PeliCAN Grant Program

PeliCAN Grant Program is sponsored by City of St. Petersburg. Provides funding and support to St.

Petersburg residents interested in starting mobile fresh produce businesses to improve access to healthy food in underserved neighborhoods.

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Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. The PeliCAN (Community Access to Nutrition) Grant Program is a a new funding opportunity and program designed to address economic opportunity and healthy food access issues for residents within USDA-identified Healthy Food Priority areas of St. Pete.

The goal of the program is to improve physical and economic access to fresh fruits and vegetables for residents in Healthy Food Priority Areas through a mobile model, increasing SNAP access points and cultivating community-based business leaders The PeliCAN Grant Program will offer starting capital and stipend, technical training and mentorship to individuals for the purpose of building a mobile healthy food retail establishment.

The Program is administered by Healthy St. Pete, a division of the City of St. Petersburg’s Parks and Recreation Department.

The program aims for a systems change approach to addressing the social determinants of health that relate to healthy food access, chronic diet-related disease instances, and economic instability. View the Healthy Food Priority Areas Eligible applicants should be St. Pete residents with an interest in advocating for their community's health and food access in their neighborhood.

Grant applications are open now through May 31, 2026. Submit your application below. As a part of the PeliCAN Grant Program, selected community members will receive funding and support to build mobile fresh produce businesses, called the Fresh Start Mobile Market.

Take a quick survey to tell us where you’d like to see affordable fresh fruits and vegetables in your community. All answers are anonymous. No personal information is collected, and you do not need to make an account or provide an email to participate.

Submit your feedback below. Healthy St. Pete administers the grant and provides program management, but the program is supported through collaborative partnerships.

Healthy St. Pete has partnered with local organizations that have committed to providing services like education, training, banking, and use of space to grant recipients. Current programmatic partners for the PeliCAN program include: Florida Central Credit Union - Business banking, point of sale software, and tailored financial literacy and learning opportunities St.

Petersburg Greenhouse - One-on-one mentorship, development of individual business plans, connections with business mentors, and guidance on state and local business regulations required to establish a small business Local Commissary Partner(s)- Healthy St. Pete intends to partner with local businesses or organizations to provide commissary storage to the PeliCAN program participants.

Their partnership in the PeliCAN program will offer participants cold storage in a commercially licensed facility and vendor trailer parking The PeliCAN Grant program is made possible through a partnership with The Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg and Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital, as a project under the Healthy People 2025 collaborative grant program. The PeliCAN Grant Program is administered by Healthy St.

Pete, a division of the City of St. Petersburg’s Parks and Recreation Department. Learn more about Healthy St.

Pete at healthystpetefl. com .