Grant Program Regional Food Systems

To host the NASDA annual meeting in New Hampshire, to discuss farm and food issues and decide on priorities for the coming year.

To strengthen capacity within emerging regional food systems by assisting them with business planning and access to financing that enables scaling up to win contracts with institutional and other larger buyers.

To provide administrative support for the Connecticut Food Policy Council.

To lend its finance and business development expertise to farm and food entrepreneurs, investors, and intermediaries in New Hampshire and across New England, with special emphasis on building farm-to-institution channels.

To create an open source data system that is useful to a wide range of food system stakeholders while building human and organizational capacity to actively use, contribute to, and shape it.

To strategically apply tools and tactics to increase the amount of local food served at the regions more than 370 two- and four-year colleges and universities.

To increase institutional sales and participate in a new joint project with Wholesome Wave aimed to significantly increase sales from New England farmers to a national broadline distributor.

To develop and launch an open-source food system database.

To provide key administrative and coordinating functions for the New Hampshire food strategy design and planning teams, including: facilitating communication among state and regional food planning networks; planning, convening, and facilitating meetings to advance network goals; researching, analyzing, and distributing…

To provide Vermont food entrepreneurs with timely access to critical equipment and creative financing.