The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) hereby requests applications to help supplement and extend an eligible applicant’s current home-delivered meal program for seniors and/or disabled Texans under the Texans Feeding Texans: Home-Delivered Meals Grant Program (HDM).
Donor Name: Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA)
State: Texas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/01/2022
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The Texans Feeding Texans Home-Delivered Meal Grant Program was established to help supplement and extend the applicants current home-delivered meal program for seniors and/or disabled Texans.
Funding Information
TDA anticipates that a Notice of Grant Award will be made on or around December 2022/January 2023, or as soon thereafter as practical. All approved grant projects will have a grant term of February 1, 2023, to January 31, 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for HDM funds, an applying organization must meet the following criteria:
- Must be a governmental agency or a nonprofit private organization that is exempt from taxation under Section 501(a), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as an organization described by Section 501(c)(3) of that code, that is a direct provider of home-delivered meals to the elderly or persons with disabilities in this state;
- If a nonprofit private organization, must have a volunteer board of directors;
- Must implement and enforce nondiscrimination practices;
- Must have an accounting system or fiscal agent approved by the county in which it provides meals;
- Must have a system to prevent the duplication of services to the organization’s clients;
- Must agree to use funds received under this HDM program only to supplement and extend existing services related directly to home-delivered meal services;
- Must have received a grant from the county in which the organization provides meals;
- Must submit the grant application using the form provided by TDA;
- Must submit a completed county resolution form, as provided by TDA;
- Must strictly comply with HDM rules adopted by TDA (Tex. Admin. Code, Title 4, Part 1, Ch.1, Subch. O, §§1.950 – 1.962); program guidelines and policies; and the HDM grant application and agreement; and
- Must provide a certificate (or equivalent document) of a current health inspection before grant funds are awarded.
For more information, visit TDA.
