Food Fit Funding!

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Author: Hayley Green

Posted: December 11, 2017

Categories: GoodFoodBites / Opportunities

Community Food Centers Canada builds health, belonging and social justice in low-income communities across Canada with the power of food. They build vibrant, financially stable Community food centers that offer high impact food programs in welcoming community spaces to bring people together to grow, cook, share and advocate for good food! The Center had a deadline out for their Food Fit funding! Check out the details below on the grant. All information is taken directly from their website.

FoodFit is a 12-week program for low-income community members who experience barriers around healthy eating and physical activity but who are motivated to make lasting changes to their health. The program combines fun, hands-on cooking sessions and food-based activities with take-home recipes, easy-to-understand nutrition information, group exercise, shared meals, self-directed individual and group goal-setting, and reflection and feedback loops that monitor and reinforce individual and group progress. The program also collects biometric indicators at the start and end of the program, and provides pedometers so participants can monitor daily steps. FoodFit respects the limits of people’s circumstances and aims to give participants simple, useful tools to navigate an increasingly complex food environment.

FoodFit was developed with input from a medical doctor, nutritionists, Community Food Centres Canada staff, and community members. It’s offered by several Canadian organizations, including The Local Community Food Centre in Stratford, The Table Community Food Centre in Perth, Interior Community Services in Kamloops, BC, and Hillhurst Sunnyside Community

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Calgary, AB.

Find out more about the significant impacts of FoodFit: Read Peggy’s Story and Gord and Tanya’s Story

Details of the 2018 grant

There are two types of FoodFit programs:

FoodFit for adults
FoodFit for youth (ages 13 to 19).
Grant applications for either program are being accepted.

Successful grant recipients receive funding to staff, implement, and evaluate eight sessions of FoodFit programming plus alumni drop-in sessions over the span of two years.

To date, Community Food Centres Canada has distributed 15 FoodFit grants to partner organizations across the country. FoodFit grants have been made available through generous funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Multi-sectoral Partnership Grants Program and matching funds from other sources.

2018 application information

Eligibility: Registered Canadian charities
Number of grants available: 4
Term of grant: 2 years
Amount of each grant: $40,000 ($25,000 to be spent in year 1, $15,000 to be spent in year 2)
Application deadline: Thursday, December 21, 2017 @ 11:59 p.m.

For more details about the grant and application requirements, please read the FoodFit Grant Guidelines. To apply, download and complete the Grant Application Package.

Questions? Contact Alissa Vieth, Health Promotion Manager, Community Food Centres Canada, at alissa@cfccanada.ca or 416-531-8826 ext. 265.