The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (the “Department”) is pleased to announce the availability of funds for Round 2 of the 2024 School Food Infrastructure Competitive Grants Program.
Donor Name: New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets
State: New York
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/05/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The NYS Regional School Food Infrastructure Grant Program will encourage the use of fresh New York State farm products in meal preparation for K-12 school children, reduce food insecurity, increase market opportunities for New York State producers, and strengthen the resiliency of the state’s food system. Additionally, this program will encourage workforce development by providing training for culinary arts, food processing, safe food handling and storage, logistics, delivery, and other community needs.
This grant program will require that facilities serve multiple school districts, support their local community, and provide workforce development opportunities. Grant funds are available for the costs of capital projects, including services, expenses, and grants for the cost of construction, renovation, alteration, rehabilitation, improvements, installation, acquisition, repair or replacement of buildings or equipment for the development of facilities to support the preparation and distribution of New York focused meals for regional school infrastructure, such as aggregation, storage hubs and/or commissary-type kitchens.
Funding Information
$50,000,000 will be available over five years, with one $5,000,000 award to each of the eight regions listed below. $10,000,000 is available for the Regional School Food Infrastructure Grant 2024 Round 2, with two $5,000,000 awards being made to two separate regions. Once a grantee is awarded in a region, that region will be removed from consideration for future funding rounds. Regions awarded in Round 1 2023 and are excluded from being awarded in Round 2 are Western New York and North Country. Grantees can only apply for the full amount of $5,000,000 per proposal.
Grant Period
Project contract terms will be up to five years; start date will be 3/15/25.
Eligible Costs
Grant funds may be used for any of the following purposes directly related to the completion of an eligible project, including but not limited to:
- Salaries and wages directly tied to construction, planning and construction management and supervision
- Contractor services directly tied to construction, planning, and construction management and supervision
- Equipment with a useful life of at least five years or more
- Vehicles for transportation of produce or food
- Acquisition of permanent facilities
- Architectural and engineering services
- Legal services directly tied to the grant projects.
Eligible Projects
Only capital projects necessary for construction, renovation, alteration, rehabilitation, improvements, installation, acquisition, repair or replacement of buildings, equipment, or permanent facilities for the development of facilities to support the preparation and distribution of New York-focused meals for regional school infrastructure, such as aggregation, storage hubs and/or commissary-type kitchens. For purposes of this program, a project may be a portion of a larger overall capital project.
Geographical Areas
The following regions will be eligible for this grant:
- Finger Lakes: Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming, Yates
- Southern Tier: Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Delaware, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins
- Central New York: Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga, Oswego
- Mohawk Valley: Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Oneida, Otsego, Schoharie
- Capital Region: Albany, Columbia, Greene, Saratoga, Schenectady, Rensselaer, Warren, Washington
- Mid-Hudson: Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, Westchester
- New York City: Bronx, Kings, New York, Richmond, Queens
- Long Island: Nassau, Suffolk.
Eligible Applicants
- Registered not-for-profit organizations (e.g., tax-exempt under section 501c(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code);
- Local Municipalities
- School Districts
- Boards of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES).
For more information, visit NYSDAM.
