For Community-Based Organizations
Harry Chapin Self-Reliance Awards
Since 1985, the Harry Chapin Self-Reliance Awards program, administered by WHY with funding from the Harry Chapin Foundation, has distributed cash grants ($5,000 maximum award) to outstanding grassroots organizations in the United States. Organizations selected as Harry Chapin Self-Reliance Award winners are judged outstanding for their innovative and creative approaches to fighting domestic hunger and poverty by empowering people and building self-reliance. The awards honor those organizations that go beyond charity to change and that help people improve their own lives.
Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program
The USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Services (CSREES) awards grants to projects designed to increase food security in communities by bringing the whole food system together to assess strengths, establish linkages, and create systems that improve the self-reliance of community members over their food needs. The program is designed to: meet the needs of low-income people by increasing their access to fresher, more nutritious food supplies; increase the self-reliance of communities in providing for their own food needs; and promote comprehensive responses to local food, farm, and nutrition issues. These grants are intended to help eligible private non-profit entities that need a one-time infusion of Federal assistance to establish and carry out multi-purpose community food projects. Projects are funded from $10,000-$300,000 and from one to three years. These are one-time grants that require a dollar for dollar match in resources. Approximately 18% of the submitted proposals have received awards during the history of this program. Funds have been authorized through the year, 2007 at $5 million per year.
Funding and Event Opportunities for CFP Grantees.
Offers Free Assistance To Help You Develop A Successful Proposal. CFSC's technical assistance specialist for CFP applicants, Hugh Joseph, is now available for the 2005 grant cycle. He can help you decide whether or not to apply, clarify CFP program guidelines, and address technical questions. CFSC will sponsor up to an hour of one-on-one assistance per grant applicant at no cost. See foodsecurity.org/cfp_help.html for details.
The Community Food Projects Planning Guide provides a wealth of information about CFP program guidelines and how to develop a strong proposal. The Community Food Projects Planning Guide and Other Materials are available at: foodsecurity.org/cfp_help.html. The CFSC website also includes examples of successful CFP grant proposals.
Farm Aid Grant Program
Farm Aid grants are awarded to farm and rural service organizations across the country that work to strengthen family farm agriculture. Applications are due by June 30, 2007.
Filling Our Bowls: A Grassroots Guide to Fundraising, 2007.
This guide speaks to all levels of fundraising savvy and covers a wide range of funding options from in kind donations to corporate, government, and foundation grants .
For Nonprofits
USA.gov for Nonprofits
Information and services from the U.S. government about grants, loans, management, operations, and other assistance.
Foundation Center
For information on private non-profit foundations, please visit the website. The Foundation Center is a comprehensive source of information on private philanthropy
For Journalists
The Harry Chapin Media Awards
Formerly the World Hunger Media Awards, were created by World Hunger Year in 1982 to encourage the media to "tell the story of hunger and poverty." The Media Awards honor print and electronic media for their outstanding coverage that positively impacts hunger, poverty and self-reliance. The Media Awards also honor work that focuses on the causes of hunger and poverty and the forces creating self-reliance. This includes work on economic inequality and insecurity, unemployment, homelessness, domestic and international policies and their reform, community empowerment, sustainable development, food production, agriculture, nutrition and the struggle for land.
