Farmer grant opportunities - Food Animals Concerns Trust (FACT)

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To learn more and open the application pages for either type of grant (apply for one or the other, not both), go directly to the FACT website: https://www.foodanimalconcernstrust.org/grants

Here are a few excerpts from their site:

"We have two different Fund-a-Farmer grant opportunities this season:​

• Fund-a-Farmer Welfare Improvement Grants up to $3,000 each​

• One Fund-a-Farmer Systems Change and Innovation Grant for up to $10,000.​

Only one application for either the Welfare Improvement OR the Systems Change and Innovation Grant will be reviewed. Learn more about each grant type below.

FACT will fund $3,000 Fund-a-Farmer grants for one of the following project types:
For farms looking to…

• Improve the lives of their farm animals. Projects could include:
  
  • Transition to pasture-based systems
  • Expand animals’ access to well-managed pasture
  • Improve the living conditions of their food animals
  • Farmers do not need to hold or be seeking certification.
• Grants for farmers pursuing animal welfare certification to one of these certifying agencies
  
  • Certified Animal Welfare Approved (AWA) and affiliated certifications by A Greener World
  • Certified Humane
  • Global Animal Partnership (GAP) Animal Welfare Certified (steps 4 to 5+)
• Grants for animal welfare certified farmers. Projects could include:
  
  • Maintain any of the following certifications
    
    • Certified Animal Welfare Approved (AWA) and affiliated certifications by A Greener World
    • Certified Humane
    • Global Animal Partnership (GAP) Animal Welfare Certified (steps 4 to 5+)
  • Projects related to the marketing, sales, and distribution of welfare-certified products.
  • Expand animals’ access to well-managed pasture
  • Improve the living conditions of their food animals

Underwritten by Food:Land:Opportunity, ASPCA and funded by FACT supporters like you.

Innovation Grant​

Moore Cattle Farm

New this year thanks to the fabulous support of ASPCA​

FACT will fund one $10,000 Fund-a-Farmer grant for one of the following project types:

Farms looking to...

• Develop business plans/feasibility studies for significant changes to an operation including conversion to pasture or adoption of alternative breeds
  
  • For example: A feasibility study to see if a farm can move from an enclosed operation to a pasture-based one
• Install the infrastructure necessary to convert from non-pasture to pasture-based operation.
  
  • For example: Hogs raised in open hoop houses, closed barns or with little or no access to pasture being moved to a pasture-based system
• Adoption of alternative breeds including sourcing genetics; housing accommodations; feed changes; marketing
  
  • For example: Farms who would like to switch from conventional breeds of poultry to higher welfare slower growing or heritage breeds
• Develop Co-operative or other forms of shared marketing among pasture-based farms including the development of cooperative agreements and necessary documents
  
  • For farms interested in developing a cooperative market for pasture-based products

FACT encourages projects from pasture-based farms interested in the adoption of alternative breeds or developing co-operatives with other pasture-based farmers and confinement operations looking to convert to pasture-based systems."