Applying For a Love Your Veggies™ Grant
The makers of Hidden Valley® Salad Dressings are now accepting applications for the 2008-09 Love Your Veggies™ grant program. Each grant award will support an elementary school in developing a program offering fresh vegetables and fruits lasting through the 2009-10 school year. Each school grant will consist of $15,000 in direct funding.*
Grant awards will be based on proposals that demonstrate need, innovation, greatest likelihood of sustainable impact on the students they are serving and potential for community involvement.
Funding must be spent on any of the following:
- Fresh produce (vegetables and fruits)
- A vegetable station (such as a dedicated salad bar)
- Kitchen equipment (primary usage must relate to proposed program)
- Program staffing (cafeteria personnel, lunchroom staff, etc.)
- Nutrition education supplies
- Food Safety Training
All proposals must be submitted via the grant program’s Web site, www.LoveYourVeggiesGrants.org. Proposals must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Nov. 7, 2008. Late proposals will not be accepted. Schools will be notified of their award status by March of 2009.
Application Checklist: When completing your grant application, the system will prompt you after 25 minutes asking you if you'd like more time, and then subsequently, prompting you every 15 minutes after that. If you do not accept these prompts, the system will time out and your application will not be saved. Having all of your information together -- and even creating a word document of your completed application (which will allow you to track word count) before you start -- will help you successfully complete the application process in a timely manner. Find out what you’ll need to prepare before filling out your application by clicking here.
Grant Application: Have you reviewed the grant guidelines and application checklist?
*Purchase of Hidden Valley® Original Ranch® Dressings and products is not required to receive or keep a grant.