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Find similar grantsHFFI Food Access and Retail Expansion (FARE) Fund is sponsored by Reinvestment Fund (in partnership with USDA Rural Development). The HFFI FARE Fund provides grants, technical assistance, and loans for projects expanding access to fresh, healthy food in rural, urban, and tribal communities.
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* Tribal Relations & Technical Assistance ## Healthy Food Financing Initiative America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) is a public-private partnership administered by Reinvestment Fund, a national mission-driven community development financial institution, on behalf of USDA Rural Development. HFFI was established by the 2014 Farm Bill and reauthorized in 2018.
HFFI provides financial and technical assistance, either directly or through other partners and intermediaries, to eligible fresh, healthy food retailers and food retail supply chain enterprises to overcome the higher costs and initial barriers to entry in underserved areas.
### Healthy Food Financing Fact Sheet Local and Regional Healthy Food Financing Partnerships Grants The Healthy Food Financing Initiative To date, HFFI has awarded over $25 million in funding directly to 162 food retail and food retail supply chain projects through the HFFI Targeted Small Grants Program. These projects have been located in 48 states, in addition to Washington DC and Puerto Rico.
In 2024, an additional $40 million was awarded in grants to 16 public-private partnerships through the HFFI Local and Regional Healthy Food Financing Partnerships Program to support the creation of a new or expansion of an existing Food Financing Program. These Food Financing Programs will serve 20 states and involve 75 partners. _**To learn more about the**__**history and impact of America’s HFFI.
**_ The HFFI Program provides funding to eligible organizations that are working to plan or develop a food retail outlet or food supply chain business model that will improve access to staple and perishable foods in underserved areas through SNAP eligible food retailers.
Eligible underserved areas include: * USDA’s 2019 USDA Low Income Low Access census tracts * Census tracts with median family incomes less than or equal to 120 percent of area median family income that are adjacent to USDA’s 2019 LILA census tracts * Geographic Areas that meet the criteria as having low access to supermarkets or grocery stores through a methodology that has been adopted for use by another government or philanthropic healthy food initiative or demonstrates other criteria describing low access to supermarkets or grocery stores for an underserved community.
_**Additional info on eligibility, including**__**an eligibility map**_. * **Building a Cooperative Food Market in North Flint, Michigan** _The 2014 Flint Water Crisis, compounded by the closure of two major grocery stores by 2015, left North Flint residents exposed to dangerous levels of lead and without access to affordable, fresh food.
_ * **Reinvestment Fund’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative is Expanding Food Access in the Southeast** _When the small “farmers market” style store that served the Oxford, Mississippi community for over 30 years closed in 2016, the neighborhood was left with limited access to fresh foods. Chicory Market, a full-service community grocery store, took over the space in 2017.
_ * **A New Food Retailer, People’s Harvest Community Grocery Store, to Expand Healthy Food Access in North County** _Erica Williams founded A Red Circle, a North St. Louis County, Missouri-based nonprofit, in 2017. A Red Circle promotes community betterment in North County through a racial equity lens.
In 2022, the organization was awarded a Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) grant to support the development of its first grocery store project—a community-owned grocery store named People’s Harvest, which will include access to affordable groceries, cold storage space for Black farmers, a community learning space, and more.
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According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Eligible organizations include food retailers and food retail suppliers that aim to increase, strengthen, expand, and innovate within the food retail supply chain in rural and urban communities. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows up to $250,000 (grants); $500,000 - $5,000,000 (loans). Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
HFFI Food Access and Retail Expansion (FARE) Fund is funded by Reinvestment Fund (in partnership with USDA Rural Development). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative Food Access and Retail Expansion (FARE) Fund is sponsored by Reinvestment Fund (in partnership with USDA Rural Development). Provides loans, grants, and technical assistance to food retailers, post-harvest supply chain enterprises, and related small businesses to expand access to staple/perishable foods in underserved areas, strengthen supply chains, create jobs, and support innovation in food retail/…
Healthy Food Financing Initiative is sponsored by Reinvestment Fund (in partnership with USDA Rural Development). This public-private partnership offers financing for healthy food retail projects, including for nonprofit and for-profit operators of healthy food businesses such as retail food stores, farmers' markets, food co-ops, and other healthy food production or distribution activities.
America's Healthy Food Financing Initiative Local and Regional Healthy Food Financing Partnerships Program (HFFI Partnerships Program) is sponsored by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development, Reinvestment Fund. This program builds the capacity of locally and regionally focused Healthy Food Financing Partnerships to provide financial and technical assistance to eligible healthy food retailers and post-harvest food retail supply chain enterprises.
America's Healthy Food Financing Initiative Local and Regional Healthy Food Financing Partnerships Program (HFFI Partnerships Program) is sponsored by USDA Rural Development / Reinvestment Fund. This program provides funding to build the capacity of locally and regionally focused Healthy Food Financing Partnerships to offer financial and technical assistance to eligible healthy food retailers and post-harvest food retail supply chain enterprises.
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