Project Grant 20203380033131

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities, under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $299,000 to the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) to build equitable university-community research collaborations on Chicago's South Side. The key products and services to be delivered under this 2.5-year grant include: Formalizing a partnership between UIC's Earth and Environmental Sciences Department and the Urban Growers...

The National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) awarded a $343,405 Project Grant to The Ecology School, a non-profit organization in Saco, Maine, under the USDA's Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (UAIP) grant program (CFDA 10.935). The funding will enable The Ecology School to establish community gardens, develop composting infrastructure, create food waste diversion programs, and implement urban farming techniques in underserved communities. The project aims to increase food...

The Greater Newark Conservancy will use a $707,289.98 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to establish two community farmer's markets and expand local farm stand operations in Newark, New Jersey. Under the Community Food Projects grant program, the Conservancy will partner with local organizations to alleviate constraints inhibiting economic interaction between low-income consumers and producers. Key deliverables include establishing...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants (SPECA) program to Growing Gardens, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in Portland, OR. The award will fund a partnership between Growing Gardens and Zenger Farm to promote agricultural education, curriculum development, and youth leadership development focused on food systems...

The Metro Atlanta Urban Farm LLC in College Park, Georgia will receive $299,889.24 through December 31, 2025 to improve access to local foods in underserved communities through urban and innovative agriculture practices. Funded by the US Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service under the Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production federal grant program (CFDA 10.935), the project will support community farms, urban gardens, and emerging technologies. The two-year...

Ecolibrium3 was awarded a $690,618 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program. The grant will support Ecolibrium3's "LNPK 156: An Integrated Approach to Food Access for an EJ Neighborhood" project from November 1, 2022 to October 31, 2025. The project aims to bring together stakeholders across the food system in Duluth, Minnesota to address food access and security issues...

This $363,385 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research to measure ecosystem services from urban agriculture. The key objectives are to: Quantify nutrient recycling, carbon sequestration, and cooling effects of different compost inputs and irrigation practices on urban farm soils through a long-term experiment. Extend this research to measure nutrient budgets and fate of compost-derived nutrients across multiple...

The University of Michigan was awarded a $262,500 Project Grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, US Department of Agriculture, under the Higher Education National Needs Graduate Fellowship Grants program. The grant will fund the Transformative Food Systems Fellows pilot program to prepare underrepresented students for careers transforming inequitable and unsustainable food systems. The program aims to launch an innovative cross-disciplinary Master's in Transformative Food...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports the "REU SITE: COMMUNITY-SOIL-AIR-WATER: A GEOSCIENCE LEARNING ECOSYSTEM FOR URBAN ENVIRONMENTS" program at Georgia State University. The $393,759 award will train 10 undergraduate students each summer in community-based geoscience research, focusing on themes of community, soil, air, and water in urban environments. The program will integrate the undergraduate students into a...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $220,050 Project Grant to Rutgers, The State University under the USDA's Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program (CFDA 10.522). The 2-year grant, running from September 2023 to September 2025, will support the "The Farmpreneurs: Empowering Student Leaders to Increase Food Knowledge and Food Security in Their Urban Communities" project. Through this initiative, Rutgers will provide...