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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: School Food/Lunch, Farm-to-School, Child/Youth Health, Nutrition, Healthy Food Access
Deadline: Jan. 10, 2025
“The Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program is designed to increase the availability of local foods in schools and connect students to the sources of their food through education, taste tests, school gardens, field trips, and local food sourcing for school meals. Grants can launch new farm to school programs or expand existing efforts. The objective of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Farm to School Turnkey grants is to simplify the proposal-writing process by providing pre-designed activities to simplify applications for frequently proposed farm to school projects. However, it is important for all prospective applicants to read the RFA in full to ensure that they understand all submission requirements.
There are three Turnkey Grant project tracks available in FY 2025: Action Planning, Agricultural Education, and Edible Gardens. Applicants may only apply to one project track. The project types are summarized as follows:
- Turnkey – Action Planning grantees will develop a roadmap for launching or enhancing farm to school activities.
- Turnkey – Agricultural Education grantees will incorporate agricultural education into curricula.
- Turnkey – Edible Gardens grantees will implement a food production operation.”
Funder: Food and Nutrition Service
Eligibility: “(1) Eligible schools, including non-profit private and charter schools, which operate the NSLP and/or SBP; (2) Eligible child care institutions, including non-school based institutions that have an agreement with the State agency to operate CACFP; (3) Eligible summer sponsors, including non-school based institutions that have an agreement with the State agency to operate SFSP; (4) Local agencies; (5) Indian Tribal Organizations and Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs); (6) Agricultural producers; (7) Nonprofit entities.”
Amount: $5,000 – $50,000
Contact: Link →
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