America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative: Partnerships Program

America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative

America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) was created to improve access to healthy foods in underserved areas, to create and preserve quality jobs, and to revitalize low-income communities.

America’s HFFI is a public-private partnership administered by Reinvestment Fund on behalf of USDA Rural Development.

Partnerships Program

The HFFI Local and Regional Healthy Food Financing Partnerships Program (HFFI Partnerships Program) is a new grant program under the expanded America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative.

The HFFI Partnerships Program will offer funding to support local capacity and capital to establish and grow local, regional, or state food financing programs. The Program will offer grants to support partnerships between organizations from different sectors that will work together at the local, state, or regional level to improve access to fresh, healthy, affordable food by providing financial and technical assistance to eligible projects. This new program will expand the impact of the HFFI program nationally and bring in new partners to address the complexity of food access in communities across America. Through support of local and regional Partnerships, this program will build capacity for local groups serving the needs of their communities and deepen the reach of HFFI into underserved communities.

The HFFI Partnerships Program offers financial assistance to eligible Partnerships for two types of activities. Applicants may apply for either or both capacity building activities and credit enhancement activities.

• Capacity Building activities will allow a new or existing Partnership to research, plan, or implement an FFP to provide more funding and technical assistance to Food Retail and Food Enterprise projects.
• Credit Enhancement activities will allow Qualified Lenders in the Partnership to increase the deployment of financial assistance to Food Retail and Food Enterprise projects in Underserved Areas.

Eligibility

_ You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website.