In partnership with Reinvestment Fund, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention (CDIP), also known as Get Healthy Philly, 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: 05/26/2023
Size of the Grant: $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative (PFJI) empowers communities to exercise their right to grow, sell and eat healthy food.
Philadelphia has tremendous food assets and opportunities for individual and collective action. PFJI strengthens these assets by providing funding for innovative, community-led projects that work to further food justice. PFJI prioritizes projects led by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, immigrants and people living with disabilities, and those with lived experience with health injustice. PFJI supports projects that offer fair compensation to staff and partners.
Funding Information
- Approximately $500,000 is available for grants. The maximum award for any project is $100,000. There is no minimum grant award.
- Project Period: Grant project activities must take place between July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024 with the potential for renewed funding after that period. But grant activities and expenses can be reimbursed dating back to January 1, 2023.
Eligible Projects
Eligible projects include many kinds of community-driven solutions to create a more just food system that empowers 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, providing free or emergency food or meals. Funds can also support collective work across organizations to grow, make, store, move, cook, or sell food.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must be located in the City of Philadelphia and may propose a project up to $100,000. 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 be tobacco-free.
For more information, visit Reinvestment Fund.