Awards of $50,000 to $250,000 are available to support community-led efforts to advance the vision and values of GROWING JUSTICE.
Donor Name: GROWING JUSTICE
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/16/2023
Size of the Grant: $50,000 to $250,000
Details:
Support will be offered to efforts with the most promise to:
- Build power for people of color in the food value chain
- Stabilize and strengthen the efforts of people of color in the value chain to deliver good food to institutions
- Leverage resources and shift institutional procurement practices to become more equitable and sustainable
- Seed innovation and grow models for equitable good food procurement across regions and sectors
- Support the spread and scale of equitable good food procurement
Goals
The Fund for Equitable Good Food Procurement aims to advance its vision and values by supporting community-led efforts to improve local and regional food value chains.
GROWING JUSTICE seeks to better understand and support aligned efforts that help to strengthen the field of practice for emerging & growing producers, distributors, food hubs, buyers and frontline workers in the value chain; create greater resources and institutional engagement in equitable good food procurement; realize changes to institutional and public policies and systems to support equitable good food procurement sustainability and scale; and promote awareness and examples of equitable good food procurement across regions, fields and sectors.
Funding Information
Fund Vision
GROWING JUSTICE envisions a future in which Tribal, Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian and immigrant people engaged in food markets as suppliers, producers, distributors, workers, & eaters at community-serving institutions are economically and physically thriving thanks in part to efforts by large community institutions to prioritize equitable good food procurement.
Supported Activities
GROWING JUSTICE aims to support a wide range of activities to address community-defined priorities. This may include efforts that:
- Strengthen the effectiveness of racially diverse food suppliers, food producers, food distributors, and food hubs in local, regional or Tribal food value chains (for example, efforts that provide technical support to emerging farmers of color to adopt more eco-friendly or regenerative practices, or efforts to provide fiscal sponsorship to social enterprises that aim to expand operations to obtain institutional contracts).
- Forge partnerships within regions and/or Tribal Nations to help small suppliers and distributors of color win contracts from large institutions (for example: alliances that increase access to processing facilities or equipment to aggregate foods for sale to institutions).
- Incentivize large institutions to expand markets or break down barriers for local suppliers or producers of color (for example: efforts to shift institutional insurance requirements that can prevent small businesses from qualifying for institutional contracts)
- Develop, implement and share effective policies, practices and partnerships across regions (for example: models of partnerships that help to shift costs or create greater transparency in data along the food value chain).
- Build agendas to advance worker dignity and rights (for example: worker coalition organizing across jurisdictions).
Eligibility Criteria
- GROWING JUSTICE provides primary support to BIPOC-led and BIPOC-allied community- and community-based organizations, Tribal nations and their instrumentalities that are actively engaged in the food value chain and committed to transforming the food system through equitable good food procurement.
- Large institutions (such as agencies and schools) and organizations engaged in food procurement that seek support from GROWING JUSTICE are encouraged enter into partnerships with BIPOC-led and BIPOC-allied community organizations, Tribal nations and their instrumentalities that are committed to serving as the project lead.
- Vision- and values-aligned small businesses and other social enterprises working to advance equitable good food procurement are welcome to apply for GROWING JUSTICE grants via a 501c3 nonprofit fiscal sponsor.
For more information, visit GROWING JUSTICE.
