Assistance program
Healthy Food Financing Initiative
$175.5 Million committed in FY2018–FY2025
- Agency
- Rural Business Cooperative Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 10.872
- What it does
- The Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) is an inter-Department initiative that is carried out by the U.S. Treasury through its CDFI fund, Health and Human Services’ Community Economic Development Program, and USDA’s Rural Development. The purpose of the program is to improve access to affordable, healthy foods in urban and rural areas, particularly those areas composed predominantly of lower income neighborhoods and communities. RD provides financial assistance to a National Fund Manager, who administers a grant program and provides technical assistance.
- Who benefits
- Beneficiaries may be profit organizations (including corporations, limited liability companies, sole proprietors, public benefit corporations) and nonprofit organizations (including institutions of higher education; state and local governments and governmental agencies, authorities, and food policy councils; tribal governments and tribal governmental agencies, authorities, and food policy councils) and partnerships.
- Who applies
- An applicant must be a Community Development Financial Institutions (CFDI) certified by the U.S. Department of the Treasury Department CDFI Fund. The applicant must have been in existence as of February 7, 2014 and still be in existence at the time of application.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 113-79; 7 U.S.C. § 6953
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- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments