The Commonwealth is a fundraising share program that invites their community anti-hunger partners to leverage The Walk for Hunger to directly raise funds for your own anti-hunger work.
Donor Name: Project Bread
State: Massachusetts
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/15/2022
Size of the Grant: $500
Details:
Eligible organizations are invited to join The Commonwealth to directly raise funds for their own anti-hunger work, by forming a single Walk for Hunger team to represent the organization and retaining 60% of funds raised with the remaining 40% of funds raised applied to the statewide effort and cost of the event.
Teams in The Commonwealth must meet a minimum fundraising threshold of $500 to qualify for the 60/40 split. Once met, the total amount raised by the team will be allocated to the 60/40 split, excluding registration fees.
Use of Funds
Funds should be used by anti-hunger efforts only. This can include general operating for anti-hunger programs. Eligible use of funds: School teams, health centers, etc. raising money for:
- On-site food pantries
- Micro-pantries
- Back-pack programs
- School gardens
- School breakfast equipment
- Summer Eats equipment
- Double-bucks programs at farmers markets, corner stores, etc.
Eligibility Criteria
All non-profit programs making healthy food more accessible and/or affordable to low-income people in Massachusetts are eligible to participate in The Commonwealth. Examples include:
- School-based food pantries
- Back-pack programs
- School gardens
- Food pantries
- Meal programs
- Multi-service centers’ food resource programming
- Food rescue
- Farm and garden programs
For more information, visit The Commonwealth – The Walk for Hunger fundraising share Program.
