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Fund your healthy eating initiatives

There are many options for funding projects at your food shelf:

  • Statewide Health Improvement Program (SHIP) works to improve healthy food access. Contact your local SHIP project coordinator to inquire about mini-grant opportunities.
  • Health-related organizations in your community, including healthcare clinics, may be looking for preventive health activities to support.
  • Grantors (organizations or foundations) in your local community, as well as across the state and nation. An internet search can help you locate opportunities.

If you are looking for larger sums of money and you have the infrastructure to manage a federal grant, you may want to look into options available from the USDA Rural Development Program or the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

What you can do today

How Extension can help

For ideas or support grant writing, contact a SNAP-Ed health and wellbeing coordinator in your region.

Download the complete document: Promoting healthy eating at food shelves (PDF).

Related resource

SHIP: The Statewide Health Improvement ProgramMinnesota Department of Health — By building stronger communities, SHIP improves Minnesotans' health and saves money. Click on “Grantee support” to find RFP information.

Kelly Kunkel, Extension educator in health and nutrition

Reviewed in 2023

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