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Kansas Healthy Food Initiative is sponsored by IFF Community Development Financial Institution, K-State Research and Extension, Kansas Health Foundation, NetWork Kansas. The Kansas Healthy Food Initiative offers technical assistance and financing to increase access to affordable, healthy food and improve community health and economic development in Kansas.
Funding can be used for real estate acquisition, predevelopment, construction, rehabilitation, equipment, and infrastructure. Technical assistance is provided at no cost.
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KHFI Home | K-State | Kansas State University The Kansas Healthy Food Initiative Welcome to the Kansas Healthy Food Initiative The Kansas Healthy Food Initiative (KHFI) aims to increase access to affordable, healthy food to improve the health of Kansans and the economic development of their communities.
KHFI provides loans and grants to support the growth of new or existing healthy food retail outlets in low-resource and underserved communities throughout Kansas. The program also provides technical assistance to bridge informational gaps faced by healthy food stakeholders and food retailers across the state.
The initiative is a partnership between the Kansas Health Foundation, K-State Extension’s Rural Grocery Initiative, Network Kansas, IFF, and The Food Trust. KHFI provides loans to support projects that increase access to healthy food at the retail level in low-resource and underserved areas of Kansas. To offset the debt burden of applicants, a portion of the funding package is provided as a grant.
The size of the grant is dependent on the total funding request. Technical Assistance Grants KHFI offers grants to organizations and businesses planning projects to expand healthy food access at the retail level. This financial assistance is geared toward projects that are still in early concept or predevelopment stages and are not yet ready for full implementation.
The Kansas Healthy Food Initiative has funded 79 projects in 47 counties totaling $5,710,440 in loans and grants since 2018. Program Materials also available in Spanish: KHFI Guía (pdf) and Gráfico de Proceso (pdf).
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: For-profit business enterprises, nonprofit corporations, agricultural cooperative corporations, public benefit corporations, municipal corporations, regional market facilities, public food cooperatives without membership fees. Preference for projects identifying financial resource partners. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows up to $100,000 (loan financing terms) with grant components. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Kansas Healthy Food Initiative is funded by IFF Community Development Financial Institution, K-State Research and Extension, Kansas Health Foundation, NetWork Kansas. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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