How To Apply

SNAP-Ed at MFF provides funding to local and regional organizations to promote nutrition education and physical activity. Funding advances Michigan’s SNAP-Ed priorities by helping people optimize food budgets, connect to food resources, and improve access to healthy food while supporting active lifestyles.

Programming Essentials Opportunity

SNAP-Ed at MFF is offering Programming Essentials resource packages to help community organizations implement activities that expand nutrition and physical activity opportunities for people they serve. Through these resources, organizations can engage low-income community members in optimizing food budgets, connecting to local food resources, incorporating physical activity into daily life, and improving access to healthy foods and safe opportunities for physical activity.

Organizations may request one or more of the available Program Essentials resource packages. 

Eligibility Criteria

This opportunity is open to non-profit organizations and community-based groups that meet all of the following:

• Operate in Michigan.
• Are currently implementing, or prepared to implement, nutrition, gardening, and/or physical activity programming within their communities.
• Already work with SNAP participants, individuals who can receive SNAP benefits or other means-tested federal assistance programs, and/or individuals residing in communities or attending schools with a significant low-income population (See the Eligibility document for details).

Examples may include: food pantries, schools and after-school programs, faith-based organizations, community centers, housing organizations, healthcare and social service organizations, and other organizations serving low-income community members.

How to participate

1. Review the available Programming Essentials options.
2. Complete and submit an online interest form for each package you are interested in receiving.
3. MFF will review submissions on a first come, first served basis.
4. Organizations/groups selected to receive resources will be notified and receive information about next steps.
5. Programming essentials packages will be distributed to selected organizations/groups. Please note that packages are likely to arrive in multiple shipments/packages.

Interest forms will be accepted until July 31 or until available funds are exhausted, whichever comes first.

Submit any questions to snap-ed@michiganfitness.org.