PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To provide for community-based, local, statewide and national programs which: (1) Coordinate existing private and public food assistance resources to better serve low-income populations, whenever such coordination is determined to be inadequate; (2) assist low-income communities to identify potential sponsors of child nutrition programs and initiate new programs in underserved or unserved areas; and (3) develop innovative approaches at the State and local level to meet the nutritional needs of low-income individuals.

ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. FOOD AND NUTRITION;
- Food and Nutrition for Children;
- Food and Nutrition for Individual and Families;
2. INCOME SECURITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES;
- Nutrition;
- Public Assistance;

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Low Income;

WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- U.S. Territories and possessions (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);