This $149,080 project grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.328 - Food Safety Outreach Program) to Operation Spring Plant Inc., a minority-owned non-profit organization, aims to provide food safety education and training to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in North Carolina. The key activities funded through this 2-year grant include: Educating producers on food safety regulations, safe and healthy food...
This $150,000 Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328) will support a 24-month community outreach project focused on meeting the food safety training needs of underserved, BIPOC, and immigrant farmers in urban and rural areas of Greene County, Missouri. The project will be led by the non-profit organization Springfield Community Gardens and will partner with University of Missouri Extension to provide FSMA Produce...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $299,800 Project Grant to Ourspace World, Inc., a non-profit organization, under the Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328). The grant will fund the "De-Mystifying FSMA: Creating a Food Safety Education and Training Program to Increase Market Access for Black Producers and Chefs in the Mid-Atlantic US" project over a 2-year period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025. The project aims...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded a $546,765 Project Grant to South Carolina State University (SCSU) under the Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328). The 3-year grant aims to provide training and technical assistance to increase the number of socially disadvantaged, beginning, and limited-resource farmers that are Good Agricultural Practices (GAP)-certified and Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) compliant. By targeting these underserved farming populations, the project...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded Tri-County Agricultural Cooperative, a small minority-owned agricultural cooperative in Mississippi, a $630,300 Project Grant under the Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers program (CFDA 10.443). The 3-year grant, awarded on Sep 29, 2023, will fund the delivery of education, training, technical assistance, and research-based information to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, veteran farmers and...
The federal Project Grant award of $600,000 was made on September 15, 2024 by the Institute of Food Production and Sustainability, a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, under the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (CFDA 10.311). The grant recipient, MS MIN Farmers Alliance Inc., is a minority-owned, non-profit organization focused on supporting agricultural development for underserved communities in Mississippi. The grant funding will be used by MS MIN...
This $750,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Advocacy and Outreach under the Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers (CFDA 10.443) program is intended to assist socially disadvantaged and beginning farmers in Mississippi in owning and operating farm businesses, as well as engaging youth in agricultural programs. The grant recipient, SR1 (doing business as Scientific Research), is a minority-owned non-profit...
The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded a $925,000 cooperative agreement to the Mississippi Department of Education from September 30, 2022 to September 30, 2025 under the FNS Food Safety Grants (CFDA 10.585) program. The cooperative agreement will support the Mississippi Department of Education's efforts to increase awareness, visibility, and impact of food safety in USDA nutrition assistance programs in Mississippi. As the parent awardee, the State of Mississippi...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has awarded a $975,000.00 Cooperative Agreement to the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) under the FNS Food Safety Grants program (CFDA 10.585). The purpose of this 3-year award, with a period of performance from September 18, 2023 to September 30, 2026, is to support projects that increase awareness, visibility, and impact of food safety within USDA nutrition assistance programs such as the National School...
SR1 received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328) to develop and provide customized food safety education and outreach from farm to table. The two-year award will fund SR1's Community Oriented Opportunities for Learning Food Safety from Farm to Table project, which aims to build upon existing food safety education and address the specialized needs of socially...