Grants & Funding Opportunties
If you have a grant to share with the network, please join the relevant listservs and share those opportunities on those lists. For collaborative grant proposal development, please work with your working group. Details on how to join OCFSN listservs can be found - https://ocfsn.org/connected
Due April 26: Brighter Future Fund Emergency Resilience Grants from American Farmland Trust. Apply now.
Northwest and Rocky Mountain Regional Food Business Center Business Builder Grants:
Connecting & Scaling Food Entrepreneurs Business Builder Designed to expand the capacity of facilities that incubate and support multiple small, value-added food businesses by providing those businesses with access to commercial kitchen space, business development support, and other services, for example advanced food manufacturing services. Application deadline: April 1, 2025 (11:59pm Mountain time)
Open Year Round: RD’s Community Facilities Direct Loan & Grant Program funds many facility types including local food systems such as community gardens, food pantries, community kitchens, food banks, food hubs or greenhouses. Limited to areas with no more than 20,000 residents according to the latest U.S. Census data.
Due May 12: 2025 Climate Resilient Farmers Markets Grant. These one-year grants (July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026) are open to all Farmers Markets in Oregon with less than 80 vendors on their smallest market day. Markets that received a Climate Resilient Farmers Market Grant in 2024 are not eligible to apply. more here.
Due May 30 at Noon: Health Share of Oregon Community Capacity-Building Funding (CCBF). CCBF is an opportunity by the Oregon Health Authority to support Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs) to invest in community-based organizations (CBOs) who are interested in providing HRSN benefits. These grants will allow qualifying CBOs to build the workforce and infrastructure needed to become a HRSN provider. Learn more here.
Due May 27, 2025: Portland Clean Energy Fund (PCEF)’s 2025 Community Grants cycle is open! This fourth round of funding is strictly allocated for community-led projects and will distribute up to $67 million in grants. Learn more here.
The Soil Health Opportunities & Tools Fund (SHOT Fund) EQIP Bridge Loan program provides landowners and farmers with flexible funding to cover the upfront costs of installing EQIP practices. Designed specifically for recipients of NRCS EQIP awards, our bridge loans have no fees, no penalties, and no interest. Learn more here.
EQIP Bridge Loan ProgramLearn more about Federal Farm Bill Programs & Grants.
