The nonprofit that serves a diverse population of LGBTQ young people used FTF Grant dollars for two distinct programs: drive-up meal packages and delivery service. Both programs were culturally specific and shaped to provide meals for diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and needs. FTF allowed it to pay attention to the nuances, and, therefore, provide sustainable and equitable outreach to communities. Through these programs, it increased the diversity of its population and partnerships exponentially. 

The nonprofit organization that focuses on mothers and cultural foods used FTF Grant dollars to provide more than 1,800 families with indigenous care packages. The collective, which also was part of the team of community members that provided input on equitable FTF application design, also secured office space with the help of an FTF Grant.

A one-aisle mobile produce market operates in senior communities without easy access to healthy food. Gregory’s Fresh Market works to restore meaningful food access and eliminate health disparities in under-resourced communities. In 2020, the market pivoted to a delivery service, providing bags of fresh fruits and vegetables to more than 10,000 veterans and seniors. The Funds to Feed Grant dollars enabled the nonprofit to increase its services without interruption and reach more community members in need. 

The organization that serves at-risk Black people — elders, houseless folks, people with pre-existing health issues, and poor people — responded to the COVID-19 crisis by delivering fresh organic fruits and vegetables (grown by Black farmers), halal meats, and farm fresh eggs to families. Funds to Feed Grant dollars allowed DGF to expand its outreach to Black communities, and to expand our infrastructure of new gardens, volunteers, and spaces for distribution. 

ICNA Relief works to build healthy communities, strengthen families, and create opportunities for those in despair while maintaining their dignity and advocation for their basic human needs. Before the pandemic, it primarily distributed non-perishable food, but during the pandemic, it was awarded USDA food boxes, which included dairy and produce products. The Funds to Feed Grant dollars helped cover the cost of renting cold storage and refrigerated trucks. 

The FTF Grant dollars helped the program offer additional food resources to extended family members of students enrolled in Paideia Academy who experienced food insecurity. The partnership also dramatically increased services to meet the needs of a mostly Black and, Latinx population with specific food support given to mothers and women heads of family. The project also offered vitamin supplements, breastfeeding equipment and quality food in the form of fresh produce and prepared meals to pregnant and parenting families enrolled in MODABA programs and services. It supported pregnant mothers who had difficulty getting to stores by providing food drop off and easy preparation recipes with healthy nutritious meals for families. 

The nonprofit organization used Funds to Feed Grant dollars to feed native people in Phoenix, including elders and seniors, homeless, through delivery and walk-up distribution of tote-bags full of food with traditional native foods and to support housing of families. It provided Rental assistance for unsheltered people and those impacted by housing evictions due to COVID-19. It partnered with Sana Sana Native Food Truck to distribute food to native communities and to students. Sana Sana used traditional native ingredients from Ramona Farms and other native local growers and farmers, keeping the dollars in the community. NAC also worked with homeless locations to outreach to native people most impacted and at risk for COVID-19 to provide food, shelter, masks, gloves, and sanitizer. 

The organization’s mission is to acknowledge, learn about, and celebrate the "healthy roots" of families in its south Phoenix community. With Funds to Feed Grant money and the Chef Maria Parra Cano’s expertise it created meals and share menus that use traditional foods of which people in the community are familiar but without the unhealthy commodity, refined, or concentrated animal feeding operations-produced components. FTF also supported new projects and partnerships in small-scale, urban farming; operating the Healthy Roots Café; expansion of fresh-food delivery to the community. 

Social Spin is a small community-based laundromat that serves low-income families and unsheltered people. It believes everyone deserves clean clothes and a safe place to be with their family. The Funds to Feed Grant dollars allowed it to start a laundry and food distribution service to support the community during the COVID-19 pandemic. It served hot meals and free laundry services while people ate their food and socialized; it expanded our hours to accommodate more people, and it provided meal kits and meal-backpacks for families and unsheltered community members. Social Spin worked with local farmers markets and women-of-color run catering businesses to help bring in healthy food and shape accessible menus to our customers. This provided nourishing meals, as well as helped other businesses to stay open during the pandemic.

FTF Grant dollars were used for its “Meals To-Go" program, which provided "take and bake" meals with frozen, refrigerated, and shelf-stable items. The bags included cooking instructions for the parents. 

Balsz provided food totes of ready-to-eat meals and snacks. 

Funds to Feed Grant dollars were used to provided meals on Mondays and Wednesdays. On Mondays, they provided three days’ worth of food, and on Wednesdays they provide four days’ worth of food. The families received bags of food for each child in their household who is 0 -18 years of age.

It provided a weekly curbside pick-up of meals. When students returned to on-site school four days a week, parents could pick up three breakfasts, three lunches, five snacks and five dinners each week. 

Rosanne Albright, the city’s environmental programs coordinator for air quality, brownfields and food system. She combined what she learned about the grassroots community ecosystem through her work on city’s food action plan with what she knew about the capacity of LISC Phoenix to manage a sizeable grant into a pitch for FTF. The Phoenix city manager’s office supported Albright’s idea to decentralize some of the CARES Act funds for food assistance. The Phoenix City Council, seeing the potential for job creation and direct assistance in high-need areas during a pandemic, was even more enthusiastic about FTF. It approved more money than initially requested.

Building on and inspired by the vibrant mutual aid work happening in Phoenix, InSite Consultants worked with LISC Phoenix to create equitable engagement and funding protocols to support the Funds To Feed Grant recipients. Their assistance with outreach and engagement with the grassroots organizations ensured a trusted relationship was built between LISC and the grantees. InSite supported peer to peer learning sessions that not only built collaborations between grantees but ensured execution of the grant funds maintained an equitable approach.