MPCA-MCSFS Wasted Food/Food Rescue

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is seeking applications for the MCSFS Statewide Prevention of Wasted Food and Food Rescue Grants. The goal of this grant program is to prevent wasted food from being generated, prevent food from going to waste, or rescue edible food from disposal and redirect it for human consumption. Eligible applicants include not-for-profit and non-profit organizations, for-profit businesses, educational and other institutions, political subdivisions of the state, state agencies, tribal governments, and multi-organizational collaborations. • Eligible projects include those that prevent food from being wasted in grocery stores, restaurants, catering operations, institutional kitchens, manufacturing companies, and other places that generate large amounts of food waste. • Education and outreach programs for audiences such as households, institutions, or community groups that will result in quantifiable reductions in wasted food. • Projects that result in edible food being rescued and distributed to people. • Purchase of equipment, supplies, services, or technology to increase processing, transportation, distribution, or storage capacity to reduce food from going to waste.