Food Banks Canada (FBC) Capacity Boost Grant 2026 – YOA

Deadline: December 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Food Banks Canada (FBC) Capacity Boost Grant 2026. In 2025, Food Banks Canada (FBC) launched its new 5-12 months Strategic Plan with a key precedence of strengthening the meals financial institution community to satisfy demand. Despite the supply of surplus meals throughout the community, persistent bottlenecks proceed to restrict its well timed and efficient distribution to these experiencing meals insecurity.

These bottlenecks embody restricted storage capability (warehouse and chilly storage services), challenges with transporting meals, and inadequate choices to course of perishable objects, amongst others. To meet each instant and longer-time period wants, the community should evolve from siloed organizations to a coordinated, resilient community.

The 2026 Capacity Boost Grant, supported by FBC, goals to construct the community’s capability to simply accept, retailer, and distribute meals with the last word objective of accelerating the quantity of meals obtainable to meals-insecure households.

Grant

The 2026 Capacity Boost Grant will assist the kind of purchases and tasks listed beneath if they permit the applicant group to satisfy any of the 2026 Capacity Boost goals.

• Refrigeration gear – e.g., fridges, freezers, cooler room, and so forth.
• Transportation gear – e.g., automobiles together with cargo vans, refrigerated automobiles, retrofitting automobiles, trailers, refrigerated or non-refrigerated, brief-time period automobile leases, and so forth.
• Temporary off-web site meals storage choices – e.g. warehouse rental (should embody longer-time period technique within the application for meals storage).
• Consultant charges for growing plans to extend organizational capability.
• New implementation of stock administration software program and associated gear.
• Food transformation gear for giant-scale manufacturing, together with giant-capability meals processors, preparation tables, mixers, slicers, mixture (combi) ovens, steamers, and different kitchen home equipment reminiscent of vacuum sealers and freeze dryers.
• Product dealing with and warehouse gear – e.g., forklifts, pallet jacks, and so forth.
• Minor capability-associated building tasks – e.g., loading docks, stroll-in freezer storage, and so forth. (should be incurred between February 1, 2026, and August 31, 2026).
• Safe meals dealing with gear to assist chilly chain upkeep.
• Part-time staffing prices to assist the grant’s goals could also be thought of.
• Other chilly chain gear and/or methods to assist the storage and distribution of meals.
• Emergency mills for energy outages.

Eligibility

The 2026 Capacity Boost Grant is open to Food Banks Canada’s meals financial institution community together with:

• Affiliate meals banks (member of a provincial affiliation);
• Provincial associations;
• Food banks and meals safety organizations positioned within the territories and the distant northern areas of provinces.

Please be aware: 

• Organizations making use of for a grant could solely submit one application for funds.
  • Groups of meals banks could submit a joint application the place every collaborating accomplice group will obtain a shared and measurable profit from the grant. They encourage these submitting a joint application to evaluation it with their provincial affiliation previous to submission to make sure that it aligns with provincial goals. By working collectively, candidates can strengthen their proposals by pooling assets, aligning targets to handle meals insecurity, and maximizing affect. This collaborative strategy fosters native partnerships, reduces duplication of efforts, and will increase the potential for sustainable, group-pushed outcomes
• Applications from organizations which have excellent grant reviews attributable to Food Banks Canada won’t be thought of till these reviews are obtained and reviewed.
• To be eligible, organizations making use of for a grant will need to have not less than one individual on workers or a volunteer who has accomplished protected meals dealing with coaching by a acknowledged supply (e.g. public well being, Food Banks Canada, and so forth.)

Application

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For extra data, go to Capacity Boost Grant.