Project Grant 19DG11083150002

The Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA) was awarded a $936,919.75 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP). The grant will support CFSA in increasing the organizational capacity of seven partnering food hubs and the farmers they work with through implementing quality management systems, standard operating procedures, food safety plans, and direct technical assistance...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Cooperative Extension Service (CFDA 10.500) program provides $500,000 to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, in partnership with the Association of 1890 Research Directors, to organize four regional conferences. These conferences will highlight career opportunities in food and agricultural sciences, connecting students receiving...

The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund Inc. will receive $750,000 through a three-year Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to cooperatively mentor new and beginning farmers and ranchers in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina for regional markets. The grant funds the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (BFRDP), which aims to help beginning farmers and ranchers enter and...

This $1,611,745 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), focuses on enabling "Factory-to-Factory (F2F) Networking for Future Manufacturing" in South Carolina and West Virginia. The project, led by Clemson University, aims to advance smart manufacturing technologies and build a skilled workforce by fusing expertise in manufacturing processes with emerging hardware and software innovations such as...

The West Georgia Farmers Cooperative (WGFC) was awarded a $463,298 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) to expand its food hub distribution services. WGFC, an agricultural cooperative founded in 1966 serving rural West Georgia and Atlanta, will utilize the funding to attract new business and nonprofit clients, create value-added products from fresh fruits, vegetables and seafood,...

The Department of Agriculture Office of Advocacy and Outreach awarded $750,000 to Florida A&M University through the Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers program (CFDA 10.443) on September 29, 2022. The three-year project grant will support Florida A&M University's efforts to help suppress the migrations of socially underserved, minority, veterans, and farmers and ranchers (SUMVFRs) in Florida from agriculture. The University will work to...

The Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI-USA) received a $192,816 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP). RAFI-USA will develop eight new Community Supported Agriculture partnerships between small-scale farmers from its Farmers of Color Network and North Carolina churches over two years. Each partnership will create a direct producer-to-consumer market...

The Agricultural Institute of Marin was awarded $844,515.25 under a Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service's Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) to strengthen regional mobile farmers market (MFM) service in Northern California from September 2021 through September 2024. Specifically, AIM will leverage its experience operating MFMs in the Bay Area along with sub-awardee Fresh Approach to expand MFM areas served across Northern...

Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU), in partnership with Backbone Organization Collaboratory, will use a $45.7 million Project Grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA) to accelerate credential attainment and job placement in four leading local industries to support Southwest Florida's economy. Under the EDA's Economic Adjustment Assistance program, FGCU will recruit rural, Black, and Hispanic job seekers into pipelines with industry-recognized...

The Catawba Farm and Food Coalition was awarded $451,017.12 under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) Project Grant by the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service. The grant period runs from September 30, 2022 to September 29, 2025. Funding will support the expansion of the Coalition's online and brick-and-mortar farmers markets, as well as a new mobile fresh food market, to increase sales opportunities for local South Carolina farmers....