Grant Opportunity: Food Access and Retail Expansion (FARE) Fund-Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI)
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The second round of funding for the Food Access and Retail Expansion Fund is now available! Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until March 3, 2025. Applicants must submit an Inquiry Form by March 3rd to be considered eligible for round 2.
This funding opportunity hosts both grants as well as loans. Grants are available up to $250,000. It just depends on the type of project you’re looking to develop and conduct and there is a funding opportunity within this program to help make it happen. The goal for this program is for a community’s food security to develop through some sort of retail, marketing, aggregating, and distribution network expansion for local food. Nonprofits, individual farm businesses, and other types of corporations can apply in order to research and develop a plan to create more food access.
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