Good Food Access Program Technical Assistance Grant Past Projects

Past projects
Fiscal year	Organization name	City	Award amount	Project summary
2024	University of Minnesota Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships	Minneapolis	$107,582	Provide technical assistance around grant funding and produce handling to rural grocery stores in Minnesota in collaboration with a coalition of partners.
2024	Entrepreneur Fund	Duluth	$50,000	Provide technical assistance through one-on-one services and mentorships to qualified grocery stores and small food retailers across 16 counties in Northeast and Central Minnesota.
2024	Sprout, MN	Little Falls	$30,000	Provide technical assistance to small food retailers in collaboration with African Immigrant farmers on food procurement/distribution, handling and merchandising fresh foods, food preparation and utilization demonstrations for culturally specific products grown by Minnesota African Immigrant farmers in Minnesota.
2022	University of Minnesota Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships	Saint Paul	$41,557	Provide Support our Stores (SOS) technical assistance to independent grocery stores on grant funding and produce handling. An estimated 40 rural grocers will be served during the project.
2020	The Entrepreneur Fund	Duluth	$50,000	Provided technical assistance for qualified grocery stores and small food retailers across 16 counties in Northeast and Central Minnesota.
2019	Minneapolis Department of Health	Minneapolis	$53,615	Provided technical assistance to 56 SNAP-authorized small food retailers to expand the availability of healthy food, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, in the low-income neighborhoods of Near North and Camden in north Minneapolis and Philips in south Minneapolis.
2019	Region Five Development Commission	Staples	$35,000	Executed a technical assistance plan of ten workshops, six Intercultural Development Inventory Assessments, and three peer-to-peer site audits to employees and board members of 11 small food retailers in Central Minnesota.
2019	University of Minnesota Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships	Saint Paul	$75,000	Initiated their Support our Stores (SOS): Technical Assistance for Rural Grocers project to prevent store closures by providing a customized model of technical assistance to 250 rural grocery stores.