Home Delivered Meal Grant Program

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Deadline: Applications will be accepted starting September 1, 2024 and must be received by Friday, November 1, 2024, before 11:59 pm Central Time.

The Texans Feeding Texans: Home-Delivered Meal Grant Program was established to help supplement and extend the applicants current home-delivered meal program for seniors and/or disabled Texans.

ELIGIBILITY

Applicant must:

Be a non-profit organization or governmental entity;
Have delivered meals to the homebound elderly (60 or older) or disabled individuals in the previous state fiscal; and
Receive a grant from the county in which meals are delivered, documented through a signed county resolution form. A grant equivalent to $0.25 per county senior as reported in the most recent census qualifies meal providers for funds under the Program. Less than $0.25 per county senior will qualify providers for correspondingly smaller TDA grants.

County Role

Counties can bring TDA dollars to their communities by making qualifying grants to meal providers.

The County grants should be based on the county senior population reported in the census.
County grant amounts should be equivalent to .25 cents per county senior to qualify meal providers for an HDM award. These amount can be accessed on texasgariculture.gov in the forms box.
The minimum listed in the spreadsheet must be awarded to meet the requirement for the county grant amount per the 2020 censes numbers.
Counties are welcome to “award” providers more the .25 per senior minimum amount required, however it does not mean they will get more funds from the program.
If the county grant is less than the minimum required, then the entities portion of HDM will be proportionately reduced.
If there is more than one provider in your county, each entities resolution must amount to the minimum requirement of .25 cents per county senior.
If you do not receive the minimum amount from the county, it doesn’t mean you are ineligible, it just means your award will be proportionately reduced.

USE OF FUNDS

Generally, expenses that are necessary and reasonable for proper and efficient performance and administration of the project are eligible. Funds may be used toward the following, but are not limited to:

• Personnel Costs

• Food Costs

• Supplies (packaging and utensils)

• Transportation Costs

• Small Equipment less than $5,000

• Other direct expenses related to HDM program.