CDFA Announces the Food Systems Finance Webinar Series
CDFA is pleased to announce the CDFA Food Systems Finance Webinar Series, a free, exclusive online series connecting businesses and projects within the food system to a variety of development finance tools. Join us on April 16, 2020, for the first installment of this series, where we will explore the impacts of COVID-19 on the food system and the creative financing efforts being launched to support our local food economies during this time of unprecedented crisis.
Small Business Relief Tracker: Funding, Grants, and Resources for Business Owners
In an effort to help business owners find financial relief, Forbes has rounded up all of the government agencies, private companies and nonprofit organizations that are extending support.
COVID-19 Is Pushing Our Food System to Its Limits
At the highest level, this pandemic has revealed the shortcomings of our food industry, or rather our ability to ensure the economic security of our food workers during a crisis. Without immediate, short-term financial relief to address disrupted demand from coronavirus containment efforts, farmers risk revenue loss that is impossible to recover from.
What The $2T Stimulus Package Means For The Food System
A number of stimulus provisions are aimed at helping producers and workers throughout the food supply chain, from agricultural producers to restaurant workers, but small and independent restaurant owners say they've been left out of the stimulus package altogether.
COVID-19 Federal Rural Resource Guide
USDA and its Federal partners have programs that can be used to provide immediate and long-term assistance to rural communities affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. This resource matrix organizes funding opportunities identified in the CARES Act and other federal resources that can help support rural America.
Food Waste from Farms in the Coronavirus Pandemic
With restaurants, hotels, and schools closed, many of the nation's largest farms are having to dump or destroy millions of pounds of fresh goods that they can no longer sell.
OFN Announces 'Grow With Google' Small Business Fund
The Opportunity Finance Network announced that we are working with Google to launch the Grow with Google Small Business Fund. The $125 million fund will deliver responsible financing to CDFIs to help thousands of small businesses and nonprofits hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, Google will make a $5 million grant to OFN to help CDFIs to grow and build their capacity.
CDFA Publishes COVID-19 Resource Center, Will Host Weekly Briefings
CDFA developed the COVID-19 Resource Center to serve as a central hub of everything the development finance world is doing to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19. CDFA's Weekly Development Finance COVID-19 Briefings will highlight these mitigation and recovery efforts.
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