{"id":174463,"date":"2023-03-16T14:54:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T21:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/?p=174463"},"modified":"2023-03-16T14:54:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T21:54:47","slug":"grant-funding-available-for-small-food-related-businesses-in-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/?p=174463","title":{"rendered":"Grant Funding Available for Small, Food-Related Businesses in Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Phoenix-and-Local-Food-Campaign.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-173836\" src=\"http:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Phoenix-and-Local-Food-Campaign-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The City of Phoenix is offering grants to small, food-related businesses that have been negatively impacted by COVID-19 or its negative economic impacts. Applications are now open for the <a href=\"https:\/\/action.phoenix.gov\/c1.pl?15e50a179bc2230b05e34491d9bc36f773f86f74386f3f5e2085bcecf1a307d2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food Systems Transformation Grant<\/a>, which is part of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)-funded Phoenix Resilient Food System Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Environmental Programs has $800,000 available in grant funding to distribute to small businesses located within Phoenix city limits. Eligible small businesses include those who are a part of the City\u2019s food system and play a role in the consumption, distribution, growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, marketing or the disposal of food and food-related items.<\/p>\n<p>Grants must be used to create a more resilient, sustainable, equitable, healthy, and thriving system. Examples of projects that help transform the local food system include but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advancing justice, equity, and fairness within the local food system.<\/li>\n<li>Promoting efforts to reduce the impact of the local food system on our changing climate (mitigation).<\/li>\n<li>Strengthening the resiliency of the local food system in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, various shocks, and disruptions (adaptation).<\/li>\n<li>Enhancing food security, accessibility, affordability, and healthy eating.<\/li>\n<li>Adopting new and\/or expanding existing sustainable and innovative urban food production, distribution, aggregation, processing, and recycling practices.<\/li>\n<li>Developing product prototypes.<\/li>\n<li>Creating new, high-quality jobs to implement grant-funded projects.<\/li>\n<li>Improving local market options.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Small businesses are eligible to receive between $5,000 and $99,000 in grants and must use funds to complete all proposed projects within 12 months. Grant applications are due no later than March 31. Apply <a href=\"https:\/\/action.phoenix.gov\/c1.pl?15e50a179bc2230b05e34491d9bc36f773f86f74386f3f5e2085bcecf1a307d2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to view the full details and eligibility requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Phoenix is offering grants to small, food-related businesses that have been negatively impacted by COVID-19 or its negative economic impacts. Applications are now open for the Food Systems Transformation Grant, which is part of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)-funded Phoenix Resilient Food System Initiative. The Office of Environmental Programs has $800,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-174463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-finance","tag-hot-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}