Project Grant 217NMNM7S9026

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded a $39,971,000 Project Grant to the Cnmi Department Of Community And Cultural Affairs for the CNMI Nutrition Assistance program (CFDA #10.539). The grant will support the Nutrition Assistance Program in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The Nutrition Assistance Program provides family nutrition assistance to eligible residents of the CNMI. Specifically, the enhanced NAP...

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded a $7.5 million Formula Grant to the CNMI Department of Community and Cultural Affairs under the Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP) in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands federal grant program (CFDA #10.539). The funding supports the delivery of family nutrition assistance to eligible residents of the CNMI through the Commonwealth's enhanced Nutrition Assistance Program called ENAP. ENAP increases income eligibility...

Federal Grant Award Summary The CNMI Department of Community and Cultural Affairs (DCCA) received a $114,892 Formula Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living under the Special Programs for the Aging, Title III, Part C, Nutrition Services program (CFDA 93.045). Awarded on October 1, 2025, with a completion date of September 30, 2027, this funding supports congregate meal services for older adults in the Northern Mariana Islands. Congregate meals...

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded a $5,435,728 Formula Grant to the CNMI Department of Community and Cultural Affairs under the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer Food Benefits (P-EBT) program. The objective of the P-EBT program is to provide nutrition assistance through EBT cards for school-age children who would have received free or reduced price meals under the National School Lunch Program but were unable to do so due to pandemic-related school closures or...

The Child Nutrition Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded $9.86 million in formula grant funding to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Public School System (CNMI PSS) under the National School Lunch Program (CFDA 10.555) effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. This award provides cash subsidies and USDA Foods to support the delivery of nutritionally balanced, low-cost or no-cost lunches to eligible school children across CNMI PSS's 20 public school...

The Northern Marianas College (NMC) Cooperative Research, Extension, and Education Services (CREES) administers the Northern Mariana Islands Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (NMI EFNEP), funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (CFDA 10.514). This Formula Grant award of $102,806.00, effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2030, delivers nutrition and food resource...

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded $175,537 to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Works Energy Division for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. This was a Formula Grant under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) (CFDA #10.557). The WIC program aims to provide low-income pregnant, breastfeeding and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age five who are...

This $5,892,038 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program (CFDA 10.555) supports the Cnmi Public School System (Cnmi PSS), the official education department responsible for public K-12 schools in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The grant funding enables Cnmi PSS to deliver a range of services, including operating public elementary and secondary schools, providing special education programs, supporting early childhood...

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded a $219,050 Formula Grant to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Public School System under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The grant supports the storage and distribution costs of the Emergency Food Assistance Program in the Northern Mariana Islands through the Commonwealth's Public School System. Specifically, the funding helps supplement the diets of...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Northern Mariana Islands' Department of Community and Cultural Affairs (DCCA) received a $395,610 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026, to administer the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) Program for Children (CFDA 10.646). This award provides funding for DCCA to deliver electronic benefit transfer payments loaded onto EBT cards that eligible low-income...