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Program Provides $10,000 to $100,000 to Selected Businesses
Applications for the City of Chicago's Good Food Fund grants — targeted to businesses that help address food inequity issues — are open until Friday, September 13.
According to the city government's website:
The Good Food Fund will provide support to food entrepreneurs in communities with inequitable access to food. The Good Food Fund was designed after intensive community engagement with the Food Equity Council and seeks to help expand, enhance, and restore the food industry using an equity and community-based approach.
Allies for Community Business (A4CB) has been selected to manage the Good Food Fund, a $5 million fund to support food entrepreneurs in communities with inequitable access to food. A4CB, in partnership with Greenwood Archer Capital, will manage the fund by providing sub-grants and low-interest loans, to businesses across the food ecosystem (production, distribution, processing, retail) in communities with inequitable food access.
A4CB will also provide industry specific business coaching and application assistance to entrepreneurs interested in applying for the fund. To ensure an equitable selection process for all, A4CB has developed a community advisory committee comprised of food and business subject-matter experts and community members, who will provide input on the eligibility criteria for fund recipients as well as support with community outreach.
The Good Food Fund was designed in collaboration with the Food Equity Council, a private-public partnership dedicated to transforming Chicago’s food system into one that is just and equitable.
If you have a relevant business and are interested in applying, click the button below to learn the detailed requirements for applications that are outlined in the above graphic; access the application; and view a video of an instructional webinar held in August.
The recipients of the first round of Good Food Fund grants — announced recently by Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection — are listed below.
Good Food Fund Grant Awardees:
Back of the Yards Coffee
Build Coffee
Carniceria La Hacienda
Carolyn's Krisps
Chicago Eats Market Place
Chocolat Uzma
Contemporary Farmer
Dope Drip
Fatso Hard Kitchen
Give Me Some Sugah Bakery
Herban Produce
Jerk Soule
Jibarito’s y Mas South Side
Jus Sandwiches
Kabob-it
Ken Tone's Drive-in
Kilwins Chocolate Fudge and Ice Cream (Hyde Park)
Kombuchade
La Esperanza
Let’s Eat to Live
Los Candiles Restaurant
Margaret’s Restaurant
Nary's Grill & Pizza
Nicole's Sandwich Shop
Nuevo Leon Bakery
Seafood Paradise on Jeffery
Shinju Sushi Japanese Restaurant
Spinzer Restaurant
Sputnik Coffee Company
Subway (Auburn Gresham)
Subway (Calumet Heights)
Supermercado Martin
SydPlayEat
Taquizas Y Banquetes El Siete
Taste Bud 1 Inc
Tatas Tacos
Taylormade Que
The Gilty Pig
The Jibarito Stop
The Tonk, Honky Tonk BBQ
Ware Ranch Steak House
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