Grants
The New Mexico Farmers' Marketing Association has funding available for member farmers' and growers' markets. The three basic types of grants are: 1) Advertising/Promotional Grants; 2) New Market/Second-Year Grants; and, 3) Capacity Building Grants. Please read the grant guidelines and submit the required applications.
| Date | What Is Due | From Whom |
| 1-May | Membership Form | All markets |
| Information About Your Market (day, time, location, contact) | All markets | |
| Estimating Your Promotional Dollars form | Markets Requesting Advertising/Promotional Grants | |
| New Market/Second-Year Grant form | New or second year markets requesting grant funding | |
| Capacity Building Grants form | Markets Requesting Capacity Building Grants | |
| Marketing Plan | Any Markets Requesting funding | |
| Organizational Budget | Any Markets Requesting funding | |
| 1-Aug | First installment of invoices for advertising/promotional funding reimbursement | Markets who applied for Advertising/Promotional Grant funding |
| 1-Nov | Market data on annual customers, sales and vendors | All markets |
| Second and final installment of invoices for advertising/promotional reimbursement | Markets who applied for Advertising/Promotional Grant funding | |
| Capacity-building grant invoices for reimbursement | Markets that received Capacity Building Grants | |
| Capacity grant evaluation forms | Markets that received Capacity Building Grants |
1. Please complete the required application(s) via the on-line form by May 1st.
2. Send your marketing plan and organizational budget to dmiller@farmersmarketsnm.org. For help, download How to Write a Marketing Plan here.
3. We will email you a copy of your application to let you know that we received it.
Please remember to return your market data form to us by November 1st. Markets that do not submit market data will not be eligible for grants in the following year. To submit your market data, download and fill in the form and email to dmiller@farmersmarketsnm.org. Be sure to save a copy for your records.
For more information about our programs, please call NMFMA at 888-983-4400, or email us at dmiller@farmersmarketsnm.org.
