Proposal Package

Selection Criteria

High-quality proposals will demonstrate the ability, capacity, and expertise to successfully and independently:

• Assess and respond to changing community needs that impact SNAP-Ed qualifying peoples’ healthy eating and active living
• Integrate into focus communities and/or engage with focus populations, developing an on-the-ground understanding of current and emergent needs
• Design a tailored program approach based on a systems-level view to community change
• Deliver comprehensive, community-based programming that balances policy, systems, and environmental change (PSE) efforts that support healthy eating and active living with complementary direct education (DE) intervention(s) focusing on individual behavior change
• Apply multi-sector collaboration work to PSE change efforts
• Manage and monitor program operations and programming, including ensuring that selected intervention(s) are implemented with fidelity
• Use evaluation to inform program improvement

Proposals undergo an objective review process that includes external content-expert reviewers who score each proposal on how well proposed evidence-based programming meets identified community needs, inclusion of comprehensive community approaches, and demonstrated ability to independently implement a SNAP-Ed program.

Note: Prior funding from MFF is not a guarantee of future funding. Past SNAP-Ed program and operations compliance, completion of grant requirements, and program performance will be considered in the proposal review process, as applicable.

All funding is contingent on the availability of funds.

Documents

Required forms

• Program Narrative (Click to download a Word document)
• Anticipated Programming Form (Submit via Qualtrics)
• Budget Worksheet (Click to download an Excel file)

Instructions

• Program Narrative Instructions (Links to PDF in new window or right click to download)
• Anticipated Programming Form Instructions (Links to PDF in new window or right click to download)
• Budget Worksheet Instructions (Links to PDF in new window or right click to download)

Other resources to assist you in completing the Request for Proposals (RFP)

• De Minimis Certification (Links to PDF in new window or right click to download)
• RFP Process Overview (Links to PDF in new window or right click to download)
• FY 2025 Programming and Operations Manual (Links to PDF in new window or right click to download)

Funding is expected to become increasingly limited; therefore, duplicative funding for similar programming must be avoided. Do not include overlapping program strategies, activities, and/or program sites funded through other sources in your proposal.

Questions

If you have questions about the FY 2026 Request for Proposals (RFP) for Subrecipients, send an email to SNAP-EdAtMFF-RFP@michiganfitness.org (Click to open an email) or submit your question using the form on the Subrecipient FAQs Click to open a new window page.

Questions will be logged, answered, and then posted in weekly batches. To ensure that questions are answered in time to inform your proposal writing process, please submit questions by April 16, 2025.

Subrecipient FAQs

Technical Assistance

FY 2026 Request for Proposals Information Session
The FY 2026 Information Session was hosted live March 24. The recorded content and slides are below. Questions from the session are compiled on the FAQs page under the header, Information Session.

 

View/download the slides (Links to PDF in new window or right click to download)

Submit Proposal Package

All proposal documents must be packaged in one folder, then compressed as a ZIP file for upload.

Packaging the required documents into a ZIP file groups them together into a single file to make uploading easier. You do not need any special software to create a ZIP file.

For Windows users Locate the items that you want to zip Right-click on the file, folder, or files you want to zip Select “Send to”, and then select “Compressed (zipped) folder” Find the newly created ZIP archive in the same directory

For Mac users Locate the items that you want to zip Right-click on the file, folder, or files you want to zip Select “Compress items” Find the newly created ZIP archive in the same directory

If you experience technical difficulties when creating a ZIP file or when using the upload mechanism, please email SNAP-EdAtMFF-RFP@michiganfitness.org.

Upload your complete proposal package*
*File must be submitted in a ZIP format.