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Delaware has been awarded a cooperative agreement for USDA’s Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program (RFSI), which aims to help create more and better processing options for local and regional producers across the food supply chain. Funds will build resilience across the middle of Delaware’s food supply chain for food crops. Funds will support expanded capacity for the aggregation, processing, manufacturing, storing, transporting, wholesaling, and distribution of locally and regionally produced food products, including specialty crops, dairy, grains for human consumption, aquaculture, and other food products, and excluding meat and poultry, fiber, wild-caught seafood, exclusively animal feed and forage products, fiber, landscaping products, tobacco, and dietary supplements.
RFSI is funded through Section 1001(b)(4) of the Federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. The Department will offer RFSI funding to Infrastructure Grants through a competitive subawards process administered according to the USDA requirements. Delaware’s Request for Applications will open on March 12, 2024, and close on April 30, 2024.
Using a standardized review process, the Department will award:
Delaware Request for Applications
RFSI Budget Match Worksheet
Collaborating Organization Template Letter
Verification of Matching Funds Template Letter
Critical Resources and Infrastructure Template Letter
RFSI Applicant Environmental Questionnaire
Delaware RFSI Review Panel Criteria Evaluation Form
DDA has partnered with the Delaware Community Foundation to manage the Foundant platform for ease of access to applications and all program reporting materials. Applications must be completed using Foundant, an online platform.
Once you click on the button below, you will need to create a login for Foundant. You will access the system to complete or upload the following:
Delaware Division of Accounting
820 Silver Lake Blvd., Suite 200
Dover, DE 19904
Ph: 302-526-5600
Email: FSF_Supplier_Maintenance@delaware.gov
DDA will host an informational webinar about the RFSI grant program and hold virtual office hours for prospective grant applicants. These require prior registration to attend.
Video: Informational RFSI Grant Program Webinar at 10 a.m. on March 21, 2024
Virtual Delaware RFSI Office Hours:
Click to Register: 10 a.m. on April 4, 2024
Click to Register: 10 a.m. on April 18, 2024
If your questions are not answered after reviewing the website, you may email programmatic questions or inquiries to DDA_farmandfoodpolicy@delaware.gov.
Related Topics: food supply chain, Resilitent Food Systems Infrastructure Program, RFSI, USDA-AMS