DUFB provides SNAP recipients with a match of their SNAP dollars to spend at participating farmers markets. SNAP participants will come to your farmers market information booth to redeem SNAP dollars for tokens or script.

At that time, you will ask if they would like to double their SNAP dollars by receiving DUFB tokens as well.

Anyone receiving SNAP benefits is automatically eligible to participate in the DUFB program. However, availability and accessibility of DUFB locally depends on whether markets are approved by USDA-FNS to accept SNAP benefits.

While SNAP dollars can purchase fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy products, baked goods, snacks, nonalcoholic beverages, and seeds and plants, the eligible items for DUFB are somewhat different. Double Up Food Bucks dollars can purchase fruits, vegetables, and herbs.

The Idaho Farmers Market Association provides member markets with matching funds (when available through grant funds) on an annual basis. Requests are made to IFMA on an annual basis using the button above, or by emailing info@idahofma.org. In exchange for the funds, market are asked to track their SNAP and DUFB redemptions and sales.

Some cities and municipalities have also funded DUFB for their local farmers markets. Contact your local city to see if there are opportunities for partnership! The Idaho Farmers Market Association would be happy to support you in advocating for sustainable funding through your city.

The Idaho Farmers Market Association receives a limited amount of funding through various grants, and we work hard to distribute it fairly among markets that do not have another source for their DUFB match funds. Some markets have community donations, a local partner who funds the match, etc. We will look at your previous SNAP and DUFB transactions to determine how much DUFB match your market is eligible for… this is why accurate reporting is so important.

Double Up Food Bucks matches are limited to $20 per market visit. That means if a participant takes $20 off their EBT card, they receive another $20 to spend on fruits and vegetables at your market!

Idaho Farmers Market Association will provide wooden Double Up tokens to all member markets, worth $1 each. There are two suggested ways to handle your tokens for accurate accounting:

• Separate Stash System: Keep “new” and “spent” tokens separate – in other words, distribute tokens to customers out of one bag, and put tokens turned in from vendors into a separate bag. The “new” stash should always have the number of tokens you started with minus how many you have distributed to customers. The “spent” stash should always have the number of tokens turned in from vendors. You can count your tokens and verify this at any time. This system works well for lower‐volume markets.

• One Stash System: Keep all tokens in one stash. With this system, you should count/verify the number of tokens you have at the start of each market day and at the end of the market day. The end count should equal the starting count minus the tokens distributed to customers plus the tokens redeemed by vendors (END = START - DISTRIBUTED + REDEEMED).

Monthly reports are a way for you to provide real‐time information to the Double Up team which allows us to:

• Provide you funds upfront to cover your vendor redemption for Double Up

• Share real‐time data with you, other partners including funders, and policy makers

• Keep abreast of any increased need in your community and meet requests for additional funds to support Double Up

• Reinforce the importance of regular record-keeping during the season

Each month, you will report Double Up activity by completing an online report through the Double Up Food Bucks Reporting Portal. Market managers can access the portal at http://data.doubleupfoodbucks.org/. Each market in Idaho has its own login (usually the manager’s email address) and unique password. If you lose your username or password, IFMA can look it up for you.

If your organization is responsible for more than one market or direct marketing site, a separate report will need to be submitted for each location.

• Reporting is due monthly at http://data.doubleupfoodbucks.org/.

• All of the information you need to enter is from either your Customer Transaction Record totals or your Vendor Redemption and Reimbursement Record sheet. If you fill out the record sheets completely as you implement the program, submitting your quarterly report should only require copying the recorded totals to the survey.

• All Double Up numbers reported should be EVEN. Double Up tokens are in $1 increments, so all markets using tokens should be reporting Double Up distributed, redeemed, and reimbursed using even dollar amounts.

• Markets need to complete a quarterly survey for each quarter the market is open. Data will be entered by month according to the calendar month.

• Markets that operate at multiple locations will complete a report for each location separately.