CFSCNY: Chobani Community Impact Fund

Chobani Community Impact Fund

The Chobani Community Impact Fund will prioritize programs and organizations working to combat food and nutrition insecurity in the following ways:

• Community-based programs that support access to healthy meals and nutritional education outside school on weekends and during the summer
• Food and nutritional programs that provide support for expecting mothers and caregivers
• Programs that address the food and nutrition needs of preschool children
• Health provider/clinician efforts that provide nutritional education and/or food as prescription programming
• Programs or initiatives that support the ability of individuals to enroll in food-related public benefits (ex. SNAP)
• Food pantries, including school-based food pantries and mobile pantries
• Programs or initiatives supporting the connectivity or coordination of hunger-fighting efforts
• Meal or grocery delivery programs School-based programs that enhance or improve state and/or federal assistance efforts

Eligibility

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

• 501 (c)3 organizations primarily benefitting residents of Chenango and/or Otsego counties
• Organizations requiring a fiscal sponsor, please inquire before submitting an LOI
• Certain local government agencies and municipalities, public school systems within the Foundation’s five-county service region

Ineligibility

• We Do Not Consider Requests For
  • Funding to reimburse an organization for costs that were incurred prior to the date the grant was awarded.
  • Funding for capital campaigns
  • Funding to pay existing mortgages
  • Grants to individuals  without a fiscal sponsor
  • Funding for religious purposes
  • Funding to organizations that have so many counterparts (e.g. scout troops, ambulance squads, volunteer or municipal fire departments, individual schools within a school district, individual school classrooms, PTAs) that it would be difficult to assess the relative merits of similar proposals.