Food and Hunger, Inactive Funding

The funding programs listed below are not currently accepting applications. Programs that are inactive may be offered again in the future.

2008 Hunger Champions
This program honors local food stamp offices that provide exemplary service in assisting eligible clients to obtain food stamp benefits.

2009 Fiskars' Project Orange Thumb
Funding for gardens and/or gardening projects geared toward community involvement, neighborhood beautification, sustainable agriculture, and/or horticultural education.

2009 Healthy Sprouts Awards
These awards support school garden programs that use the garden to teach about nutrition and the issue of hunger in the United States.

2009 SNAP Participation Program (Formerly Food Stamp Program)
Grant funding may be used to support projects that develop and implement simple food stamp application and eligibility determination systems, or measures to improve access to food stamp benefits.

Active Living Research/Healthy Eating Research Rapid-Response Grants
Funding to support research to identify promising policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity, promoting healthy eating and preventing obesity.

Communities Creating Healthy Environments
Funding to prevent childhood obesity by increasing access to healthy foods and safe places to play in communities of color.

Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program
Grants to enhance community food projects that meet a variety of needs for low-income people and their communities.

ConAgra Foods Foundation
The Foundation's major commitment is fighting child hunger and to improve the quality of life in communities where ConAgra Foods employees work and live.

Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP)
Grants to increase domestic consumption of agricultural commodities by expanding direct producer-to-consumer market opportunities.

Fiscal Year 2008 Food Stamp Outreach Grant
Grants to to implement and learn more about effective strategies to inform and educate potentially eligible low income seniors and Hispanic persons, who are not currently participating in the Food Stamp Program (FSP).

Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program (FANRP), Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program
Funding for research and evaluation studies that have direct implications for USDA's food and nutrition assistance programs.

Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) Nutrition Education Grant
Provides commodity foods to low-income households living on Indian reservations, and to American Indian households residing in approved areas near reservations or in Oklahoma.

Great American Bake Sale Grant
Grants program that helps ensure that low-income children receive nutritious food during critical times when they are out of school and particularly vulnerable to hunger.

Great American Dine Out Grants Program
Grants to organizations seeking to increase access to public and private initiatives that provide food to children and their families.

Harry Chapin Self-Reliance Awards
Awards to community-based organizations judged outstanding for their innovative, creative approaches to fighting hunger and poverty in the U.S.

Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity (Round 4)
The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among low-income and racial/ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity.

My Hometown Helper Grant Program
Grants for community projects including lights or bleachers for baseball, soccer or football fields; Books for school, library, or literacy programs; Playground equipment; Red Cross health and safety programs; Swimming and lifeguard training and more.

Presbyterian Hunger Program
The Presbyterian Hunger Program provides grants in the five areas: 1) Direct Food Relief; 2) Development Assistance; 3) Influencing Public Policy; 4) Life-style Integrity; and 5) Education and Interpretation.

Quaker Oats Go Grants
Grant program to support people working to combat hunger at the community level.

Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics (RIDGE) Program
Grants to stimulate new and innovative research on food assistance and nutrition issues and to broaden the participation of social science scholars in these issues.

Ronald McDonald House Charities Grant Program
Grants to organizations that help children read, provide nutritious after-school meals, offer life-changing surgeries, or help prevent life-threatening disease.

STOP Hunger Scholarships
Scholarships to recognize and reward the great steps students are taking to fight hunger in our communities across the United States.

Sustainable Community Innovation Grants Program
Funds projects that work to strengthen both agriculture and Southern communities by building explicit linkages between sustainable agriculture and rural community development.

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