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Grant Types

StopWaste is offering $1.1 million in grant opportunities to nonprofits, businesses, and institutions with projects aimed at increasing individual, business, and community involvement in the prevention of waste in Alameda County. 

Read about the six grant categories below to start your application process:

Daily Bowl food rescue

Food Waste Prevention & Recovery Grants

Available to nonprofits, businesses, institutions, and school districts, these grants fund innovative projects that prevent surplus food from being generated by redesigning the way food is produced, processed, distributed or prepared. Funding is also available for projects that recover and redistribute surplus edible food that is donated to address food insecurity and nourish communities. Up to $30,000 per grant.

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Fixit Clinic

Reuse and Repair Grants 

Available to nonprofits and businesses, these grants fund innovative projects that prevent waste through reuse, repair, deconstruction, redistribution, product or process redesign, recovery, and other ways that keep goods and other materials out of disposal or recycling. The goal is to conserve natural resources and stimulate economic activity in the reuse and recovery sectors. Up to $25,000 per grant.

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Surplus Food Donation Equipment Grants

Available to nonprofits, these grants provide funding to strengthen the capacity of non-profit organizations to increase the safe recovery and/or distribution of edible surplus food generated by businesses in Alameda County to nourish communities with food donations that would otherwise go to waste. Up to $10,000 per grant.

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Reusable transport grants

Reusable Transport Packaging Equipment Grants

Available to nonprofits and businesses, these grants fund reusable, durable alternatives to replace limited-life packaging used in manufacturing, transportation and/or distribution, such as boxes, pallets, pallet wraps, and dunnage. Funds help cover the upfront reusable equipment costs. Once reusables are in place, organizations often see long-term cost savings by eliminating (or significantly reducing) recurring costs for packaging materials. Up to $10,000 per grant.

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Daily Bowl food rescue

Community Food Systems Grants

Available to nonprofits and businesses, these grants fund community-rooted and driven projects that address gaps and shortfalls of the food system with innovative longer-term strategies to improve food access, address equity, economic opportunities, and community health. The goal is to support efforts that prevent the wasting of healthy, culturally appropriate, and locally grown food, and ensure it is being equitably distributed to communities in need. Up to $10,000 per grant.

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Reusable Foodware Infrastructure Grants

Available to businesses, nonprofits, and institutions, these grants fund innovative projects that explore the feasibility of replacing single-use, disposable foodware with reusable systems. The goal is to eliminate single-use foodware and instead develop local infrastructure to make reusable foodware accessible to businesses and consumers. Up to $25,000 per grant.

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