The Arlington County Department of Human Services announces a grant funding opportunity to support the implementation of its Food Security Strategic Plan.
Donor Name: Arlington County Department of Human Services
State: Virginia
County: Arlington County (VA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/09/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
Awards will be granted based in part on an organization’s ability to address selected goals and strategies outlined in the Strategic Plan. Organizations may apply for a single project, and the maximum grant award is $25,000. Funding awards will be announced in September 2024. Funds must be spent by organizations by June 30, 2025.
Funding Uses
- A food pantry purchasing software to better track clients and usage data.
- A food pantry, meal program, or housing program purchasing reusable bags or boxes to use in delivery efforts or single-use containers to distribute rescued food.
- A nutrition education provider who will teach a nutrition curriculum to a certain population of residents.
- A small food pantry purchasing a refrigerator or freezer to be able to offer produce, dairy and/or meat to clients.
Funding Information
The maximum grant award is $25,000.
Grant Period
October 2024 through June 30, 2025
Eligible Activities
To be eligible, projects must support at least one of the following strategies of the Strategic Plan.
- Systemic Change
- Improve nutrition equity by working to eliminate, reduce, and prevent disparities in food security policies, procedures, and practices to ensure that all those in need of food assistance receive the support they need.
- Food Access
- Enhance school-based supplemental food offerings, including food pantries, in-school snacks, and weekend food support.
- Establish new charitable food distributions in neighborhoods with unmet need.
- Increase capacity to deliver charitable food to those unable to access available resources.
- Increase food rescue & redistribution operations.
- Enhance and improve existing food assistance programs serving Arlington residents.
- Outreach & Education
- Promote food assistance resources and assist residents with enrolling in programs for which they may be eligible.
- Implement a coordinated SNAP outreach campaign.
- Increase nutrition education opportunities for residents of all ages.
- Partner with resident community leaders to share information about resources in key languages and provide compensation for their work.
- Capacity Building
- Develop training materials to inform social services staff and volunteers about food assistance programs, specifically SNAP and WIC, and help residents apply.
- Provide trauma-informed care training for staff & volunteers working with food insecure residents.
- Create a cultural foods guide for charitable food providers with partners from the region.
- Increase the capacity to share locally-grown produce from gardeners and farms with food pantries through expanded donation processing infrastructure.
- Collaborate with Arlington Public Schools (APS) through its forums to review existing programs and practices and address food equity.
- Informed Decision Making
- Use varied levels of engagement to encourage food assistance recipients to provide valuable feedback on programs and services.
- Collect data from food assistance organizations that provides information about usage trends and services provided.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible organizations must serve or wish to serve Arlington residents through one of the above-listed strategies outlined in the Food Security Strategic Plan and be either:
- an IRS designated 501c3 nonprofit organization OR
- a faith-based organization OR
- a public school or university
Organizations may be based in other jurisdictions, provided that the proposed project benefits eligible Arlington County residents.
If projects are sponsored by faith-based organizations, outreach efforts and services must be provided to any eligible beneficiary, regardless of affiliation. Programs cannot be marketed exclusively to members of the sponsoring organization’s religious affiliation or denomination, and proselytizing while providing services related to this grant funding is prohibited.
For more information, visit ACV.
