within a 45-minute radius of New Haven, Connecticut. The key products and services to be delivered through this funding include entrepreneurial training, mid-tier value chain development, and supply chain coordination to support the local and regional food system. Additionally, the grant will support CitySeed's efforts to implement measures in response to COVID-19, such as workplace safety, market pivots, retrofitting facilities, transportation, worker housing, and medical expenses for food processors, distributors, farmers markets, and producers.