Expanding the Use of Grant Funds #5

To allow for more flexibility in terms of the use of grant funds, the cap for the percentage of funds that could be used for general operations was raised from 10% to 20%. This was in recognition of the staff, and volunteer capacity and administrative work needed to implement and operate projects and programs, especially for organizations led by communities of color that are underfunded and under-resourced.

By including the language “but not limited to,” the CRF Team also adopted a trust-based grantmaking model in providing grantees flexibility to define what spending was “food-related.” This edit was done in recognition of the fact that communities of color know best how to serve their own communities.