Food Program Assistance
Assistance for Church Food Programming Affected by COVID-19
RAFI-USA's Come to the Table program has a limited amount of technical assistance funds to assist rural United Methodist churches throughout North Carolina that are engaging in emergency hunger relief efforts during the coronavirus crisis with mini-grants of up to $1,000. Assistance is available on a first-come first-served basis to qualifying projects.
Support is available for the following types of projects :
Buying food from local farmers and/or food businesses (restaurants, etc) to give to food insecure community members
Funds to buy fuel used to deliver food to food insecure community members
Other projects deemed relevant
COVID-19 FARMERS MARKET ADVOCACY TOOLKIT
The following tools and information have been created and aggregated to support you in advocating for farmers markets to remain open during emergency orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic.