NHCHF: Food Insecurity (Healthy Eating) Priority

Overview

Our Approach to Funding

New Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation concentrates funding in five priority areas and employs both Directed (by invitation only) and Responsive (in response to proposals) grantmaking.

Our Responsive grant awards are made for General Operating Support for the day-to-day work of organizations aligned with one of our other priorities and strategies listed below. Our Responsive grants are made twice each year.

Food Insecurity (Healthy Eating) Priority

New Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation awards grants to support nonprofit organizations, coalitions, and other tax exempt entities that advance our funding priorities and strategies. Our priority populations are children up to age five and their families.

* Priority:
* Reduce food insecurity
* Funding category:
* Responsive
* Strategies:
* Improve participation in federal nutrition assistance programs for children and families.
* Example: This may include identifying and assisting eligible applicants with applying for SNAP, WIC, CACFP or school meal benefits through communication, policy and/or practices.
* Increase availability of and access to affordable, culturally appropriate fresh and local foods for purchase for children and families at risk for food insecurity.
* Example: For this strategy, we are seeking applicant organizations that can promote the purchase of local fruits and vegetables by raising awareness of SNAP Incentive and Incentive locations or by increasing access to available fresh, locally grown food for purchase by low income families with young children.
* Data collection, analysis, planning, or advocacy to:
* Build public support for policies and practices that increase participation in federal nutrition programs or
* Increase access to affordable, culturally appropriate, fresh and local foods.

Funding

Currently, applicants can apply for one year of funding, up to $20,000, to support the day-to-day work of their organization if its work aligns with one of our funding priorities and strategies.

Eligibility

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

* Entities eligible to apply for grant funding:
* Tax-exempt organizations under any part of section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code
* State or local government agencies or a unit of government
* Grassroots organizations, collaboratives or coalitions that do not hold an IRS employer identification number (EIN) may apply under the auspices of a tax-exempt fiscal sponsor (fiscal sponsorship information is gathered in the Letter of Inquiry phase)
* Applicant organizations must be in compliance with local, state, and federal regulations.
* We shifted our Responsive grantmaking from project-based to general operating support.

Ineligibility

* The Foundation does not consider requests seeking to use grant funds to purchase food for distribution.
* Funding may not be used for:
* Biomedical research
* Capital campaigns
* Expenses already incurred
* Fundraising events
* Out of state projects that do not benefit New Hampshire
* Sectarian or religious programs
* Support for political activities, i.e. campaigns
* International travel expenses
* Organizations or projects that exclude or discriminate based on race, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, national or ethnic origin