Need help getting grants? New grant support NOW available.

Jazmyn Rudolph and Jay Eury, Pittsburgh Food Policy Council grant consultants, are ready to start providing assistance! Assistance may look like coaching, writing, advising, researching opportunities, connecting to funders, proposal submission, and/or reporting. Support will be prioritized to expand equitable investment in our food system. Learn more below.

Organizations prioritized for grant writing support will be those that:

● Have programs and activities that work to restore communities most impacted by food

insecurity–food apartheid communities.

● Have leadership that is representative of the community they serve.

● Engaged with their community to understand strengths, challenges and priorities and are

working to be responsive to the community.

● Willing to identify opportunities to make a measurable impact with their programs.

● Has established (or open to establishing) dignified or value aligned partnerships

(collaborations) within the community and local food system.

● Don’t currently have grant writers and/or development staff.

● Led by people who are Black, African American, and/or of African descent; Immigrants,

Indigenous, and/or People of Color.

● Led by people who directly experience the disparate and unjust outcomes of power

structures, or by those whose work is deeply informed by directly affected people.

● Are located in Allegheny County, PA.

Upcoming potential grant deadlines include:

● Foundation-Directed grants from the Pittsburgh Foundation

○ Application deadline February 26, 2024

● Community Food Solutions mini-grants the United Way of Southwestern PA

○ Application deadline February 29, 2024

● Community Garden Sustainability fund from Grow Pittsburgh

○ Application deadline March 15, 2024

If you would like assistance with the grants above, or are looking at other grants and want to

discuss those, contact: Jazmyn@PittsburghFoodPolicy.org and Jay@PittsburghFoodPolicy.org.