Key Points
- The Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) provides loans, grants, and technical assistance resources to improve and support access to fresh, healthy, affordable food in urban and rural underserved communities. Funds can be used to:
- Support new or existing partnerships, such as state or local food funds or financing programs
- Explore, establish, or grow a healthy food financing fund for underserved communities
- Increase internal and external capacity building
- Identify and improve access to seed capital
- HFFI is a public-private partnership administered on behalf of USDA Rural Development by Reinvestment Fund — a Community Development Financial Institution.
FIM Opportunities
Access to fresh, healthy, affordable food is a critical component of Food Is Medicine Iniatives in urban and rural underserved communities.
