The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is seeking to fund community-led local, state, tribal, or U.S. territory 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:
The goal in deploying community prioritized policy innovation grants is to spur innovation at the local and state level by funding healthy retail advocacy work led by the communities most affected by prospective policy change. These grants are intended to encourage community leadership, including building the capacity of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color-led organizations as they advance health, nutrition, and equity through policies to improve the food retail environment. Campaigns must be driven by the communities’ interests and needs and be co-created with those most impacted by changes to the retail environment.
Policy campaigns may include, but are not limited to:
- Enhancing in-store or online healthy retail marketing, including through product, placement, pricing, or promotion
- Addressing marketing of unhealthy food in the in-store or online food retail environment
- Incentivizing or requiring dollar stores to stock or promote healthier food
- Leveraging SNAP to create a healthier retail environment (e.g., enacting retailer marketing standards or additional stocking standards, addressing barriers to online SNAP participation)
- Using state and local tax incentives to encourage healthy food store placement in communities that lack access
- Improving the food retail environment in Indigenous communities
Key Application Priorities
- This funding is focused on policy change; therefore, we are unable to fund direct service programs, pilots, and capital projects.
- They are specifically interested in partnering with organizations that are led by and mission oriented to improving conditions that affect the quality of life for Black, Indigenous, and/or Latine people.
- Work under these grants must center authentic community engagement in conceptualizing, designing, and implementing the policy campaign.
- They are open to funding campaigns that are at various stages of the policy process, including early-stage campaigns focused on community engagement (such as focus groups or key informant interviews), policy formulation and feedback, advocacy for policy passage, and/or policy implementation. For existing campaigns, applications should describe the community engagement process that has taken place to date and the ways in which the campaign goals and tactics are community driven and informed.
- They are specifically 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.
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
For more information, visit CSPI.
