Wallace Center Launches Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development Center

It was announced that the Wallace Center recently launched the Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development Center (HUFED). The Wallace HUFED Center, supported by a grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, was created to respond to the growing need to reorganize, rethink and transform the way food is grown, sourced, distributed, marketed and consumed in the United States in order to better meet the need of historically underserved communities. The Center will specifically focus on the need to make healthier and more affordable food available in low-income areas; to increase market access for small and mid-sized agricultural producers; and to promote positive economic activities generated by attracting healthy food enterprises into underserved communities.

The Wallace HUFED Center will apply market-based solutions with a business orientation to the problem of food access by providing technical and financial assistance to enterprising and innovative projects that directly address and resolve food access issues. Through grants, technical assistance and other activities, the Wallace HUFED Center will seek to build local capacity to serve food needs in urban and rural low-income, historically excluded and underserved communities and communities of color.

The grant program has officially opened and is issuing a call for Letters of Interest (LOI). Grants will range from one year $10,000-$25,000 grants to three year grants up to $100,000. Technical assistance will also be available to successful grantees. The Center anticipates supporting approximately 30 projects over the next three years and expects to fund a range of strategies and organizations ranging from for-profits to not-for profits. LOIs should be brief but carefully thought out concept papers that provide their technical review panel sufficient information.

After review, a subset of applicants will be invited to submit full proposals. LOIs are due March 8, 2010 and should be submitted through the Center’s online submission form after reviewing the complete Grant Guidelines.

Click here to review or download the full set of Grant Guidelines, which contain instructions for writing and submitting a LOI, further information about the purpose and goals of the Center, and greater detail on grant types. You may also contact the Wallace HUFED Center Help Line: (703) 531-8810 or via email: hufed@winrock.org.

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