Danone Institute North America announces two requests for proposals, the Sustainable Food Systems Initiative and the SFSI Focus on Food, which is co-funded by the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR)

The Proposal Period for 2025-2027 will be open until February 14th, 2025.

The Danone Institute North America is a nonprofit foundation which fosters transdisciplinary community-based work to promote sustainable food systems in the US and Canada. It was founded by and is funded in part by Danone North America, the purpose-driven food and beverage leader and a certified B Corp.

The DINA Sustainable Food Systems Initiative (SFSI) is a competitive program that will select and fund up to five transdisciplinary teams in 2025 to design, implement and evaluate actionable community-based projects on community-based food systems that contribute to the nutritional health of populations.

The DINA Sustainable Food Systems Initiative (SFSI) Focus on Food is a competitive program co-funded by the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) that will select and fund up to three US or Canadian-based transdisciplinary teams in 2025 to support innovative, actionable North America-focused food supply initiatives to promote food systems that reflect the interconnectivity of community, health of people, and health of the planet.