Is your community group, school or organization doing something to promote healthy eating and local food security?
If so, the Partners for Healthier Communities: North Cariboo (P4HC:NC) want to hear about it. P4HC: NC is now accepting Request for Proposals (RFPs) from local community groups, schools and/or organizations as part of an Imagine Grant application for the 2018-19 Empowering Family Health Project.
The focus of the P4HC:NC is supporting grassroots projects that will lead to an increase in local food production.
The Empowering Family Health Project was initiated in 2016 to assist with projects related to growing food, preserving or storing food, and improving food security in the rural areas of the North Cariboo.
The intention of the RFP is to encourage organizations, groups and schools that have initiated an idea or project that supports the vision of the P4HC:NC to become a partner and submit a proposal so funding can be allocated to their project in the next stream of funding, if approved. The project or idea must meet the criteria and conditions of P4HC grants as specified by Northern Health and meet the intent of the Empowering Family Health Project of “Growing North Cariboo Food & Communities.”
To receive funds under this RFP, applicants must be based in the North Cariboo of the Cariboo Regional District and of the Northern Health Authority. Proposals must be submitted by June 30.
To request a RFP form, contact program resource development and workshop facilitator Heloise Dixon-Warren at empoweringfamilyhealth@gmail.com.
For more information on the Empowering Family Health program, visit empoweringfamilyhealth.blogspot.ca.
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On the topic of food security in our region, Interior Health is looking at re-structuring how it administers its Community Food Action Initiative (CFAI) funds and grants and is asking for input.
“We want to understand how people, groups and communities are working together to advance community food security,” Interior Health public health dietitian Kandice Mueller says in an email.
The survey can be found at surveymonkey.com/r/workingtogethercommunityfoodsecurity until May 31.