In partnership with Reinvestment Fund, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention (CDIP) seeks innovative proposals for community-led projects that grow food justice for all Philadelphians.
Donor Name: Reinvestment Fund
State: Pennsylvania
City: Philadelphia
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/03/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
Funding Information
Approximately $550,000 is currently available for grants. With this current funding amount, grants will have a maximum award of $50,000. There is no minimum grant award.
Grant Period
Grant project activities must take place between January 1, 2025 – December 2, 2025.
Eligible Projects
Eligible projects include many kinds of community-driven solutions to create a more just food system that supports communities to grow, sell, and eat healthy food. Projects could include growing or making food (gardening, incubator or community kitchens, etc), moving/distributing food (group purchasing, new delivery systems or solutions), selling food (retail or prepared), food waste recovery or food marketing, improving wages and/or working conditions in the food system, improving systems for free or emergency food or meals. Funds can also support collective work across organizations to grow, make, store, move, cook, or sell food.
Funds can be for hard and soft costs for planning or implementation, including land, property, building improvements, and equipment. Expenses related to land, property and building improvements will need to be reviewed by the City for compliance with City regulations.
Sample project ideas (but feel free to propose a project unlike those listed here):
- Re-opening a restaurant space selling healthy meals as a worker-owned cooperative
- Coordinating on covering delivery costs for food/produce for a summer meal site(s)
- Covering initial start up costs for collective food buying across organizations or businesses
- Starting a new production or processing facility to make value-added products such as fruit salad cups
- Creating a hyperlocal food hub for urban farmers and gardeners to sell produce
- Developing systems to distribute free surplus produce
- Food distribution delivery logistics solutions
- Cooperative purchasing to increase purchasing power for smaller businesses such as child care centers
- Expanding existing healthy food businesses to serve more clients or starting a new healthy food business in a neighborhood that lacks access to healthy foods. (Starting soft costs could include feasibility studies, business consulting, predevelopment costs, or initial inventory.)
- Adding a delivery and online purchasing model to a healthy food business to increase accessibility for disabled and/or homebound community members.
- Starting a produce distribution enterprise to help distribute produce more readily to smaller retailers or community-based organizations.
- Safe routes to healthy food (transportation alternatives or strategies).
Who Can Apply?
- This open call for ideas is for individuals, businesses, or organizations doing community-led work that contributes to an equitable and sustainable local food system in Philadelphia.
- Applicants must be located in the City of Philadelphia and can be nonprofit organizations, for-profit businesses, cooperatives or collectives working on food justice are eligible to apply. Retail and non-retail food businesses are eligible. Applicants must make a commitment that their businesses and other spaces will be tobacco-free.
For more information, visit Reinvestment Fund.
