Cooperative Agreement 23RFSIUT0042

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded a $955,364 Formula Grant to the Utah State Board of Education on September 30, 2022 through the Farm to School State Formula Grant program (CFDA 10.645). The grant will support Utah's farm to school program through September 30, 2026 by further strengthening food and agriculture supply chain resiliency in accordance with section 1001(b)(4) of the American Rescue Plan. A sub-award of $23,000 was provided to Utah State University...

The International Rescue Committee in Salt Lake City, Utah will receive $632,419 through September 2025 under a Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service. The grant funding will support the IRC's "New American Farmers and Culinary Entrepreneurs Cultivating Local Value-Chains in Utah" project. The project aims to increase revenues and market options for local farmers and value-added food producers through cultivating local food supply chains in...

This Project Grant award from the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service provided $335,090 to the Utah State Board of Education under the Child Nutrition Discretionary Grants Limited Availability (CFDA 10.579) federal grant program. The funding supports the purchase of equipment valued at over $1,000 needed to serve healthier meals and improve food safety and sanitation in school meal programs, as administered through eight sub-awards of approximately $42,000 each to individual...

This federal Project Grant award of $3,768,853.00 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (CFDA 10.582) is intended to assist the Utah State Board of Education in providing free fresh fruits and vegetables to elementary schools across the state with high percentages of students receiving free or reduced-price meals. The funding will cover the one-year grant period from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024. As the prime grantee, the Utah State Board of...

The Utah Department of Agriculture will receive $489,662.58 from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service under the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program - Farm Bill (CFDA 10.170) from September 30, 2021 through September 29, 2025. Funding will support efforts to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops in Utah through activities such as marketing and promotion, research and development relevant to specialty crops, and addressing challenges facing specialty crop producers. The Department...

This federal Project Grant award is provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service through the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (CFDA 10.582). The grant, totaling $3,460,675.00 and awarded on October 1, 2024, is designed to improve nutrition among elementary school students in economically disadvantaged communities by providing cash grants to the Utah State Board of Education to distribute free fresh fruits and vegetables to eligible schools. As the primary...

The Department of Public Safety State of Utah received a $402,164.48 Project Grant award from the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the BRIC: Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program (CFDA #97.047) for the period of September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. The grant will support hazard mitigation activities that reduce risks from natural disasters by making infrastructure and communities more resilient. As the awardee, the Department of Public Safety State of Utah will...

This $440,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720) will support the Utah Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry, Fire, & State Lands in developing new and updating existing community wildfire protection plans (CWPPs) over a 5-year period ending June 30, 2028. Additionally, the funding will enable the Division to conduct...

The Utah Department of Agriculture has been awarded a $383,754.88 Specialty Crop Block Grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service (CFDA 10.170 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program - Farm Bill). The purpose of this 3-year grant is to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops in Utah through a variety of activities, including marketing and promotion efforts, assisting producers with research and development, expanding availability and access to specialty crops,...

This $599,463 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research to define and characterize the infrastructure of U.S. food systems. The project, awarded to the University of Washington, aims to develop a shared vision of food systems infrastructure to identify the biggest challenges and most promising solutions. The first phase will define and describe food systems infrastructure, the second...