New Funding Opportunity Creating Healthy Communities Through Healthy Food With Older Adults as a Driving Force
For Release on Friday,
June 19, 2009
New Funding Opportunity
Creating Healthy Communities Through Healthy Food
With Older Adults as a Driving Force
The New York City Community
Experience Partnership* (CEP) – a collaboration between The Atlantic
Philanthropies, The New York Community Trust and United Neighborhood Houses of
New York (UNH) – announces a new funding initiative to utilize older adults as
a key resource to increase access to and use of fresh healthy food to improve
life in low income communities. The initiative expects to make at least three
grants of up to $70,000 per year to three different organizations. The funding
is renewable for a total of three years, beginning in 2010.
Those interested
in applying for this funding can view and download a Request For Proposals
(RFP) at
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have problems, email healthycommunities@unhny.org
for help.
A RFP
information meeting will be held:
Tuesday, June 30
from 9:30 to 11am
Hudson Guild
Theater
Hudson Guild
441 West 26th
Street (off 10th Avenue)
Manhattan
Completed proposals
are due by 5pm on Wednesday, July 29, 2009.
* The Community Experience Partnership (CEP), a
national initiative of The Atlantic Philanthropies, is working to ensure that
communities throughout the U.S. will be ready and able to engage the talents
and energy of older adults for the benefit of their communities. Through this
effort, The Atlantic Philanthropies seeks to create a paradigm shift in the
traditional perceptions of older adults as needy, vulnerable and a societal
burden to one that recognizes the experience, creativity and vital resource
this population offers to their communities.
In New York City, The Atlantic Philanthropies is
partnering with the New York Community Trust and United Neighborhood Houses of
New York (UNH) to develop new program models that unleash the potential of the
growing number of New Yorkers over 60 who seek to devote time and energy to
community improvement and social change projects.
