 
Community Food and Nutrition Program (CFN)
Purposes
The Community Food and Nutrition Program is designed to improve the health and nutrition status of low-income people by increasing and improving access to, or information about, healthy, nutritious foods. The program seeks to build community food assistance capacity, rather than deliver services. Community Food and Nutrition funds are provided to:
- Coordinate private and public food assistance resources to better serve the food and nutrition needs of low-income populations;
- Assist low-income communities in identifying potential sponsors of child nutrition programs and to initiate such programs in underserved or unserved areas; and
- Develop innovative approaches at the State and local level to meet the nutrition needs of low-income individuals, including displaced workers, elderly people, children, and the working poor.
How Funds May Be Used
Programs funded under this grant should:
- Be designed and intended to provide nutrition benefits, including those which incorporate the benefits of disease prevention, to a targeted low-income group of people;
- Provide outreach and public education to inform eligible low-income individuals and families of other nutritional services available to them under the various federally assisted programs;
- Carry out targeted communications and social marketing to improve dietary behavior and increase program participation among eligible low-income populations; and
- Consult with and/or inform local offices that administer other food programs such as W.I.C. and Food Stamps to ensure effective coordination and increase service effectiveness.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants are State and local governments, Indian tribes, and public and private non-profit agencies, including faith-based and community-based organizations, with a demonstrated ability to successfully develop and implement programs and activities similar to those described above. The Office of Community Services encourages Historically Black Colleges and Universities and minority institutions to submit applications.
Sponsoring Bureau: Office of Community Services
Fiscal Year 2005 Grants
The FY 2005 Program Announcement is expected in early
2005. An excellent way to learn more about this program is to
read the Fiscal Year 2004 program announcement.
FY 2004 Program Announcement:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/04-7609.htm
Anticipated amount of FY 2005 competition: $2,400,000
Anticipated number of awards: 48 to 50
Anticipated size of each award: Up to $50,000
Contact information
Catherine Rivers
Phone: 1-800-281-9519
E-mail: crivers@acf.hhs.gov