Feed our Future School Equipment Cost-Share Program
Feed Our Future (FOF) has a new opportunity to support a cost-share program for schools and school districts in Northeast Ohio. For over a decade, Feed Our Future has been working with schools to serve fresh, healthy, and local food through its farm to school initiative. This cost-share program allows FOF to support schools in purchasing items that will help them serve local foods. This cost-share program is intended to provide support to schools who have students with the greatest need, with a specific focus on schools that have high percentages of BIPOC students and/or economically disadvantaged students.
This pilot program is dedicated to investing $20,000 in to school kitchens in historically underinvested schools and school districts in the 2024-2025 school year. Defining BIPOC students: BIPOC is an acronym for Black, Indigenous, and people of color. Defining economically disadvantaged students: economically disadvantaged students are those who are eligible or reside in a household where a member is eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, and/or is a recipient or has a guardian who is a recipient of public assistance.
Applications for the 2024-2025 FOF School Equipment Cost-Share Program are currently being accepted. Individual school buildings can be reimbursed up to a maximum of $2,000. School districts can be reimbursed a maximum of $4,000.
