The Bronx Community Foundation is inviting individuals and organizations to submit funding applications for supporting access to food in the Bronx. Grassroots organizations, small businesses, and groups offering innovative solutions are welcome to apply.

The Bronx Community Foundation’s Food Insecurity Grant Program is designed to provide funding that will help food banks, pantries, and other nonprofit organizations, grassroots organizations, or small businesses continue to fight food insecurity in the context of the challenges posed by the COVID-19 public health crisis. 

Funding Information

• Applicants may request between $10,000-$30,000 of funding
• Grants will be awarded to groups that will have an immediate impact on Bronx individuals and households that are food insecure. Grants will be awarded for costs incurred related to supporting emergency food relief (emergency feeding, benefits sign-up programming, community farm food distribution, etc.).

Criteria

Eligible grantees must:

• Be a Bronx located/based organization or have a significant focus on serving the Bronx community;
• Provide immediate food insecurity relief;
• Have some lasting infrastructure or presence in the Bronx (e.g. 501c3, fiscally-sponsored organization, small business, mutual aid, groups with guiding principles and governance structure);
• Be able to track and report progress throughout the proposed grant period.

Applications prioritized will be:

• Black, Indigenous, or people of color-led organizations/efforts
• Grassroots organizations
• Proposing innovative solutions to food relief. Some examples (not requirements) are:
  • the applicant has included cross-sector partnerships in their proposal
  • the applicant is leading or leveraging mutual aid community-led efforts
  • the applicant considers opportunities like benefits single-stop locations into their programming

For more information, visit The Bronx Community Foundation.