(B) To increase the use of nutrition assist-
ance and anti-poverty programs by such target 
population. 
(C) To bolster food security within such 
target population. 
(D) To assist individuals and families 
within such target population to develop assets. 
(E) To promote the economic independence 
of individuals and families within such target 
population. 
(F) To improve the nutrition of such tar-
get population. 
(G) To reduce the occurrence of obesity in 
such target population. 
(2) COMMUNITY FOOD COUNCIL.—A community 
food council component that describes the formation 
and operation of a community food council designed 
to engage emergency feeding groups, Federal, State, 
and local government agencies, the cooperative ex-
tension system, land-grant colleges and universities, 
and historically African-American, Hispanic, and 
American Indian educational institutes for the pur-
poses described under paragraph (1). 
(3) SUBGRANTS
COMPONENT.—A subgrants 
component that describes a plan for the allocation of 
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grants funds to subgrantees by the primary commu-
nity-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger group, 
in accordance with subsection (e). 
(d) CRITERIA.—In evaluating an application of a 
community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger 
group, the Secretary shall consider, in addition to such 
other criteria as the Secretary determines appropriate, the 
extent to which the application of the group demonstrates 
the following: 
(1) The capacity to serve as a leader for other 
community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger 
groups in the pilot community and to successfully 
provide technical assistance and other assistance to 
the greatest number of such groups. 
(2) Successful experience— 
(A) in conducting a program described in 
section 204(b); 
(B) in working with a national service, 
community service, or volunteer service group 
that conducts a program described in section 
204(b); 
(C) in managing and using Federal grant 
funds, including grants for community food and 
nutrition programs authorized under section 
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681(a) of the Community Services Block Grant 
Act (42 U.S.C. 9922(a)); 
(D) in working cooperatively with a nutri-
tion assistance and anti-poverty program, other 
community-based nonprofit feeding and anti- 
hunger groups, and faith-based and other com-
munity programs in the pilot community; and 
(E) in researching, monitoring, and evalu-
ating the hunger problems in the pilot commu-
nity of such organization and nutrition assist-
ance and anti-poverty programs. 
(3) In the case of a community-based nonprofit 
feeding and anti-hunger group with a large budget, 
the existence of a financial mechanism to implement 
the proposal and staff expertise to handle large Fed-
eral and private grants, or in the case of a commu-
nity-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger group 
with a small budget, proven effectiveness in the de-
livery and coordination of a program described in 
section 204(b). 
(4) The ability to influence other community, 
government, and private resources to assist in the 
creation and implementation of the pilot program in 
the pilot community of the community-based non-
profit feeding and anti-hunger group. 
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(e) SUBGRANTS.— 
(1) SELECTION BY PRIMARY COMMUNITY-BASED 
NONPROFIT FEEDING AND ANTI-HUNGER GROUP RE-
QUIRED.—Under the pilot program, the Secretary 
shall require a primary community-based nonprofit 
feeding and anti-hunger group that is awarded a 
grant under subsection (a) to select at least 10, but 
no more than 200, subgrantees to carry out sub-
grants under the grants. Such subgrants shall be 
used in support of the pilot program in the pilot 
community of such group, in accordance with section 
204. 
(2) SELECTION OF SUBGRANTEES.—A primary 
community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger 
group shall select subgrantees for purposes of para-
graph (1)— 
(A) by selecting the subgrantee in the ap-
plication submitted under subsection (b); or 
(B) in consultation with the Secretary of 
Agriculture after evaluating proposals sub-
mitted by subgrantee applicants. 
SEC. 204. USES OF GRANTS. 
(a) REQUIRED USES
BY PRIMARY COMMUNITY- 
BASED
NONPROFIT
FEEDING
AND
ANTI-HUNGER 
GROUPS.—A primary community-based nonprofit feeding 
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and anti-hunger group that is awarded a grant under sec-
tion 203(a) shall— 
(1) allocate at least 60 percent of the grant for 
subgrants in accordance with section 203(e); and 
(2) spend at least 5 percent of the grant on 
evaluation of the pilot program in the pilot commu-
nity of such group. 
(b) ELIGIBLE USES BY PRIMARY COMMUNITY-BASED 
NONPROFIT FEEDING AND ANTI-HUNGER GROUPS AND 
SUBGRANTEES.—Grant funds awarded to a primary com-
munity-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger group or 
allocated to a subgrantee under the pilot program may be 
used for any of the following purposes: 
(1) ELIGIBLE PROGRAMS.—With respect to a 
target population in a pilot community, any of the 
following programs: 
(A) A program that informs such popu-
lation about benefits under nutrition assistance 
and anti-poverty programs, pre-screens mem-
bers of such population to determine the eligi-
bility of such members to receive such benefits, 
and assists such members to access relevant 
benefits. 
(B) A program to assist such population to 
transition successfully from welfare to work. 
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(C) A program that is likely to result in 
job creation or that involves job training, readi-
ness, placement, or retention activities. 
(D) A program to increase the supply of 
donated foods to community-based nonprofit 
feeding and anti-hunger groups, especially of 
fresh fruits, vegetables, and other nutritious 
foods. 
(E) A program that increases the access of 
such population to fresh fruits, vegetables, and 
other nutritious foods. 
(F) A program that promotes the use of 
farmers’ markets, urban farms, and food-pro-
ducing agriculture projects, especially a pro-
gram that promotes the use of such markets, 
farms, and projects by nutrition assistance and 
anti-poverty programs. 
(G) A program to assess the flow of food, 
from production through consumption, in a 
community. 
(H) A program that involves nutrition edu-
cation, obesity reduction, or financial manage-
ment activities, especially such activities that 
have hands-on demonstrations or that promote 
physical activity. 
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(I) A program that promotes microenter-
prise and small business development, especially 
the development of such a business that is food- 
related. 
(J) A program that assists government 
agencies and nonprofit groups to increase the 
number of sites (and participation in existing 
sites) for after-school snacks and meals pro-
grams under the summer food service program 
for children authorized under section 13 of the 
Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1766) and the child and adult care 
food program authorized under section 17 of 
such Act (42 U.S.C. 1761). 
(K) A program that creates a customer ad-
visory council at a community-based nonprofit 
feeding and anti-hunger group to enable an in-
dividual who obtains food from such group to 
consult with the council on ways to improve the 
operations of such group. 
(L) A program to increase the assistance 
of national and community service programs, 
including AmeriCorps, Volunteers in Service to 
America 
(AmeriCorps–VISTA), 
Learn 
and 
Serve America, Senior Corps, Freedom Corps, 
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and any other volunteer program to aid commu-
nity-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger 
groups. 
(M) A program to increase the involvement 
of volunteers who have professional skills with 
community-based nonprofit feeding and anti- 
hunger groups and other nonprofit groups. 
(N) A program that relates nutrition im-
provement and the problem of hunger within 
such population to broader issues within the 
pilot community, including community develop-
ment and economic improvement. 
(O) A program that promotes the use of 
individual development accounts, as defined in 
section 404(5) of the Assets for Independence 
Act (title IV of Public Law 105–285; 42 U.S.C. 
604 note), or any other such asset-development 
program. 
(P) With respect to a community-based 
nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger group, a pro-
gram to— 
(i) provide technical assistance to such 
group to increase the technical capacities 
of such group; or 
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(ii) enable the group to more effi-
ciently and effectively use computer tech-
nology, recruit volunteers, write grants, or 
otherwise increase the fundraising and op-
eration of such group. 
(Q) A program that provides for the provi-
sion of technical assistance and informational 
materials on the Internet that relate to any pro-
gram described in subparagraphs (A) through 
(P). 
(R) A program to coordinate activities of 
community-based nonprofit feeding and anti- 
hunger groups within the pilot community, in-
cluding activities that further any of the fol-
lowing goals: 
(i) Creation of joint advertising, com-
munications, and referral systems. 
(ii) Coordination of hours of oper-
ations and services provided. 
(iii) Creation of joint client, funding, 
and other databases, tracking systems, and 
benefits referral systems. 
(iv) Implementation of joint activities 
to reduce hunger, strengthen local food 
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systems, reduce poverty, improve economic 
self-sufficiency, and reduce obesity. 
(2) ELIGIBLE
FOOD-RELATED
USES.—Subject 
to the limitation in subsection (c)(1), any of the fol-
lowing food-related purposes: 
(A) Gathering food. 
(B) The collection of perishable, but safe, 
food from entities such as restaurants, caterers, 
and farms, for distribution to a target popu-
lation. 
(C) Packing food. 
(D) Sorting food. 
(E) Processing food. 
(F) Transportation of food. 
(G) Heating, cooling, or freezing of food. 
(H) Storage of food. 
(I) Administrative expenses necessary to 
increase the supply of nutritious food (especially 
fresh fruit and vegetables) distributed by com-
munity-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger 
groups. 
(J) Administrative staff and volunteer 
management for purposes of performing activi-
ties listed in subparagraphs (A) through (H). 
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(3) ELIGIBLE STIPENDS.—For the provision of 
stipends to customers for expenses incurred by such 
customers for participating in a customer advisory 
council described in subsection (b)(1)(K). 
(c) LIMITATIONS.— 
(1) LIMITATION
ON
FOOD
PURCHASES.—No 
more than 20 percent of the total amount of grant 
funds awarded to a primary community-based non-
profit feeding and anti-hunger group or allocated to 
a subgrantee under the pilot program may be used 
to directly purchase food. 
(2) LIMITATION ON FUNDS EXPENDED TO NA-
TIONAL OR COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAM.—Grant 
funds awarded to a primary community-based non-
profit feeding and anti-hunger group or allocated to 
a subgrantee under the pilot program may not be 
used to provide a volunteer in a national or commu-
nity service program listed in subsection (b)(1)(L) 
with any educational funding, stipend, health care, 
or child care. 
SEC. 205. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE. 
(a) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS.—Under the 
pilot program and for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall 
award grants to technical assistance community-based 
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nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger groups, in accordance 
with this section. 
(b) APPLICATION
FOR
TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE 
GRANTS.—To be eligible for an award of a grant under 
this section, a technical assistance community-based non-
profit feeding and anti-hunger group shall submit to the 
Secretary an application containing a description of how 
the applicant proposes to use the grant funds to provide 
technical assistance to all pilot communities. The applica-
tion shall be submitted in such form, at such time, and 
containing such other information as the Secretary may 
require. 
(c) CRITERIA TO RECEIVE GRANTS.—In evaluating 
an application of a technical assistance community-based 
nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger group, the Secretary 
shall consider, in addition to such other criteria as the 
Secretary determines appropriate, the extent to which the 
application of the technical assistance group demonstrates 
the following: 
(1) The ability to provide capacity-building 
technical assistance to community-based nonprofit 
feeding and anti-hunger groups. 
(2) Organizational and staff experience in— 
(A) national issues related to emergency 
food programs, food banks, food rescue organi-
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zations, the hunger problem, food insecurity, 
anti-poverty programs, and nutrition education; 
(B) providing technical assistance to com-
munity-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger 
groups and conducting outreach programs on 
nutrition assistance and anti-poverty programs; 
(C) successfully working with national and 
community service programs, including such 
programs listed in section 204(b)(1)(L); 
(D) working cooperatively or in a leader-
ship role with other national, regional, State, 
and local eligible technical entities; and 
(E) working with a wide variety of faith- 
based and community organizations and with 
community-wide religious and civic organiza-
tions. 
(3) Proven financial control mechanisms and 
staff expertise to work with large Federal and pri-
vate grants, or in the case of a technical assistance 
community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger 
group with a small operating budget, effectiveness in 
program delivery and coordination. 
(d) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TECHNICAL AS-
SISTANCE AUTHORIZED.— 
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(1) ASSISTANCE FROM DEPARTMENT OF AGRI-
CULTURE.—The Secretary may provide technical 
and evaluation assistance to— 
(A) a technical assistance community- 
based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger group 
awarded a grant under subsection (a); 
(B) a primary community-based nonprofit 
feeding and anti-hunger group awarded a grant 
under section 203(a) or a subgrantee selected 
under section 203(e); or 
(C) any community-based nonprofit feed-
ing and anti-hunger group or technical assist-
ance community-based nonprofit feeding and 
anti-hunger group that does not receive a grant 
under this Act, but that carries out activities 
similar to those of such a group or subgrantee. 
(2) ASSISTANCE FROM FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS 
AND AGENCIES.—The head of any Federal depart-
ment or agency may provide technical assistance to 
a group or subgrantee referred to in subparagraph 
(A), (B), or (C) of paragraph (1) to carry out activi-
ties described in subparagraph (C) of such para-
graph. 
(3) ASSISTANCE
FROM
STATE
AND
LOCAL 
AGENCIES AND LAND-GRANT COLLEGES AND UNI-
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VERSITIES.—The Secretary may encourage any ap-
propriate State or local agency or land-grant college 
or university to provide technical assistance to such 
groups or subgrantees to carry out such activities. 
SEC. 206. ALLOCATION OF GRANTS. 
(a) ALLOCATION
BY TYPE
OF GRANT.—Of the 
amounts made available to carry out this title for a fiscal 
year— 
(1) $190,000,000 is available for grants to pri-
mary community-based nonprofit feeding and anti- 
hunger groups authorized under section 203(a); and 
(2) $8,000,000 is available for technical assist-
ance grants authorized under section 205(a). 
(b) ALLOCATION TO PILOT COMMUNITIES.—Of the 
amounts made available under subsection (a)(1) to pri-
mary community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger 
groups for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall allocate such 
amounts to one primary community-based nonprofit feed-
ing and anti-hunger group in each of the pilot commu-
nities listed in subsection (c) and may allocate such 
amounts to one such group in each pilot community des-
ignated by the Secretary under subsection (d)(2). The 
amount allocated to a primary community-based nonprofit 
feeding and anti-hunger group— 
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(1) shall not be less than $500,000, nor more 
than $20,000,000; and 
(2) shall be in proportion to the number of indi-
viduals and families within the target population of 
the pilot community involved. 
(c) PILOT COMMUNITIES LISTED.—For purposes of 
subsection (b), a pilot community listed in this subsection 
is each of the following areas: 
(1) New York, New York. 
(2) Chicago, Illinois. 
(3) Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 
(4) Puerto Rico. 
(5) Indianapolis, Indiana. 
(6) Des Moines, Iowa. 
(7) Toledo, Ohio. 
(8) Savannah, Georgia. 
(9) New Haven, Connecticut. 
(10) Roanoke, Virginia. 
(11) Santa Cruz County, Santa Clara County, 
and Monterey County in California. 
(12) Onondaga County in New York. 
(13) The rural boroughs in Alaska. 
(14) Washington metropolitan region. 
(15) Pittsburgh and the suburban and rural 
areas in southwestern Pennsylvania. 
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(16) Rural counties in eastern Kentucky. 
(17) Counties in northern West Virginia. 
(18) Rural counties in southern Texas. 
(19) Rural counties in southern Missouri. 
(20) Rural counties in north, west, and central 
Wisconsin. 
(d) SPECIFICATION OF AREAS; DESIGNATION OF AD-
DITIONAL PILOT COMMUNITIES.— 
(1) SPECIFICATION OF AREAS.—The Secretary 
shall specify the counties or other areas to be in-
cluded in each of the pilot communities described in 
paragraphs (15) through (20) of subsection (c). 
(2) DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL PILOT COM-
MUNITIES.—The Secretary may designate not more 
than 10 pilot communities in addition to those listed 
in subsection (c). 
SEC. 207. REPORTS AND EVALUATION. 
(a) SUBGRANTEE REPORT TO PRIMARY COMMUNITY- 
BASED
NONPROFIT
FEEDING
AND
ANTI-HUNGER 
GROUP.—Not later than 90 days after the end of the fiscal 
year for which a subgrantee received a subgrant under sec-
tion 203(e), the subgrantee shall submit to the primary 
community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger group 
that selected the subgrantee under such section a report 
that evaluates the results of the activities, including finan-
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cial expenditures, during such fiscal year of the subgrantee 
in carrying out the subgrant. 
(b) PRIMARY COMMUNITY-BASED NONPROFIT FEED-
ING
AND
ANTI-HUNGER
GROUP
REPORTS
TO
SEC-
RETARY.—Not later than 180 days after the end of the 
fiscal year for which a primary community-based nonprofit 
feeding and anti-hunger group received a grant under sec-
tion 203(a), the group shall submit to the Secretary a re-
port that evaluates the results of the activities, including 
financial expenditures, during the preceding fiscal year of 
the group in carrying out the grant. Such report shall in-
clude each report submitted to the group by a subgrantee 
under subsection (a) for such fiscal year. 
(c) ANNUAL REPORTS
TO CONGRESS.—Not later 
than October 31 of each of calendar years 2014 through 
2018, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on 
the progress of the pilot program. 
(d) FINAL REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 
April 30, 2018, the Secretary shall submit to Congress 
a report that evaluates the successes and challenges of the 
pilot program and that makes such recommendations as 
the Secretary considers appropriate for similar future 
grants programs. 
SEC. 208. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS. 
(a) ONE YEAR EXTENSION OF GRANTS.— 
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