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Funding Opportunities

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Green Education Foundation

  • Green Thumb Challenge
    • Between Feb. 1 and August 2010, the Green Education Foundation (GEF) is calling on school communities and youth groups from across the country to plant 10,000 gardens - the biggest youth gardening initiative in history! Whether you participate in a one-day gardening activity or plant a garden that will come back year after year, your school or youth group can be part of this exciting event. Indoors or outdoors, in flower pots or on vegetable plots, GEF provides everything you need to get kids growing.
    • Fundraising for your garden
    • GEF List of Grants

 

PHENND (Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development)

  • Grants for NJ Food Stamp Enrollment from PHENND
  • For colleges and universities in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem Counties, please consider partnering with this initiative to apply for one of PHENND's Credit Path grants in student leadership and/or student internships.  Read more at www.phennd.org.

 

Sodexo STOP Hunger Scholarships

  • Stop Hunger Scholarships
    • Recognizing and honoring students for community service.
    • The Sodexo Foundation seeks applicants for the STOP Hunger Scholarships to recognize students in the fight against hunger in America. More than 49 million Americans are at risk of hunger and Sodexo, Inc. is committed to working toward a hunger-free nation. The STOP Hunger Scholarships recognize and reward students who have made a significant impact in the fight against hunger and its root causes in the United States. 

 

Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE)

  • Graduate Student Grants 
    • This spring, Northeast SARE will offer grants to graduate students doing research in sustainable agriculture. The idea is to support a new generation of scientists who have passion and curiosity about new ideas for farming and food systems. Graduate students have skill, capacity, and a rich feel for how twenty-first-century tools can be used for academic and practical discovery. 
    • The grant allows the student, under the supervision of a faculty advisor, to explore topics that will benefit farmers and add to our understanding of sustainable farm systems. Awards are capped at $15,000 and can run up to two years, and the money can be used for labor, materials, and other direct costs associated with a research effort. Proposals can cover a wide range of  topic areas-cropping systems, pest management, livestock health, farm energy production, soil quality, or the institutional purchase of local food, for example. 
    • Proposals can be submitted online from mid-April until  May 31, 2010. To learn more, go to the Northeast SARE web site at and follow the "get a grant" links to "Graduate Student Grants." Awards will be announced on July 31, 2010.   

 

  

US Department of Agriculture 

  • Grants, Loans and Support
    • Earlier this year, in response to President Obama's challenge to reinvigorate local food systems, each of USDA's 26 agencies was asked to come forward with programs that can help support this effort...and they did. 
  • Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program:  
    • Community Food Projects should be designed to (1): (A) meet the food needs of low-income people; (B) increase the self-reliance of communities in providing for their own food needs; and (C) promote comprehensive responses to local food, farm, and nutrition issues; and/or (2) meet specific state, local, or neighborhood food and agriculture needs for (A) infrastructure improvement and development; (B) planning for long-term solutions; or (C) the creation of innovative marketing activities that mutually benefit agricultural producers and low-income consumers
    • Community Food Projects fund proactive approaches to making communities more self reliant at maintaining their food systems while addressing food, nutrition, and farm issues. Grants are intended to help eligible private nonprofit entities that need a one-time infusion of federal assistance to establish and carry out multipurpose community food projects.
    • Projects are funded from $10,000-$300,000 and from 1 to 3 years. They are one-time grants that require a dollar-for-dollar match in resources. Approximately 18 percent of the submitted proposals have received awards during the history of this program. Funds have been authorized through the year, 2007 at $5 million per year.

 

 

Wallace Center: Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development Center

  • Grant Guidelines
    • Welcome to the Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development Center at the Wallace Center at Winrock International. The HUFED Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s  National Institute for Food and Agriculture (formerly Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service or CSREES), will support greater  access to healthy affordable food in communities across the country. HUFED is unique in that it will provide grants and technical assistance for enterprise development and focus on getting more healthy food—including local food—into communities who have limited access. 

 

Youth Service America Grants

  • Youth Service America supports and motivates youth, educators, and service-learning coordinators by distributing over 400 micro grants each year for service and service-learning initiatives. While most of the grants support projects that culminate on Global Youth Service Day in April, funding is also available for projects in the fall. 

 

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