Fund for Equitable Good Food Procurement – Mar 16

Posted by Kresge Foundation on February 21, 2023

GROWING JUSTICE: The Fund for Equitable Good Food Procurement invites applications to reimagine food systems

The Kresge Foundation has announced the first funding opportunity from GROWING JUSTICE: The Fund for Equitable Good Food Procurement.

GROWING JUSTICE is a pooled fund co-designed by funders, farmers, advocates, food suppliers, purchasers, and community partners from across the country to transform food systems through equitable good food procurement. Founders include the Rockefeller, W.K. Kellogg, Kresge, Panta Rhea, and Clif Family foundations and the Native American Agriculture Fund.

The fund envisions a future in which tribal, Indigenous, Black, Latin, Asian, and immigrant people engaged in food markets as suppliers, producers, distributors, workers, and eaters at community-serving institutions are economically and physically thriving thanks in part to efforts by large community institutions to prioritize equitable good food procurement. Through the fund, grants will aim to support BIPOC-led and BIPOC-allied community- and community-based organizations, Tribal nations, and their instrumentalities that are actively engaged in the food value chain and committed to transforming the food system through equitable good food procurement.

The fund will support a wide range of activities to address community-defined priorities, including efforts that strengthen the effectiveness of racially diverse food suppliers, food producers, food distributors, and food hubs in local, regional, or Tribal food value chains; efforts to forge partnerships within regions and/or Tribal Nations to help small suppliers and distributors of color win contracts from large institutions; efforts to incentivize large institutions to expand markets or break down barriers for local suppliers or producers of color; efforts to develop, implement and share effective policies, practices, and partnerships across regions; and/or efforts to build agendas to advance worker dignity and rights.

Large community institutions and organizations engaged in institutional sourcing may facilitate the procurement of food in ways that support the physical or economic health of historically marginalized communities. However they are encouraged to enter into partnerships with BIPOC-led and BIPOC-allied community organizations, Tribal nations, and their instrumentalities committed to serving as the project lead.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Kresge Foundation website.

Deadline: March 16, 2023