The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is seeking to fund local, state, tribal, or U.S. territory policy campaigns to improve the healthfulness of the food retail environment.
Donor Name: Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/12/2022
Size of the Grant: Up to $70,000
Grant Duration: 15 months
Details:
CSPI has identified the following policy priorities for this funding opportunity:
- A state or local policy or ordinance campaign to create a healthier in-store or online food retail environment through placement and promotion strategies, including
- Keep Soda in the Soda Aisle policy
- Healthy endcaps policy
- A state or local policy or ordinance campaign to increase healthy food availability at dollar stores, such as minimum required floor or shelf space for fruits and vegetables.
Key Application Priorities
- Funded campaigns must seek to secure a binding government policy (including legislation, executive order, regulation, or ordinance). Voluntary or programmatic initiatives are not eligible.
- They are not currently able to fund direct service provision or pilot projects, capital projects, or general operating grants.
- They are not currently funding standalone healthy checkout campaigns or healthy corner store campaigns through this opportunity.
- They are especially interested in applications from regions that have been disproportionately burdened by inequitable access to healthy food retailers. This includes rural areas, the South, and applications that improve the food environment for Indigenous populations.
- They will prioritize applications from organizations who are representative of the population for which a policy is focused or are directly partnering with individuals and/or community organizations representing the population most affected by the proposed policy change. If an application is from a white-led organization, they recommend that a minimum of 25% of your grant supports organizations and/or individuals from communities most impacted by health disparities.
Funding Information
Applications can be submitted for up to $70,000 in direct costs for a duration of up to 15 months and can support non-lobbying and lobbying activities
Who can apply?
To apply for grants offered by CSPI, organizations must be located in the United States or U.S. Territory, AND
- Be a nonprofit with a 501(c)(3) public charity or other tax-exempt designation from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), OR
- Be fiscally sponsored by a nonprofit as described above If you are an emerging, grassroots, and/or community-based organization that does not yet have tax-exempt status or a fiscal sponsor, please reach out to us as they may have future grant opportunities available to you, or there may be other ways that you can partner with us.
For more information, visit CSPI.
