REquest for pilot letters of intent
LOI submissions have closed for this round.
Please stay tuned for future funding opportunities.
Please stay tuned for future funding opportunities.
The Equitable Food Oriented Development (EFOD) Steering Committee is excited to announce that we are open for Letters of Intent (LOIs) from mission-aligned projects, several of which will be selected to submit a full application and one of which will ultimately be selected as a funded pilot project. Submissions are requested from EFOD-aligned organizations, social enterprises, and small businesses working in the United States. Please submit your LOI via this online form by Friday, June 5th, at 11:59pm Eastern Time. Successful LOI respondents will be notified early summer 2020 and invited to submit a full application.
For more information please review our full LOI request and instructions carefully.
The EFOD Steering Committee is committed to supporting innovative, community-driven projects that are using food as a strategy for equitable, people-first community development. We also recognize current challenges to raising funds for those vital projects, which are needed now more than ever; our goal is to provide a flexible and nimble source of funding and peer-to-peer technical assistance to those projects meeting this important need in their communities. The successful applicant will receive up to $100,000 in a mix of grant and loan funds, and will partner with the Steering Committee as we co-design the financial package.
Our selection criteria include:
Project LOIs are reviewed and approved by the EFOD Collaborative Investment Committee - a funding decision making body of the Steering Committee made up of EFOD practitioners and committed allies. Applicants invited to submit full proposals will be notified in the summer. The final selected project will be announced in summer 2020.
For related inquiries contact Trisha Chakrabarti, EFOD Collaborative Facilitator, at trisha@daisaenterprises.com.
For more information please review our full LOI request and instructions carefully.
The EFOD Steering Committee is committed to supporting innovative, community-driven projects that are using food as a strategy for equitable, people-first community development. We also recognize current challenges to raising funds for those vital projects, which are needed now more than ever; our goal is to provide a flexible and nimble source of funding and peer-to-peer technical assistance to those projects meeting this important need in their communities. The successful applicant will receive up to $100,000 in a mix of grant and loan funds, and will partner with the Steering Committee as we co-design the financial package.
Our selection criteria include:
- The organization, social enterprise, or business represents the EFOD values and framework
- The project is beyond the planning and ideation stages; we are looking to support the implementation, expansion or piloting of an innovative community-led project
- The organization, social enterprise, or business has fundraising experience, or a track record of grant fundraising and management
- The organization, social enterprise, or business is committed to working with us as a partner in this pilot
- The organization, social enterprise, or business must be a legal entity in the United States (including Puerto Rico and U.S. territories)
Project LOIs are reviewed and approved by the EFOD Collaborative Investment Committee - a funding decision making body of the Steering Committee made up of EFOD practitioners and committed allies. Applicants invited to submit full proposals will be notified in the summer. The final selected project will be announced in summer 2020.
For related inquiries contact Trisha Chakrabarti, EFOD Collaborative Facilitator, at trisha@daisaenterprises.com.
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