Assistance for Fruit Orchards Grant
In context
This call is open to non-profits, registered charities and local authorities and 1 other. Funding is a grant. Coverage is read from the notice itself: any country. The funder accepts early-stage applicants.
This grant provides planting materials and technical assistance to establish fruit orchards for charitable purposes in communities, schools, parks, and low-income neighborhoods. Eligible applicants are nonprofit organizations, public/nonprofit schools, and government entities serving charitable missions.
About this grant
The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (FTPF) provides orchard donations to qualified organizations to alleviate world hunger, combat global warming, strengthen communities, and improve air, soil, and water quality. FTPF strategically donates orchards to community gardens, public schools, city and state parks, low-income neighborhoods, Native American reservations, international hunger relief sites, and animal sanctuaries. For selected recipients, FTPF provides high-quality fruit trees and shrubs, equipment, on-site orchard design expertise and oversight, horticultural workshops, aftercare training and manuals, subsidized deer fencing and drip irrigation installation, volunteer coordination, and educational programming. Schools receive age-appropriate curriculum emphasizing the environmental importance of trees and fruit in the diet. Free arboricultural workshops are offered throughout planting day.
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Eligibility
Recipients must be nonprofits, NGOs, public schools, or government entities serving a charitable purpose. Currently, FTPF is only accepting applications from the United States and is at capacity for international programming. Recipients must be fully committed to caring for trees in perpetuity with a clear goal to use the orchard to further their charitable mission. Recipients must have a horticulturally appropriate planting site capable of hosting a grove of fruit trees at approximately 15 foot intervals, with a minimum of approximately 15-20 trees depending on the program. Recipients must either own the planting site, have a long-term lease in place, or work with a nonprofit or government entity that owns the site with a long-term usage agreement. The orchard must have reliable year-round irrigation nearby. Recipients must help coordinate attendance of local volunteers on planting day.
How it's scored
FTPF evaluates applications on a rolling basis to determine if there is an excellent match for one of their programs. The application process evaluates site factors including horticultural appropriateness and feasibility. No specific scoring rubric or panel composition is disclosed.
Key requirements
- ✓Applicant must be a nonprofit organization, public school, nonprofit school, or government entity
- ✓Fruit orchard must serve charitable purposes and benefit communities for generations
- ✓Eligible sites include community gardens, public schools, city/state parks, low-income neighborhoods, international hunger relief sites, or animal sanctuaries
Frequently asked questions
- Who can apply for Assistance for Fruit Orchards?
- Eligibility covers organisations in GLOBAL; nonprofit, charity, local-authority, community-group. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.
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Regenerative agriculture funding supports soil health, cover cropping, reduced tillage, agroforestry and grazing practices that store carbon and restore land. It comes through agricultural support schemes, research programmes and supply-chain initiatives run with food companies. Applicants often need farmer partners, field trial plans and a way to monitor soil outcomes.
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