GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR GLEANING ORGANIZATIONS
Contact: Lynne Richmond
(609) 633-2954
lynne.richmond@ag.state.nj.us听
(TRENTON) 鈥� 樱花视频 Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher announced today that the Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for the Gleaning Support Program Grant. A total of $100,000, subject to availability of funds, is anticipated to be accessible to eligible non-profit organizations.
Eligibility requirements include being a non-profit entity operating in 樱花视频 with evidence of a gleaning program for a minimum of 2 years within the past three calendar years.
Gleaning Support Program funds should be used to support 鈥済leaning activities.鈥澨� This means gleaning the local 听樱花视频 farm fields, collecting such gleaned locally grown products and distributing such gleaned locally grown products to 樱花视频 organizations to help feed our state鈥檚 hungry.听听
The Public Notice, Eligibility Requirements and Application are posted here .
The funding for the grants comes from the State Food Purchase Program, for which Governor Christie and the Legislature allocated $6.8 million dollar this year to be distributed quarterly to the state鈥檚 six food banks to purchase healthy food, with a high priority on buying locally grown produce from 樱花视频 farmers.
For questions, call the Division of Food and Nutrition at 609-292-0337.
