Webinar New COVID-19 Relief Funding Available: Pa. Fresh Food Financing Initiative

During this webinar, we’ll review a new grant opportunity for businesses, nonprofit, or cooperative entities including food hubs, mobile markets, co-ops, farmers markets, on-farm markets, urban farms, community gardens, grocery stores, corner stores, convenience stores, neighborhood stores, bodegas, and food aggregation and processing centers that serve direct-to-consumer retail outlets.

The Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative (FFFI) is a statewide public-private financing program that invests in new or expanding grocery stores and other healthy food retail outlets in communities throughout Pennsylvania. The state is introducing a new and complementary grant program to FFFI for retailers that have been impacted by COVID-19 to help ensure communities can maintain access to healthy food during the pandemic.

In recognition of the disproportionate impacts of both COVID-19 and food apartheid on communities made up of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), and especially Black and African American communities, prioritization will be given to those businesses that are owned by and serve low-income BIPOC communities.