USDA Rural Development · Sanitation
Composting and Food Waste Reduction (CFWR) Pilot Program
Cooperative agreements for municipal pilot projects that develop and test composting and food-waste-reduction systems. Eligible projects include drop-off composting, organics curbside collection, anaerobic digestion of food waste, and food-recovery network coordination.
Whether your city can win this comes down to hard rules — population, designation, match capacity. Run your city and our AI checks it against the rules below in about 8 minutes.
Program facts
- Typical award
- $45K – $2M
- Non-federal match
- 25% (verify basis)
- Eligible entity
- U.S. cities & local governments
- Application window
- Annual; usually spring.
- Typical prep time
- 6–14 weeks
- Statutory authority
- 2018 Farm Bill §12502
Who is eligible for Composting and Food Waste Reduction (CFWR) Pilot Program?
These are the hard rules we check against. If one fails, the program is ineligible — the AI never overrides a rule.
- Cities are eligible applicants.
Open to local governments and tribal entities; nonprofit and university partners common. Amounts and timing approximate; verify directly with administering agency.
How Strategic Pursuit scores this program
Run a city dossier and our AI cross-checks ACS demographics, 5-year USAspending award history, FEMA disaster history, and CEJST/Justice40 + HUD designations against this program's rules. You get a clear eligibility, strategic, and competitive answer — with the city's own hard evidence ready to anchor the narrative — instead of a generic match badge. And if it's a no-go, you'll know before you spend the month.
The dossier isn't the AI's guesswork — eligibility is decided by the rules, and the numbers come straight from official sources. The answer your reviewer will check line by line.
No credit card. 30-day trial, 3 dossiers, 1 seat.
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Award ranges, match percentages, and windows are approximate.