Grant funding for food access and nutrition is important to support initiatives that benefit our DC communities. Below you can find resources to help you better understand the types of funding that may be available, along with information to assist in planning, preparing and submitting applications for funding.
America in Bloom Grant Lists
Awesome Foundation
Ben And Jerry’s Foundation
The Grassroots Organizing for Social Change Program offers general or project support to non-profit organizations throughout the United States
Bowers Fund
The purpose of the Bowers Fund is to strengthen the food co-op community and it does this by giving grants for the training and education of food co-op staff, managers, and board members.
Captain Planet Foundation
The Captain Planet Foundation primarily makes grants to U.S.-based schools and organizations with an annual operating budget of less than $3 million.
CVS Health Grants Program
Grants are awarded to free and charitable clinics, school-based health centers and community health centers nationwide to increase access to care and improve health outcomes for people of all ages. Please note: Application for a CVS Health Foundation Grant is by invitation only.
DC Department of Health
The Mission of the DC Department of Health (DC DOH) is to promote and protect the health, safety and quality of life of residents, visitors and those doing business in the District of Columbia. DC DOH’s responsibilities include identifying health risks; educating the public; preventing and controlling diseases, injuries and exposure to environmental hazards; promoting effective community collaborations; and optimizing equitable access to community resources.
Fiskars Project Orange Thumb
Project Orange Thumb is a community garden grant program that provides tools and resources to help communities reach their goals for collaboration, neighborhood beautification, and healthy, sustainable food sources.
Garden ABCs
GardenABCs is here to help with books for children and all the resources you need to support school, community or home garden projects
Grants.gov
Halcyon Incubator
The Halcyon Incubator provides intrepid social entrepreneurs with an 18-month fellowship, comprised of a five month residency, 12 months of rent-free workspace, $10,000 stipend during the Residency Phase, complimentary strategic, legal and PR support, mentorship, access to a network of potential funders from all sectors, and more.
Honda Foundation
The American Honda Foundation engages in grant making that reflects the basic tenets, beliefs and philosophies of Honda companies, which are characterized by the following qualities: imaginative, creative, youthful, forward-thinking, scientific, humanistic and innovative. We support youth education with a specific focus on the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects in addition to the environment.
IOBY
the crowd-resourcing platform that helps bring your great ideas to life, block by block. ioby supports citizen-led, neighbor-funded projects. On ioby, you can raise tax-deductible donations, recruit local volunteers and share ideas with a likeminded community.
Public Lands Every Day
Sam’s Club Grant Program
At the local level, Sam’s Club facilities are encouraged to support nonprofits or other causes important to their community, provided they fall within one of the Walmart Foundation’s focus areas: Opportunity, Sustainability and Community. Other local areas of focus may include Education and Youth Success.
The Campus Kitchens Project
We partner with high schools, colleges and universities to share on-campus kitchen space, recover food from cafeterias and engage students as volunteers who prepare and deliver meals to the community.
The Campus Kitchens Project - Specific Information on Grants & Funding
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
We are a $3.6 billion private, national foundation that works to expand opportunities in America’s cities through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services and community development.
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
The Lunchbox School Grants
Walmart Community Giving
Through the Community Grant Program, our associates are proud to support the needs of their communities by providing grants to local organizations.
Whole Food Community Giving
As a company, we are quite unique. Our stores are not cookie cutter big box-type stores with directives from “corporate” about how to run the business. Each of our stores has a lot of latitude in deciding the best way to operate that individual store to meet the needs of the local community.
Ben And Jerry’s Foundation
The Grassroots Organizing for Social Change Program offers general or project support to non-profit organizations throughout the United States
Bowers Fund
The purpose of the Bowers Fund is to strengthen the food co-op community and it does this by giving grants for the training and education of food co-op staff, managers, and board members.
Captain Planet Foundation
The Captain Planet Foundation primarily makes grants to U.S.-based schools and organizations with an annual operating budget of less than $3 million.
CVS Health Grants Program
Grants are awarded to free and charitable clinics, school-based health centers and community health centers nationwide to increase access to care and improve health outcomes for people of all ages. Please note: Application for a CVS Health Foundation Grant is by invitation only.
DC Department of Health
The Mission of the DC Department of Health (DC DOH) is to promote and protect the health, safety and quality of life of residents, visitors and those doing business in the District of Columbia. DC DOH’s responsibilities include identifying health risks; educating the public; preventing and controlling diseases, injuries and exposure to environmental hazards; promoting effective community collaborations; and optimizing equitable access to community resources.
Fiskars Project Orange Thumb
Project Orange Thumb is a community garden grant program that provides tools and resources to help communities reach their goals for collaboration, neighborhood beautification, and healthy, sustainable food sources.
Garden ABCs
GardenABCs is here to help with books for children and all the resources you need to support school, community or home garden projects
Grants.gov
Halcyon Incubator
The Halcyon Incubator provides intrepid social entrepreneurs with an 18-month fellowship, comprised of a five month residency, 12 months of rent-free workspace, $10,000 stipend during the Residency Phase, complimentary strategic, legal and PR support, mentorship, access to a network of potential funders from all sectors, and more.
Honda Foundation
The American Honda Foundation engages in grant making that reflects the basic tenets, beliefs and philosophies of Honda companies, which are characterized by the following qualities: imaginative, creative, youthful, forward-thinking, scientific, humanistic and innovative. We support youth education with a specific focus on the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects in addition to the environment.
IOBY
the crowd-resourcing platform that helps bring your great ideas to life, block by block. ioby supports citizen-led, neighbor-funded projects. On ioby, you can raise tax-deductible donations, recruit local volunteers and share ideas with a likeminded community.
Public Lands Every Day
Sam’s Club Grant Program
At the local level, Sam’s Club facilities are encouraged to support nonprofits or other causes important to their community, provided they fall within one of the Walmart Foundation’s focus areas: Opportunity, Sustainability and Community. Other local areas of focus may include Education and Youth Success.
The Campus Kitchens Project
We partner with high schools, colleges and universities to share on-campus kitchen space, recover food from cafeterias and engage students as volunteers who prepare and deliver meals to the community.
The Campus Kitchens Project - Specific Information on Grants & Funding
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
We are a $3.6 billion private, national foundation that works to expand opportunities in America’s cities through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services and community development.
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
The Lunchbox School Grants
Walmart Community Giving
Through the Community Grant Program, our associates are proud to support the needs of their communities by providing grants to local organizations.
Whole Food Community Giving
As a company, we are quite unique. Our stores are not cookie cutter big box-type stores with directives from “corporate” about how to run the business. Each of our stores has a lot of latitude in deciding the best way to operate that individual store to meet the needs of the local community.
The Grassroots Organizing for Social Change Program offers general or project support to non-profit organizations throughout the United States
The purpose of the Bowers Fund is to strengthen the food co-op community and it does this by giving grants for the training and education of food co-op staff, managers, and board members.
Captain Planet Foundation
The Captain Planet Foundation primarily makes grants to U.S.-based schools and organizations with an annual operating budget of less than $3 million.
CVS Health Grants Program
Grants are awarded to free and charitable clinics, school-based health centers and community health centers nationwide to increase access to care and improve health outcomes for people of all ages. Please note: Application for a CVS Health Foundation Grant is by invitation only.
DC Department of Health
The Mission of the DC Department of Health (DC DOH) is to promote and protect the health, safety and quality of life of residents, visitors and those doing business in the District of Columbia. DC DOH’s responsibilities include identifying health risks; educating the public; preventing and controlling diseases, injuries and exposure to environmental hazards; promoting effective community collaborations; and optimizing equitable access to community resources.
Fiskars Project Orange Thumb
Project Orange Thumb is a community garden grant program that provides tools and resources to help communities reach their goals for collaboration, neighborhood beautification, and healthy, sustainable food sources.
Garden ABCs
GardenABCs is here to help with books for children and all the resources you need to support school, community or home garden projects
Grants.gov
Halcyon Incubator
The Halcyon Incubator provides intrepid social entrepreneurs with an 18-month fellowship, comprised of a five month residency, 12 months of rent-free workspace, $10,000 stipend during the Residency Phase, complimentary strategic, legal and PR support, mentorship, access to a network of potential funders from all sectors, and more.
Honda Foundation
The American Honda Foundation engages in grant making that reflects the basic tenets, beliefs and philosophies of Honda companies, which are characterized by the following qualities: imaginative, creative, youthful, forward-thinking, scientific, humanistic and innovative. We support youth education with a specific focus on the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects in addition to the environment.
IOBY
the crowd-resourcing platform that helps bring your great ideas to life, block by block. ioby supports citizen-led, neighbor-funded projects. On ioby, you can raise tax-deductible donations, recruit local volunteers and share ideas with a likeminded community.
Public Lands Every Day
Sam’s Club Grant Program
At the local level, Sam’s Club facilities are encouraged to support nonprofits or other causes important to their community, provided they fall within one of the Walmart Foundation’s focus areas: Opportunity, Sustainability and Community. Other local areas of focus may include Education and Youth Success.
The Campus Kitchens Project
We partner with high schools, colleges and universities to share on-campus kitchen space, recover food from cafeterias and engage students as volunteers who prepare and deliver meals to the community.
The Campus Kitchens Project - Specific Information on Grants & Funding
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
We are a $3.6 billion private, national foundation that works to expand opportunities in America’s cities through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services and community development.
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
The Lunchbox School Grants
Walmart Community Giving
Through the Community Grant Program, our associates are proud to support the needs of their communities by providing grants to local organizations.
Whole Food Community Giving
As a company, we are quite unique. Our stores are not cookie cutter big box-type stores with directives from “corporate” about how to run the business. Each of our stores has a lot of latitude in deciding the best way to operate that individual store to meet the needs of the local community.
The Captain Planet Foundation primarily makes grants to U.S.-based schools and organizations with an annual operating budget of less than $3 million.
Grants are awarded to free and charitable clinics, school-based health centers and community health centers nationwide to increase access to care and improve health outcomes for people of all ages. Please note: Application for a CVS Health Foundation Grant is by invitation only.
DC Department of Health
The Mission of the DC Department of Health (DC DOH) is to promote and protect the health, safety and quality of life of residents, visitors and those doing business in the District of Columbia. DC DOH’s responsibilities include identifying health risks; educating the public; preventing and controlling diseases, injuries and exposure to environmental hazards; promoting effective community collaborations; and optimizing equitable access to community resources.
Fiskars Project Orange Thumb
Project Orange Thumb is a community garden grant program that provides tools and resources to help communities reach their goals for collaboration, neighborhood beautification, and healthy, sustainable food sources.
Garden ABCs
GardenABCs is here to help with books for children and all the resources you need to support school, community or home garden projects
Grants.gov
Halcyon Incubator
The Halcyon Incubator provides intrepid social entrepreneurs with an 18-month fellowship, comprised of a five month residency, 12 months of rent-free workspace, $10,000 stipend during the Residency Phase, complimentary strategic, legal and PR support, mentorship, access to a network of potential funders from all sectors, and more.
Honda Foundation
The American Honda Foundation engages in grant making that reflects the basic tenets, beliefs and philosophies of Honda companies, which are characterized by the following qualities: imaginative, creative, youthful, forward-thinking, scientific, humanistic and innovative. We support youth education with a specific focus on the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects in addition to the environment.
IOBY
the crowd-resourcing platform that helps bring your great ideas to life, block by block. ioby supports citizen-led, neighbor-funded projects. On ioby, you can raise tax-deductible donations, recruit local volunteers and share ideas with a likeminded community.
Public Lands Every Day
Sam’s Club Grant Program
At the local level, Sam’s Club facilities are encouraged to support nonprofits or other causes important to their community, provided they fall within one of the Walmart Foundation’s focus areas: Opportunity, Sustainability and Community. Other local areas of focus may include Education and Youth Success.
The Campus Kitchens Project
We partner with high schools, colleges and universities to share on-campus kitchen space, recover food from cafeterias and engage students as volunteers who prepare and deliver meals to the community.
The Campus Kitchens Project - Specific Information on Grants & Funding
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
We are a $3.6 billion private, national foundation that works to expand opportunities in America’s cities through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services and community development.
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
The Lunchbox School Grants
Walmart Community Giving
Through the Community Grant Program, our associates are proud to support the needs of their communities by providing grants to local organizations.
Whole Food Community Giving
As a company, we are quite unique. Our stores are not cookie cutter big box-type stores with directives from “corporate” about how to run the business. Each of our stores has a lot of latitude in deciding the best way to operate that individual store to meet the needs of the local community.
The Mission of the DC Department of Health (DC DOH) is to promote and protect the health, safety and quality of life of residents, visitors and those doing business in the District of Columbia. DC DOH’s responsibilities include identifying health risks; educating the public; preventing and controlling diseases, injuries and exposure to environmental hazards; promoting effective community collaborations; and optimizing equitable access to community resources.
Project Orange Thumb is a community garden grant program that provides tools and resources to help communities reach their goals for collaboration, neighborhood beautification, and healthy, sustainable food sources.
Garden ABCs
GardenABCs is here to help with books for children and all the resources you need to support school, community or home garden projects
Grants.gov
Halcyon Incubator
The Halcyon Incubator provides intrepid social entrepreneurs with an 18-month fellowship, comprised of a five month residency, 12 months of rent-free workspace, $10,000 stipend during the Residency Phase, complimentary strategic, legal and PR support, mentorship, access to a network of potential funders from all sectors, and more.
Honda Foundation
The American Honda Foundation engages in grant making that reflects the basic tenets, beliefs and philosophies of Honda companies, which are characterized by the following qualities: imaginative, creative, youthful, forward-thinking, scientific, humanistic and innovative. We support youth education with a specific focus on the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects in addition to the environment.
IOBY
the crowd-resourcing platform that helps bring your great ideas to life, block by block. ioby supports citizen-led, neighbor-funded projects. On ioby, you can raise tax-deductible donations, recruit local volunteers and share ideas with a likeminded community.
Public Lands Every Day
Sam’s Club Grant Program
At the local level, Sam’s Club facilities are encouraged to support nonprofits or other causes important to their community, provided they fall within one of the Walmart Foundation’s focus areas: Opportunity, Sustainability and Community. Other local areas of focus may include Education and Youth Success.
The Campus Kitchens Project
We partner with high schools, colleges and universities to share on-campus kitchen space, recover food from cafeterias and engage students as volunteers who prepare and deliver meals to the community.
The Campus Kitchens Project - Specific Information on Grants & Funding
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
We are a $3.6 billion private, national foundation that works to expand opportunities in America’s cities through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services and community development.
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
The Lunchbox School Grants
Walmart Community Giving
Through the Community Grant Program, our associates are proud to support the needs of their communities by providing grants to local organizations.
Whole Food Community Giving
As a company, we are quite unique. Our stores are not cookie cutter big box-type stores with directives from “corporate” about how to run the business. Each of our stores has a lot of latitude in deciding the best way to operate that individual store to meet the needs of the local community.
GardenABCs is here to help with books for children and all the resources you need to support school, community or home garden projects
Halcyon Incubator
The Halcyon Incubator provides intrepid social entrepreneurs with an 18-month fellowship, comprised of a five month residency, 12 months of rent-free workspace, $10,000 stipend during the Residency Phase, complimentary strategic, legal and PR support, mentorship, access to a network of potential funders from all sectors, and more.
Honda Foundation
The American Honda Foundation engages in grant making that reflects the basic tenets, beliefs and philosophies of Honda companies, which are characterized by the following qualities: imaginative, creative, youthful, forward-thinking, scientific, humanistic and innovative. We support youth education with a specific focus on the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects in addition to the environment.
IOBY
the crowd-resourcing platform that helps bring your great ideas to life, block by block. ioby supports citizen-led, neighbor-funded projects. On ioby, you can raise tax-deductible donations, recruit local volunteers and share ideas with a likeminded community.
Public Lands Every Day
Sam’s Club Grant Program
At the local level, Sam’s Club facilities are encouraged to support nonprofits or other causes important to their community, provided they fall within one of the Walmart Foundation’s focus areas: Opportunity, Sustainability and Community. Other local areas of focus may include Education and Youth Success.
The Campus Kitchens Project
We partner with high schools, colleges and universities to share on-campus kitchen space, recover food from cafeterias and engage students as volunteers who prepare and deliver meals to the community.
The Campus Kitchens Project - Specific Information on Grants & Funding
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
We are a $3.6 billion private, national foundation that works to expand opportunities in America’s cities through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services and community development.
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
The Lunchbox School Grants
Walmart Community Giving
Through the Community Grant Program, our associates are proud to support the needs of their communities by providing grants to local organizations.
Whole Food Community Giving
As a company, we are quite unique. Our stores are not cookie cutter big box-type stores with directives from “corporate” about how to run the business. Each of our stores has a lot of latitude in deciding the best way to operate that individual store to meet the needs of the local community.
The Halcyon Incubator provides intrepid social entrepreneurs with an 18-month fellowship, comprised of a five month residency, 12 months of rent-free workspace, $10,000 stipend during the Residency Phase, complimentary strategic, legal and PR support, mentorship, access to a network of potential funders from all sectors, and more.
The American Honda Foundation engages in grant making that reflects the basic tenets, beliefs and philosophies of Honda companies, which are characterized by the following qualities: imaginative, creative, youthful, forward-thinking, scientific, humanistic and innovative. We support youth education with a specific focus on the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects in addition to the environment.
IOBY
the crowd-resourcing platform that helps bring your great ideas to life, block by block. ioby supports citizen-led, neighbor-funded projects. On ioby, you can raise tax-deductible donations, recruit local volunteers and share ideas with a likeminded community.
Public Lands Every Day
Sam’s Club Grant Program
At the local level, Sam’s Club facilities are encouraged to support nonprofits or other causes important to their community, provided they fall within one of the Walmart Foundation’s focus areas: Opportunity, Sustainability and Community. Other local areas of focus may include Education and Youth Success.
The Campus Kitchens Project
We partner with high schools, colleges and universities to share on-campus kitchen space, recover food from cafeterias and engage students as volunteers who prepare and deliver meals to the community.
The Campus Kitchens Project - Specific Information on Grants & Funding
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
We are a $3.6 billion private, national foundation that works to expand opportunities in America’s cities through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services and community development.
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
The Lunchbox School Grants
Walmart Community Giving
Through the Community Grant Program, our associates are proud to support the needs of their communities by providing grants to local organizations.
Whole Food Community Giving
As a company, we are quite unique. Our stores are not cookie cutter big box-type stores with directives from “corporate” about how to run the business. Each of our stores has a lot of latitude in deciding the best way to operate that individual store to meet the needs of the local community.
the crowd-resourcing platform that helps bring your great ideas to life, block by block. ioby supports citizen-led, neighbor-funded projects. On ioby, you can raise tax-deductible donations, recruit local volunteers and share ideas with a likeminded community.
Sam’s Club Grant Program
At the local level, Sam’s Club facilities are encouraged to support nonprofits or other causes important to their community, provided they fall within one of the Walmart Foundation’s focus areas: Opportunity, Sustainability and Community. Other local areas of focus may include Education and Youth Success.
The Campus Kitchens Project
We partner with high schools, colleges and universities to share on-campus kitchen space, recover food from cafeterias and engage students as volunteers who prepare and deliver meals to the community.
The Campus Kitchens Project - Specific Information on Grants & Funding
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
We are a $3.6 billion private, national foundation that works to expand opportunities in America’s cities through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services and community development.
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
The Lunchbox School Grants
Walmart Community Giving
Through the Community Grant Program, our associates are proud to support the needs of their communities by providing grants to local organizations.
Whole Food Community Giving
As a company, we are quite unique. Our stores are not cookie cutter big box-type stores with directives from “corporate” about how to run the business. Each of our stores has a lot of latitude in deciding the best way to operate that individual store to meet the needs of the local community.
At the local level, Sam’s Club facilities are encouraged to support nonprofits or other causes important to their community, provided they fall within one of the Walmart Foundation’s focus areas: Opportunity, Sustainability and Community. Other local areas of focus may include Education and Youth Success.
We partner with high schools, colleges and universities to share on-campus kitchen space, recover food from cafeterias and engage students as volunteers who prepare and deliver meals to the community.
The Campus Kitchens Project - Specific Information on Grants & Funding
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
We are a $3.6 billion private, national foundation that works to expand opportunities in America’s cities through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services and community development.
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
The Lunchbox School Grants
Walmart Community Giving
Through the Community Grant Program, our associates are proud to support the needs of their communities by providing grants to local organizations.
Whole Food Community Giving
As a company, we are quite unique. Our stores are not cookie cutter big box-type stores with directives from “corporate” about how to run the business. Each of our stores has a lot of latitude in deciding the best way to operate that individual store to meet the needs of the local community.
We are a $3.6 billion private, national foundation that works to expand opportunities in America’s cities through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services and community development.
The Kresge Foundation Grants and Social Investments
Walmart Community Giving
Through the Community Grant Program, our associates are proud to support the needs of their communities by providing grants to local organizations.
Whole Food Community Giving
As a company, we are quite unique. Our stores are not cookie cutter big box-type stores with directives from “corporate” about how to run the business. Each of our stores has a lot of latitude in deciding the best way to operate that individual store to meet the needs of the local community.
Through the Community Grant Program, our associates are proud to support the needs of their communities by providing grants to local organizations.
As a company, we are quite unique. Our stores are not cookie cutter big box-type stores with directives from “corporate” about how to run the business. Each of our stores has a lot of latitude in deciding the best way to operate that individual store to meet the needs of the local community.
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