Service Provider & Producer Association Grants
Service Provider & Producer Association Grants support service providers and producer groups with business assistance and organizational development to strengthen Vermont’s working lands economy.
Funder: Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets
Due Dates: November 5, 2026 at 2:00 pm (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $10,000 minimum award, no maximum; up to $225,000 total available for 15-month projects; no match required
Summary: Supports business assistance and producer-association development that strengthen Vermont’s agriculture, food, and forest economy.
Key Information: Out-of-state applicants may qualify only when their proposed project is 100% focused on Vermont’s working landscape and businesses.
Description
The Working Lands Enterprise Initiative, administered by the Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets, supports service providers and producer associations that strengthen Vermont’s working lands businesses. The program invests in business viability, resilience, knowledge, skills, and profitability while expanding access to opportunity, capital, markets, and services.
Eligible business support includes market development, marketing and sales planning, business and financial planning, disaster preparedness, succession planning, access to capital, manufacturing efficiencies, process flow, business research and development, workforce development, and business networking. Producer associations may instead—or additionally—develop their own organizations through strategic planning, leadership transitions, board training, bylaws, committee work, staff recruitment and training, membership outreach, communications capacity, digital member resources, skill exchanges, and collaboration between associations.
