The Osteopathic Heritage Foundation is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Healthy Food, Healthy Franklin County Funding Initiative.
Donor Name: Osteopathic Heritage Foundation
State: Ohio
County: Franklin County (OH)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 01/28/2022
Size of the Grant: $1 million
Details:
The Foundation advances this mission through strategic funding partnerships, multi-year funding commitments, and significant investments in osteopathic research and medical education in central Ohio and nationally. In addition, the Foundation pursues opportunities to advance innovative solutions demonstrating long-term impact for vulnerable populations and communities, measurable outcomes, and sustainability.
The Foundation’s grantmaking is aligned with osteopathic medicine’s approach to patient care and service in the community. This means they apply a holistic lens to funding investments, recognizing the health and wellbeing of communities, families, and individuals are influenced by a host of conditions, including access to clinical care, social and economic factors, and physical environment. Funding priorities are also consistent with a primary tenet of osteopathic medicine, which recognizes a person is a unit of body, mind, and spirit. By applying this approach to our grantmaking, transformative impacts can be realized and resilient communities built.
The intent of the RFP is to support efforts to measurably increase the availability, affordability and consumption of healthy, local food among vulnerable people in Franklin County. Through the RFP, the Foundation will:
- Build on successes and assets in the community by supporting efforts to enhance or expand existing healthy food access initiatives among vulnerable populations
- Foster the development of innovative, new strategies and collaborations impacting how healthy food access programs are designed, coordinated and sustained
The Foundation will allocate up to $1 million to support organizations funded through the RFP.
Funding Eligibility and Considerations
Successful applicants will demonstrate a track record of results and/or commitment to the following objectives:
- Increase the supply and demand for locally-grown food and distribution chains to support a strong local food system, economic growth, and opportunities in low-income, low-access communities
- Increase the availability of healthy food in neighborhoods with low access through healthy food retail strategies, including grocery stores, corner markets, pharmacies, medical facilities, farmers markets, farm stands, and mobile food distribution
- Increase access to healthy food through expanded use of healthy food purchasing incentives
To be eligible for Healthy Food, Healthy Franklin County funding, organizations must also
- Be a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt entity as defined by the Internal Revenue Service or an instrumentality of the state
- Submit a proposal serving low-access, low-income residents in Franklin County
- Reflect alignment with the purpose of the RFP, demonstrating measurable increases in the availability, affordability, and consumption of healthy, local food among vulnerable residents in Franklin County
- Periodically convene with other organizations supported through the RFP, at the Foundation’s invitation
- Demonstrate additional funds are committed to project costs
Other considerations include the applicant organization’s history of service delivery; viability and sustainability of the request and financial position of the organization.
Collaboration among agencies is strongly encouraged to improve the chances for program success, maximize resources and significantly impact the targeted population. Collaborative proposals should identify a lead agency to serve as the project administrator, primary contact, and fiscal agent.
The Foundation will not consider the following through the Healthy Food, Healthy Franklin County Funding Initiative RFP
- More than one application per organization
- Requests for programs or services outside of Franklin County
- Requests from food pantries and/or emergency food responses
- Proposals seeking general operating support or endowment funds
- Projects or programs supporting or promoting a specific view on religious or political issues are designated to supplement or replace operating deficits; are normally the responsibility of public or governmental organizations support political candidates provide for the acquisition of equipment or funding of services from which individuals or organizations will unreasonably benefit through fees-for-service or tuition payments or require perpetual funding.
For more information, visit Healthy Food, Healthy Franklin County Funding Initiative.
