The Pepco Energizing Small Business Grant Program, presented in partnership with Hello Alice, is offering eight grants totaling nearly $600,000 in an effort to increase access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food options throughout portions of northeast Washington, D.C.
Donor Name: Hello Alice
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/11/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Pepco is proud to invest in economic support and community development in neighborhoods that surround the company’s Benning Service Center in northeast Washington, D.C. By supporting these businesses, Pepco hopes to strengthen the local food economy and create a more equitable food system.
Entry Qualifications
- Sponsor may disqualify any Entry that, as adjudged in Sponsor’s determination:
- contains any material that is indecent, obscene, hateful, discriminatory; defamatory, slanderous, libelous, unlawful, or otherwise inappropriate;
- is submitted in bad faith, is inappropriate, or otherwise violates these Terms and Conditions;
- is submitted by an Entrant or Officer who is ineligible or noncompliant with these Terms and Conditions; and/or,
- is submitted by any person who tampers with or abuses any aspect of the Program or the Hello Alice website, who acts in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, who violates these Terms and Conditions, or about whom a background check provides unsatisfactory results.
- If there is a dispute about who submitted an Entry, the authorized account holder of the email address used to register will be deemed to be the Officer and the business identified in the Entry will be deemed the Entrant for the Program. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address. The Officer may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible to enter a business in the Program, you (“Officer”) must be all of the following as of the first day of the Program Period (defined below):
- an entrepreneur who is the leading executive (i.e. Founder and/or President, CEO, CFO, COO, or any such other similar title) of a business that meets the below business criteria;
- a legal resident of one of the fifty United States, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico;
- eighteen (18) years of age or older (19 in AL and NE).
- To be eligible to participate in the Program, the business (“Entrant”) must meet all of the following criteria as of the first day of the Program Period:
- Be a for-profit business licensed and registered in the District of Columbia;
- Be a for-profit business plans to use the program funds to expand or relocate a consumer-direct service that provides equitable access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food to US Census Bureau tracts in the following neighborhoods: Parkside/Mayfair, Marshall Heights, Carver-Langston, River Terrace, Kingman Park, Eastland/Kenilworth, and Deanwood.
- Must be in the food or food service industry; and
- Must be in operation for at least two years at the start of the program.
- The potential winners are subject to verification of eligibility by Sponsor, which may include completing associated documentation.
For more information, visit Hello Alice.
