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CDF expands work with two USDA grants
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CDF was awarded two grants from USDA to support the Foundation's work coordinating the Home Care Cooperative Initiative. The grants also include funding to establish a network between Northeast food cooperatives and Southeast farmers, and to facilitate discussions on the use of cooperatives to enhance Native American communities.
The $200,000 Rural Cooperative Development Grant (RCDG) includes funds for projects to:
Host the 2022 National Home Care Cooperative Conference;
Provide education, outreach and coordination of home care development steering committee activities;
Launch a shared service cooperative for home care cooperatives;
Provide support for sound governance and better business performance technical assistance for rural food cooperatives; and
Conduct a home care benchmarking survey
The $175,000 Socially Disadvantaged Groups Grant (SDGG) includes funds for projects to:
Provide technical assistance to rural home care cooperatives;
Coordinate discussions with cooperative developers and the Native American agricultural community on cooperative development to enhance food systems in Indian Country;
Develop the cooperative home care market in Puerto Rico based on research funded in 2020; and
Explore the potential for the wholesale distribution of products grown by primarily Black farmers in the Southeast U.S. through retail grocery cooperatives in the Northeast U.S.