The New York Health Foundation is pleased to announce its Healthy Food, Healthy Lives: Supporting a More Equitable Food System.
Donor Name: New York Health Foundation
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/23/2023
Size of the Grant: $50,000
Grant Duration: 24 months
Details:
NYHealth is intentionally and explicitly increasing the efforts to improve racial health equity. They seek to support organizations led by and supporting communities of color to implement projects that are informed by and responsive to community needs.
Through this Request for Proposals (RFP), NYHealth aims to advance racial health equity through two of the Healthy Food, Healthy Lives strategies: (1) promoting Food Is Medicine interventions and (2) supporting healthier, culturally responsive food purchasing.
- Promoting Food Is Medicine interventions: Interventions that involve a health care response to the need for better nutrition fall under the umbrella term Food Is Medicine. Interventions include programs such as medically tailored meals, medically tailored groceries, and produce prescription programs.
- Supporting healthier, culturally responsive food purchasing: Given their massive scale, public institutions can use their purchasing power to promote health by buying more nutritious and culturally responsive food. There are opportunities for schools, senior centers, correctional facilities, hospitals, or other entities to purchase and serve healthier food and create opportunities for farmers and suppliers with smaller operations to compete for institutional contracts.
Funding Information
Individual project budgets may not exceed $50,000. Funds requested must be commensurate with the work proposed.
Grant Period
Projects cannot exceed 24 months in duration.
Eligibility Criteria
All applicants are required to be New York State-based. Nonprofit organizations and tribal governments are eligible to apply. If relevant, organizations can partner on an application; however, there must be one lead applicant. Past NYHealth grantees as well as organizations that have not previously received NYHealth funding are welcome to apply. Applicants may use a fiscal sponsor if not incorporated into a 501(c)(3). Individuals are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit NYHF.
