The grant will award $150,000 in grant funding to nonprofit organizations making a difference in their communities.
AUSTIN, Texas — The City of Austin is launching a new grant program.
The Food and Climate Equity Grants, through the City of Austin’s Office of Sustainability, will award grants matched to $150,000 to nonprofit organizations making a difference in the local community.
“Support projects in our communities that are working towards community resilience, climate justice and food justice,” said Amanda Roehrich, food policy officer for the Office of Sustainability.
Nonprofits can apply until July 18. Grants will be paid out starting in September.
Ali Vinograd runs a nonprofit in Austin called Our Shared Kitchen, which prepares 30,000 meals every year.
Vinograd hopes he will be part of that funding.
“We prepare hot, nutritious meals for people experiencing homelessness and food insecurity in Austin,” Vinograd says. “Every day, my team and I go out and we hear people say, ‘I’m hungry.’ We don’t know who’s in what situation, but it doesn’t matter. Everyone needs to eat, and everyone has a right to a hot, healthy meal.”
There is great need in Travis County, with 15% of the population, or more than 180,000 people, facing food insecurity, according to city data.
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