Food Bank applicants must be a member of the Feeding America program, or a food distribution organization that provides a fully rigorous vetting process throughout their entire hierarchical chain.
Grant amounts will vary depending on the number of participating pantries and the estimated total amount of dog-food to be distributed during the year. These grants are distributed directly to each individual participating food bank on a continuing annual basis.
These funds must be used solely to offset the permitted shared-maintenance cost for dog-food that pantries would otherwise have to pay the food bank.
Participating food banks must have an existing organizational structure and product sourcing program in place for procuring and distributing donated and salvage dog-food.
Grant funds are only to be used for dog-food received from your own internal product sourcing and not for direct purchases of dog food.
The Jazzy’s Place grant program is available to all Food Banks and pantries that do not have an existing financial sponsor or benefactor providing for dog-food.
The Caplan Bensley Foundation provides funds for participating Food Banks to put on account
to offset the shared-maintenance costs associated with providing dog-food to their participating network of member pantries.
Funds must be used solely for the purpose of offsetting the shared-maintenance cost otherwise incurred by the food pantry in providing salvage or donated dog food to their member clients.
Food banks can sign-up for the program by completing the Food Bank Application form before
November 2nd each year. After applications are submitted, eligible food banks will receive an immediate confirmation followed by email link instructions to forward to all member pantries.
In order to participate, Food banks will send these email instructions to all member pantries.
When member pantries receive the email instructions forwarded from their Food Bank, they will click the included link to fill out the online Pantry Application Form. They will then select their respective Food Bank from the built-in dropdown list to automatically populate their Food Bank's information, and complete all remaining fields to submit their agency’s data to the CBF by December 18th.
After this deadline, CBF will review all information provided from all pantry applications received.
The CBF will send a follow-up email to each food bank on January 7th of the following year, based on all responses, after final calculations are reviewed. This email will include grant award amounts as well as a link to download the summary list of their pantries that have responded and are now eligible to receive dog food distributions for the coming year.
Food Banks will also receive their grant award checks at that time.
Every year, form is sent as a to the participating food banks to report the amount of dog food distributed to the pantries using the Jazzy’s Place grant.
On December 2nd each year, Food Banks awarded grants, will be sent a Year-End reminder along with a copy of the Jan 7th summary list of their participating pantries to fill in the amount of dog food attributable to and procured by the these participating pantries and the associated shared-
maintenance costs. CBF uses this information to determine grant amounts for the following year.All reports are handled and processed entirely by email and online. Grant awards are based on the quantity of dog food distributed to their participating food pantries.
Grant funds are administered through a pooled account to offset shared maintenance costs, that would otherwise be incurred, when eligible pantries place orders for donated or salvage dog-food received from your own product-sourcing efforts.