Project Grant 18874445522

This Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, CFDA 10.310, supports the development and evaluation of a digital intervention focused on healthy cooking, parent feeding practices, and child involvement in home food preparation for low-income families. The $909,615.40 grant, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2027, will create a...

This $165,673.54 project grant awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will establish evidence-based food safety and operational practices to make "share tables" more feasible and attractive for schools implementing the National School Lunch Program. The grant recipient, Case Western Reserve University, will conduct qualitative interviews with health inspectors, a quantitative microbial risk...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.310 - Agriculture and Food Research Initiative) provides $750,000 over 5 years to Penn State University to implement an 8-week summer research and career development program. The program will engage 10 undergraduate students annually from non-land grant institutions across the U.S. in experiential research, career exploration, and professional development activities...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), provides $520,450 to Chapman University to implement the "Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Food Science for Underrepresented Populations (SURFFS-UP)" program over a 5-year period from Sep 1, 2024 to Aug 31, 2029. The goal of this program is to provide 30 underrepresented undergraduate students with hands-on...

This $199,951 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Resident Instruction Grants for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas (CFDA 10.308) program supports the University of Puerto Rico at Carolina (UPRCA) in developing an online Farm-to-Table (OLFTT) and online Food Safety (OLFS) certificate program. The project aims to strengthen connections between UPRCA's Food and Beverage Operations Management academic programs and the agricultural sciences, with a focus...

This $294,322 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service's Regional Food System Partnerships program will fund Oregon State University to develop action plans and infrastructure for regional food system development in Oregon through 2023. Working with an existing network of eight local food hubs, OSU will research, train, and plan to identify shared physical and human capital opportunities. This includes infrastructure like trucks and cold storage, as well...

This Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), aims to understand food security challenges faced by people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The $296,784 award to the University of New Hampshire will be used to conduct a formative qualitative study with 30 people with IDD and their family members to explore their...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service awarded Foodshed Cooperative Inc. a $564,500 Project Grant under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program. Foodshed will transition its emergency food distribution operations implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic to a sustainable model increasing retail sales 25% annually. Funding will support planning with Foodshed's farmer network to achieve aggregation goals and improve distribution capacity at its Central San Diego...

This $190,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will fund two one-week workshops in July and August 2024 for a total of 72 K-12 teachers. The workshops will focus on the history and cultural legacy of the Gullah-Geechee people, who are descendants of enslaved Africans in the Lowcountry region of Georgia. In partnership with Gullah-Geechee descendants, scholars, and institutions,...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $100,000.00 from the National Park Service's Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) will support the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), a minority-owned non-profit organization, to document and preserve the oral histories of African American migrant workers at the Worthington Farmstead. The project aims to foster meaningful collaborations with local communities and...