This $920,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) under the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (CFDA 10.331) will support a 2-year initiative led by D'Youville College in Buffalo, New York. The project aims to enhance the accessibility and affordability of healthy, local produce in Buffalo and surrounding Erie County communities, while simultaneously expanding the market for local food producers. The primary...
This Project Grant award for $483,589.00, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition under the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP, CFDA 10.331), will fund the NY FRESH RX program. This multi-year collaborative project between Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County, Harmony Healthcare Long Island, and Hofstra University will provide a 6-month home-delivered CSA-style produce prescription to 350 low-income, food-insecure...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture is providing a $472,139.50 Project Grant award under the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (CFDA 10.331) to the University of Virginia (UVA) Health Children's system. The grant will fund UVA's implementation of a "Fresh Farmacy" prescription produce program, which will source fresh fruits and vegetables from local farmers and provide them to 100 food-insecure families cared for at UVA Health...
This Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) under the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) CFDA 10.331 provides $480,440.00 to Shalom Farms, Inc. to implement a 3-year produce prescription program. Over the 3-year period, the program will serve 3 cohorts of 20 participants each year, providing 12 weeks of active programming followed by 12 weeks of sustained management, coaching, peer support,...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) under the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) CFDA 10.331 provides $479,723 to Boulder County Public Health (BCPH) to implement a Produce Prescription Program (PPR) in partnership with Adams County Health Department (ACHD) and Clinica Family Health. The key products and services to be delivered under this 24-month grant, running from September 1,...
This federal Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (CFDA 10.331) provides $479,785 to the Fund for Public Health in New York, Inc. for the "Más Verduras (More Vegetables)" program. The program will provide $100-$150 per month for 12 months to low-income participants with uncontrolled diabetes who are enrolled in Medicare and screen positive for food...
The DC Greens' Produce Rx Initiative is a $480,441 project grant awarded by the Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition under the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (CFDA 10.331). The project is designed to address food insecurity, poverty, and diet-related chronic diseases among Medicaid patients in Washington, D.C.'s lower-income communities. Over two years, the funding will enable DC Greens to enroll 1,200 new Medicaid recipients as Produce Rx participants, who will receive up to...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $5,704,380, was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (CFDA 10.331). The grant will fund a two-year nutrition incentive project by Produce Perks Midwest Inc., a non-profit organization, aimed at developing equitable approaches to expand the impact of Produce Perks, Ohio's SNAP-matching nutrition incentive program. The project goals include...
This four-year project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) provides $969,890 to the University of Connecticut to deliver a multi-level intervention combining personalized nutrition education, digital food and nutrition literacy tools, and community collaboration efforts to improve diet quality and decrease chronic disease risk factors among low-income...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $2,182,270 Project Grant under the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (CFDA 10.331) to the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, a non-profit organization. The grant will fund the "WNC FARM FRESH DOUBLE SNAP NETWORK" project, which aims to improve food security and access to local food in the Western North Carolina region by: Implementing double SNAP incentives across 38 firms to...