Building Healthy Communities – Community Food Action ¦Small Grants for Community-Led Food Projects

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The Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City (Mayor’s Fund), on behalf of the Building Healthy Communities (BHC) initiative, is accepting proposals for community-led food projects in neighborhoods that have faced especially severe impacts of COVID-19. The following neighborhoods are focus areas for the NYC Office of Neighborhood Safety as well as the Taskforce on Racial Inclusion and Equity. In order to support food security and relief, equitable access to nutritious food, and local ownership of food systems, BHC is offering small grants to community based groups interested in leading or continuing short-term community-based food access or pilot projects. Projects can include distributing food to households in need, increasing healthy food access and food justice through education and advocacy, supporting access to locally grown produce through local community gardens, hosting cooking workshops or demonstrations, and more. Groups can either have experience leading such projects or be building a new program. Youth Build Healthy Communities! This grant opportunity includes specific funds to support groups of youth who are leading community food projects for their peers and greater community. Youth groups are encouraged to apply. *Please note that being selected for this grant does not exclude grantees from standard permitting and/or licensing requirements.




Request Address 253 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10007
Contact Information: Cesaryna Pena
phone: (212) 788-7794
email: fundrfp@cityhall.nyc.gov
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