Healthy Food for All
Healthy Food for All (HFA) is a three-year initiative funded by The San Francisco Foundation (TSFF), Convergence Parntership, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, and American Farmland Trust.
The goal of HFA is to expand healthy food access in the Bayview and Excelsior neighborhoods in San Francisco through community leadership development, activating public land for food cultivation, implementing food policy directives, and leveraging public-private partnerships. HFA aims to improve food access, encourage economic opportunity, and serve as a replicable model.
The initiative is broken up into three phases:
- Phase 1: Six month planning process
The goals of the planning process is to identify and engage dynamic community leaders; map existing urban agriculture, food systems, and food justice projects in the targeted neighborhoods; develop criteria for an ongoing urban agriculture leadership cohort; identifying the needs for a local food system financing strategy, and develop a strategy to build the infrastructure to produce local food and get it to consumers.
- Phase 2: Implementation process
Taking advantage of the capacity identified in year one, the initiative will fund community organizations representing the interests of low-income people and communities of color to participate in the design and implementation of two pilot urban agriculture sites in San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point and Excelsior communities.
- Phase 3: Policy Impact
During the third phase, the initiative will build leadership for policy change to increase access to healthy food for low-income people and communities of color. The initiative will support a cohort of community leaders and organizations from the Bayview Hunters Point and Excelsior neighborhoods to engage in shaping citywide and regional food policy.
Eligible Organizations
We will invite a limited number of organizations to apply for these funds based on the services they provide. This is an invitation-only application.
How to Apply
Please note that is not an open call for applications. Only invited organizations may apply. Grant funds will be awarded on a competitive basis to invited organizations. In order to be considered for funding, invited organizations must submit a full grant application and all of the requested materials through The San Francisco Foundation’s online grant application system, Grantee Center.
Contact
For more information regarding the Healthy Food for All Initiative, please contact Becky Weinberg, Program Assistant for Environment, at bweinberg@sff.org or 415.733.8524.