Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development Center Grant Guidelines

Goals and Objectives of Wallace HUFED Center

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The Wallace HUFED Center will address the mandate set forth by US Congress and USDA to create and implement replicable models of a green, healthy, fair and affordable food system that are proven to be economically, socially and environmentally viable for all stakeholders, including those who live in historically excluded and traditionally underserved communities.

GOALS: The specific goals of the Wallace HUFED Center are to:

1. Develop more socially and economically equitable access to high quality, affordable, and fresh foods in communities with healthy food deficits;
2. Support small- and mid-sized producer incomes and economic sustainability;
3. Promote and support market-based enterprises with the best chance for long-term success in addressing the structural deficits in the food distribution system; and
4. Determine successful and less-successful project strategies so as to enable effective adaptation or replication in similar communities nationwide.

OBJECTIVES: Our main objectives center on grantmaking and technical assistance activities that address four major supply and retail bottlenecks, which limit low income consumer access to affordable healthy food:

1. Reduce the supply chain bottleneck in the aggregation and processing of healthy, and locally produced food (whether fresh or processed in some way).
2. Increase the flow of healthy, fresh, and local food being distributed by resellers, wholesalers, and private marketing channels (e.g. supermarket warehouses; school food service providers).
3. Increase the number of retail sites (conventional or alternative, niche or other innovative approaches to retail) with healthy food available in underserved areas.
4. Increase the availability of healthy food options within existing retail sites.

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