RE: possible grant opportunity
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Subject: Fwd: possible grant opportunity
From: alison...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:58:19 -0600
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From: Ben Sandel <bens...@cdsconsulting.coop>
Date: January 27, 2015 at 11:03:10 AM CST
To: "Alison L. Fritz" <alison...@gmail.com>
Subject: possible grant opportunity
Hi Alison,I’m so sorry the site fell through. It looks like your site team has gotten back out there with more sites, which is great.I hope you are on the way home from wherever you were stranded. Another group brought a grant opportunity to my attention that might be worth looking at. It would go through a CDC (is TRF a CDC?) but seems quite applicable to an urban co-op and there is some good money behind it. Deadline is soon, however. Let me know your thoughts and when would be a good time for our next call. Thank you!
For Fiscal Year (FY) 2014, the Office of Community Services (OCS) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will provide approximately $9.5 million in grants ($800,000 maximum per project) to Community Development Corporations (CDCs) for projects designed to address food deserts; improve access to healthy, affordable foods; and address the economic needs of low-income individuals and families through the creation of business and employment opportunities.Through the Community Economic Development (CED) program and within the framework of the Healthy Food Financing Initiative (CED-HFFI), OCS seeks to fund projects that will implement innovative strategies for increasing healthy food access while achieving sustainable employment and business opportunities for recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other low-income individuals whose income level does not exceed 125 percent of the federal poverty level (http://aspe .hhs .gov /pover ty ).
The CED-HFFI program seeks to fund projects that implement strategies to address food deserts, increase healthy food access in low-income communities, foster self-sufficiency for low-income families, and create sustained employment opportunities in low-income communities. Funds can be used for costs associated with business start-up or business expansion activities, as consistent with the cost principles found at 2 CFR Part 230, provided that the expenditures result in the creation of positions that can be filled with low-income individuals. Examples of successful use of CED-HFFI funds include financing the construction of grocery stores, providing direct assistance to farmers, supporting urban and rural farmers markets and retail markets, expanding existing food distribution businesses, and supporting food business entrepreneurs.
Rose Malinowski Weingartner
"Food Desert - Low-income communities where a substantial number or share of residents has low access
to affordable and healthy food retailers. Healthy food options in these communities are hard to find or are
unaffordable. To qualify as a food desert, a community must either:
Be a census tract determined to be a food desert by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as identified
in USDA’s Food Access Research Atlas; OR
Be a Geographic Unit (i.e.,county (or equivalent area), minor civil division that is a unit of local
government, incorporated place, census tract, block numbering area, block group, or American
Indian or Alaska Native area), which has unemployment and poverty rates that are at or above the
state or national levels, and which has been identified as having low access to a supermarket or
grocery store through a methodology that has been adopted for use by another governmental or
philanthropic healthy food initiative.”
Using their map, it looks like we can make this argument - using a secondary measure of food deserts - for areas south of Mifflin on the East side of Broad and/or for a chunk from Tasker to Porter, Broad to 18th.
If there’s a way to make it work, though, I could put a good bit of time into this. I just don’t want to chase federal funding and find that we’re disqualified.
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