Local Food Infrastructure Fund: Community Support Stream: 1. What this program offers

1. What this program offers

The Local Food Infrastructure Fund: Community Support Stream supports not-for-profit organizations to acquire and distribute food to Canadians facing food insecurity.

As announced by the Government of Canada, $20 million is being provided to support food banks and other not-for-profit national, regional, and local organizations in delivering nutritious food to Canadians who are most at risk of food insecurity.

Program objectives

Through the further distribution of funds by a limited number of not-for-profit organizations to approved community-based organizations, the program will:

• support community-based organizations to acquire and distribute food to Canadians most at risk of food insecurity.

Funding

Funding will be provided to a limited number of not-for-profit organizations ("initial recipients") with knowledge of, experience with, and access to an established network of food banks and other community-based organizations.

The maximum Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) contribution toward a project will normally not exceed $15,000,000. If you apply for funding under $3,000,000, after ineligible costs have been removed, your application will not be considered for funding.

Cost-sharing

AAFC will provide up to 100% in funding toward eligible project costs.

Further distribution of funds

The program will provide contributions to eligible initial recipients who will further distribute funds to one or more ultimate recipients. Ultimate recipients and initiatives to be funded will be selected by initial recipients based on a clear, transparent, and open decision-making process.

An initial recipient:

• is a not-for-profit organization that receives contribution funding from AAFC and further distributes that funding to ultimate recipients
• will have a relationship with AAFC and with the ultimate recipients
• will have independence in how they further distribute contributions
• will carry out a transparent, and open decision-making process, which includes the selection of ultimate recipients and projects or activities to be funded

An ultimate recipient:

• is a not-for-profit community-based organization or an Indigenous community, association or government that receives funding from an initial recipient
• will have a relationship with the initial recipient
• will not have a relationship with AAFC