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Food security

Pella Community Foundation

​Our basic purpose is to ​preserve the heritage and enhance the quality of life for the people of Pella by helping to transfer funds from the hands of people who wish to help others to nonprofit organizations that can do it most efficiently.

Application Deadline 

Funds are distributed through Board Directed Grants, Impact Grants, and the Garden Chapel Fund. The deadline for each is November 15 of each year. For details, see the Grants page on the organization's website. 

Rotary Foundation of Rotary International

The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotary members to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty. The Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation supported solely by voluntary...

Application Deadline 

For steps required to apply for a grant, visit the Grants page.

Various types of scholarships are available . Visit the Scholarships page for details.  

 

UNFI Foundation

Inspiring better food systems and nurturing everyday health in communities.

Application Deadline 

Application address: Melody Meyersalisha Real, 313 Iron Horse Way, Providence, RI 02908

Phone: (401) 528-8634

No deadlines; Applications are accepted as long as funds are available 

DeWitt Area Community Foundation

Also known as LincolnWay Community Foundation, an affiliate of the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque.

LincolnWay Community Foundation assists in charitable projects and programs that contribute to the quality of life in rural Clinton County, Iowa. The Foundation provides grants,...

Application Deadline 

Applications available February 1; applications due March 1; awards announced month of April.

See https://www.dbqfoundation.org/grants/lincolnway-community-foundation-grant for additional information.

Magnus (A. J.) Home

Grants paid directly to the facility for elderly men, age 70 and older, in Muscatine, Iowa, to provide pleasant homes and nutritious meals.

Application Deadline 

Application address: Senior Men Grants, 500 Cedar Street, Muscatine, IA 52761

Phone: 563-264-2727

Submission deadline: N/A

Conagra Brands Foundation

The mission of the ConAgra Foods Foundation is to improve the quality of life in communities where ConAgra Foods employees work and live. We focus our resources in these areas: Arts and Culture; Civic and Community Betterment; Education; Health and Human Services; Hunger, Nutrition and Food...

Application Deadline 

For details, see the Conagra Brands Foundation welcome page.

No submission deadline. 

Weatherspoon Charitable Foundation

Giving for childhood development and education, Christian services, food services to the needy, aid to the homeless, and environmental conservation.

Application Deadline