Accessing Produce Delivery Funding in Rural Indiana

GrantID: 76973

Grant Funding Amount Low: $1,000

Deadline: Ongoing

Grant Amount High: $150,000

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If you are located in Indiana and working in the area of Faith Based, this funding opportunity may be a good fit. For more relevant grant options that support your work and priorities, visit The Grant Portal and use the Search Grant tool to find opportunities.

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Grant Overview

Indiana's food access barriers for seniors concentrate in counties where more than 15 percent of residents over 65 live more than ten miles from a full-service grocery store and lack personal vehicles. State health department maps identify 14 such counties, primarily in the southern and western regions where population density drops below 50 persons per square mile.

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Indiana Senior Produce Delivery Barriers and Local Solutions

Low-income seniors in these counties face compounded obstacles when fixed incomes coincide with rising fuel costs and limited volunteer driver pools. Local data show that 31 percent of households headed by someone 65 or older in these counties report skipping meals at least once a month due to transportation rather than income alone.

Funding addresses the barrier when proposals demonstrate contracts with at least three farms located inside the same county or an adjacent one, eliminating cross-state supply chains that increase spoilage risk. Delivery routes must be mapped to existing senior nutrition sites so that one stop serves multiple recipients, a design feature reviewers verify against county GIS layers.

Who faces this barrier locally includes elders living on fixed Social Security payments in towns that lost their last grocery store within the past decade. Organizations must quantify the exact number of unduplicated seniors to be reached and tie that number to waiting lists at area agencies on aging. Applications that cite generic rural challenges without county-level data are not advanced.

Indiana differs from Kentucky in that produce delivery projects must also comply with cottage food regulations when any value-added items such as jams are included, requiring separate inspection certificates from the Indiana State Department of Health.

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