[Kristina Ortiz]

This is how Colorado distributed their funding. I am a FA associated Food Bank but CO chose a decentralized approach. Colorado LFPA Plus Executive Summary | Agricultural Marketing Service. Let me know if I can help with any questions and can connect you with anyone, I know that can help.

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[Thanh Tran]

Thank you Kristina. If its possible to connect me with someone who can share how CO has implemented the “decentralized approach”, I would like to get the details of their RFA form and process. Martha from MA shared a link to their form in this thread. This is a good example. Having additional examples from our surrounding states would be super helpful and might carry a bit more weight with our DHS folks.

[Martha Suquet]

Here’s the LFPA+ RFR from Massachusetts MDAR LFPA PLUS RFR final.pdf | Mass.gov, and here are lists of awardees from both rounds: Connect with Awarded Organizations | Mass.gov. We’ve been asked to source as much as possible from Massachusetts farms, with some leeway because we’re near other state borders, and MDAR provided a list of self-identified Socially Disadvantaged farmers who were interested in selling to grantees.

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[Thanh Tran]

Thank you so much Martha. MDAR’s RFR form is a great example.

I noticed on page 3 a reference to “EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS”. Just curious if/how they are involved with your LFPA program.

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[Jayme Chester]

Hi Thanh Tran,

I’d be happy to connect you with the folks that Administer the funding in New Mexico. They are not a part of the network but if you email me, I will connect you with them.

Email – [email protected]

Thanks – jayme

[Christine Quane]

Hi Thanh, in Michigan front line organizations like Food Hubs – who then connected with other community nonprofits – were subawardees in addition to our Food Bank Council. I looked for information on our process and couldn’t really find anything current, but reach out to Amy Viselli, [email protected], she is the program coordinator and I am sure she wouldn’t mind answering any questions you might have about our state’s management of LFPA.

[Thanh Tran]

Thank you so much Christine for the help. Lots of great local food system research and on-the-ground work coming out of Michigan! I’ll reach out via email.

[Alex Cortes]

Hi Thanh,

I work for the Minnesota Department of Agriculture; we’ve administered our funding through two rounds of competitive RFPs. We have ~55 subrecipients (round two details are not yet public) that are primarily nonprofits and government entities. Round one sub-recipients are listed on our website along with the round 2 RFP. Feel free to reach out if there’s more info that can be useful: [email protected]