MAZON offers general support or project funding to organizations that provide food, in conjunction with a broad array of services*, to foster the self-reliance of hungry and low-income people.
Applicants must demonstrate a hunger component that helps eligible clients apply for and secure government food program benefits. Additionally, successful applicants will show an active involvement in efforts to address hunger’s root causes, and to weaken the link between hunger and poverty.
General range of Multi-Service grants: $5,000-$20,000. Applications in this category seeking more than $20,000 are discouraged.
*Services may include case management, job training and/or placement, legal assistance, medical care, shelter, housing assistance and advocacy or referral services to help clients obtain such aid elsewhere. |
Funding Priorities
Multi-Service Organizations provide food in conjunction
with services/programs that foster self-sufficiency
among low-income people. However, Multi-Service
Organizations must also demonstrate meaningful
involvement in anti-hunger advocacy and education.
 This
reflects MAZON’s belief that private food
and assistance programs, while important and necessary,
are not substitutes for the systemic change needed
to address the problems of hunger and poverty
in America. Although applicants are not required
to request MAZON funding for anti-hunger advocacy
and education, all proposals must evidence a strong
commitment to and participation in this kind of
work.
Advocacy-related activities might include using
an organization’s newsletter to educate
clients and community members about hunger, maintaining
communication with legislators regarding hunger-related
bills, speaking out on behalf of government food
assistance programs (especially the Food Stamp
Program and WIC) and supporting state and local
anti-hunger advocates.
Applicants should also show a commitment to addressing
the broader causes of hunger through organizational
mission statements and publications.
Examples of the kinds of work we support in this
funding area include:
- a social service organization that provides
elderly clients with a range of programs, including
the delivery of groceries, health screening
and assistance in securing food stamps and other
benefits;
- a Jewish Family Service agency's emergency
assistance program, which includes kosher food,
housing assistance, medical care, counseling,
and referral services to low-income people;
- a shelter or transitional housing program
that collaborates with the broader anti-hunger
community to effectuate long-term solutions
to hunger.
Learn more about MAZON’s
grant application process. |
