City of Sioux Falls

Applications for the 2022 EWSF Grant Program will be accepted on a rolling basis until available funds are awarded. Please complete the online application below. For the best experience, please use Chrome or Edge to complete your application. The grant committee will review the application and may reach out to applicants, as necessary, to seek additional information. After submitting, you will receive an email confirmation from Live Well Sioux Falls within 72 hours. If you do not receive a confirmation OR if you have any questions about the application process, please send an email to livewell@siouxfalls.org with the title “2022 EWSF Grant Program."

Project Description: ensure to address the following topics:

1. Project Overview: What you are proposing to do and what you will use the grant money for.
2. Project Location and Target Population. See map (PDF) for list of priority census tracts.
3. Potential for Impact: the estimated number of residents that will be served or reached by the intervention.
4. Equity: how the intervention will ensure community engagement, affordability, and utilization of the product or service in an equitable manner.
5. Feasibility of Intervention and Likelihood of Success: linkage with existing organizational or other community resources, programs and assets.
6. Organizational Capacity: history of success, leadership and human resource capacity, strength of partnerships, and financial strength or health of the organization.
7. Sustainability Plan: applicants must be willing to operate the store or program for a minimum of five years. Applications will also be reviewed on the quality of the plan for sustaining the intervention beyond the initial five-year period.
8. Evaluation Plan: how the rollout, success and impact of the intervention will be assessed.
9. Ability to offer fresh produce and fresh meat.

Supporting Documents

• Budget for the entire project
• Project timeline.
• For grocery store or supermarket proposals, include floor plans indicating square footage and the percentage of retail floor area that will be dedicated to the sale of a general line of food products, such as dairy, canned and frozen foods, fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh and prepared meats, fish and poultry.
• Other relevant documents, such as board resolutions, support letters, etc.