The HFFI Food Access and Retail Expansion Fund (HFFI FARE Fund) is a new program under the expanded America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative.
Over the next 5 years, the new program will provide $60 million in loans, grants, and technical assistance for the predevelopment, planning, and implementation of eligible food retail and food retail supply chain projects.
A full Request for Applications (RFA) for the HFFI FARE Fund will be released in August 2024.
To be funded through the HFFI FARE Fund, projects must meet the general HFFI eligibility requirements. You may review these eligibility requirements in advance of the RFA release on our website at www.investinginfood.com/eligibility.
Stakeholders interested in receiving notification of the RFA release or applying to the HFFI FARE Fund can submit an Interest Form to share contact information and preliminary details about their project. The information collected through this form will be used to notify interested stakeholders when HFFI funding becomes available and to gauge the general needs of projects.