The CACFP provides administrative payments and reimbursement for meals and snacks to DCH Sponsors. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) makes additional administrative funds available to DCH sponsors to recruit, train, and enroll DCH providers in the CACFP in low-income or rural areas.
None is available.
Applicants with current Serious Deficiency status are not eligible to apply for or receive funds. Sponsors must have no previous history of disqualification from any other USDA-funded program.
Eligible applicants are:
Applicants must be a public or nonprofit private institution with tax exempt-status and must already be a DCH sponsor in the CACFP. At least twelve months must have elapsed since the DCH sponsor received start-up or expansion funds and completed all related requirements (all obligations completed by April 30, 2016). Applicants must have a history of managing funds and ongoing program activities, and must demonstrate that proposed new DCH providers are in low-income or rural areas. Applicants must have a plan for recruiting and training DCH providers currently not participating in the CACFP.
Applications were to be submitted by December 31, 2020. A similar deadline is anticipated annually.
Approximately $195,000 is anticipated to be available in total funding. Awards will be up to $12,000 per grantee. This program follows the allocation formula: $240 multiplied by the number of proposed new providers to be added to the CACFP, multiplied by one or two months. The maximum number of providers to be added during expansion award period is 50. Cost sharing/matching is not required.