Food Security Grants

• The applicant must be an incorporated non-profit organization or a registered charity with the Canada Revenue Agency.
• The organization must operate within the Archdiocese of Toronto.
• The organization must have offered food programming for more than one year.
• The proposal must respond to an identified target group’s existing or emerging food insecurity issues.
• The proposal must include an outcomes assessment approach, sustainability plan, and a reasonable budget.

Who is eligible?

• Incorporated non-profit organizations delivering food programming.
• Registered charities delivering food programming.

Who is not eligible

• Organizations that are not incorporated non-profits or registered charities.
• Organizations not operating within the Archdiocese of Toronto.
• Organizations that have offered food programming for one year or less.

Eligible expenses

• Food purchases.
• Costs to distribute food.
• Costs to increase access to nutritious and healthy food.

Ineligible Costs and Activities

Eligible geographic areas

• Archdiocese of Toronto

• Responsiveness to an identified target group’s existing or emerging food insecurity issues.
• Clarity of expected concrete benefits for the target group.
• Quality of the plan to assess whether project objectives have been achieved.
• Strength of the process to track outcomes and impact (including on partner agencies, if any).
• Quality of the sustainability strategy and reasonableness of the budget.

• Describe the target group and the food insecurity issue being addressed.
• Explain the expected concrete benefits for the target group.
• Provide a plan to assess achievement of project objectives.
• Explain how outcomes and impacts will be tracked (including partner agencies, if any).
• Outline a sustainability strategy or plan.
• Include a reasonable budget and a realistic requested amount.

• Send the proposal by email to the program’s designated inbox.

• The funding focuses on supporting individuals and families struggling to afford food and essential living expenses.
• Priority target groups mentioned include people with disabilities, young parents with complex needs, isolated and marginalized seniors, and people who are precariously housed or employed.