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Funding Hunger Free Communities

S. Duke StorenUSDA Food and Nutrition Service

February 2012

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Before the Funding …

• Community Needs Assessment• Public – Private Collaborative

• Service Providers• Elected Officials • Executive Branch Leadership • Advocates• Foundations• Private Sector Companies• Volunteer Organizations

• Plan, Implement, Measure

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The Funding Puzzle

Meals

Household Resources

Human Capital

Admin. Expenses

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Strategy

Help families maximize their own resources Job training (One Stops, SNAP E&T) Benefit programs (UI, TANF, GA, LIHEAP) Nutrition programs (SNAP, WIC)

Maximize federal nutrition programs Fund gaps with private funding sources

Grant writer, VISTAs (raise funds) Measure impact to increase success in private funding

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Household Resources

SNAP Benefits 46 million participants; 72% participation rate; $134 average per

person benefit; particularly low participation among seniors and Latinos

WIC Food Package (http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/benefitsandservices/foodpkgallowances.HTM)

Food packages (The Emergency Food Assistance Program, Commodity Supplemental Food Program, Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations)

Other benefit programs (UI, LIHEAP, GA)

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Meal Reimbursement School Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks, and Dinner (NSLP,

SBP, CACFP) Meals in child care, adult day care, shelter (CACFP) Meals at after-school programs and weekend

programs (CACFP) Summer Meals for Kids (NSLP, SFSP)

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Human Capital Meal reimbursement for federal programs includes administrative costs Federal reimbursement for SNAP outreach and application assistance

activities National Service Programs (VISTA, AmeriCorps, Senior Corps) Hunger Free Community Grants (and other federal grants)

Hunger Free Community Grants in the President’s 2013 Budget ($2.5 million) Foundation and other private funding

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Administrative Expenses Foundation and other private funding Federal Grant and Loan Programs

Hunger Free Communities Grants ($2.5 million requested in the President’s budget)

School Equipment Grants ($35 million requested in the President’s budget) USDA Rural Development Community Facilities Grant Program (

http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rhs/cf/brief_cp_grant.htm) USDA Community Food Project Grants (

http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/cfp/cfp.html) SNAP

50 percent federal reimbursement for admin. expenditures (requires agreement with State agency and non-federal expenditures)

Grants – Access, other periodic grants

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Get Involved (http://www.fns.usda.gov/outreach/getinvolved/)

Funding Information Outreach Materials Toolkits Program Data Food and Nutrition Assistance Outreach Coalition Program Information Training Library