RFP: Wallace Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development (HUFED) Center

Posted by on January 02, 2011

Wallace Center at Winrock International Announces
2011 Request for Applications

Wallace HUFED Center will fund one-to-two year grants to establish and develop food enterprises bringing more healthy food to underserved communities across the United States

Application Details: http://hufed.org/apply

It is our pleasure to announce the 2011 request for applications for the Wallace Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development (HUFED) Center. The Wallace HUFED Center, supported by a grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, was created to respond to the growing need to reorganize, rethink and transform the way food is grown, sourced, distributed, marketed and consumed in the United States in order to better meet the need of historically underserved communities. Specifically, the HUFED Center will focus on the need to make more healthy and affordable food available in low-income areas; to increase market access for small and mid-sized agricultural producers; and to promote positive economic activities generated by attracting healthy food enterprises into underserved communities.

The Wallace HUFED Center will apply market-based solutions with a business orientation to the problem of food access by providing technical and financial assistance to enterprising and innovative projects that directly address and resolve food access issues. Through grants, technical assistance and other activities, the Wallace HUFED Center will seek to build local capacity to serve food needs in urban and rural low-income, historically excluded and underserved communities.

By way of this announcement, we are launching the 2011 request for applications and are seeking submissions of letters of interests (LOIs), as the first step in the application process. Grants range from one-year grants up to $25,000, or two-year grants up to $60,000. Technical assistance will also be available to selected grantees. We will fund a range of innovative strategies and organizations seeking to increase healthy food access to underserved communities. LOIs should be brief, but carefully thought out concept papers that provide our technical review panel sufficient information. After review, a subset of applicants will be invited to submit full proposals. LOIs are due Friday, January 14, 2011 and should be submitted through our online submission form.

To review or download the full set of Grant Guidelines, which contain instructions for writing and submitting an LOI, further information about the purpose and goals of the Center, and greater detail on grant types, please see http://bit.ly/hufedapply. You may also contact us via the Wallace HUFED Center Help Line: (703) 531-8810 or via email: hufed@winrock.org.