El Paso Healthy Food Finance Fund

The El Paso County Healthy Food Financing Initiative is a public-private partnership that offers grants and loans to support and accelerate the construction, establishment, rehabilitation, and/or expansion of food retail and food retail infrastructure that will increase healthy food options for currently underserved residents of El Paso County.

Available funds:

  • $500,000 in grants from El Paso County
  • $500,000 in low-interest loans from PeopleFund

Eligible Applicants: businesses or non-profit organizations; may be regional grocery chains, national grocery chains, singular grocery retail outlets, food hubs, farmer’s markets, mobile markets, other food retailers, and real estate developers.

Eligible Projects: must benefit low- to moderate-income residents in an area of El Paso County with below-average supermarket density or below-average grocery sales.

Eligible Activities: pre-development, site assembly & improvement, construction & rehabilitation, equipment, staffing, staff training, security, inventory & working capital,marketing & nutrition education.

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Applications are open March 1 – April 30. Applications have closed.

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