Project Grant 228NY200S8303

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service awarded a $1,974,400 Project Grant to the District of Columbia Government DHS/Office of the Director Division (operating as the RSA Randolph-Sheppard Blind Vending Program) through the SNAP Partnership Grant program (CFDA 10.577). The grant, effective from September 26, 2023 to September 30, 2025, will fund the establishment of interstate data exchange capabilities to enhance longitudinal research and improve administration of the...

This Project Grant award of $696,606.00 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will fund a 5-year study on smartphone-based location tracking (SLT) used by parents to monitor their teenage children. The study aims to: (1) characterize how and why parents use SLT, (2) estimate the impacts of SLT on teen adjustment and family functioning, (3) evaluate...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $681,159 to Drexel University to conduct a 5-year longitudinal study on the development of loneliness and social isolation among autistic young adults aged 18-30. The study aims to characterize the trajectories of loneliness and social isolation associated with significant life transitions,...

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded a $1,567,943 cooperative agreement to the Association of Community College Trustees to support the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment and Training (E&T) Data and Technical Assistance Grants program. This three-year cooperative agreement, awarded September 30, 2022 and set to be completed by September 30, 2025, will provide support to state agencies in developing their capacity to collect, analyze, and...

The Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies, Inc. was awarded a $1.176 million project grant by the US Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service to support SNAP program access through electronic benefit transfer (EBT) systems. Under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment and Training (E&T) Data and Technical Assistance Grants program (CFDA 10.537), the Network will use the funding over a three-year period ending September 2024 to develop the capacity of...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will provide $273,587 to develop model-based and design-based approaches to longitudinal causal decomposition analysis. Led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, the project aims to identify modifiable risk factors contributing to social disparities. Methodological guidance, an R package, sample code, and video tutorials will be created to help researchers...

The U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $147,486 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University for the research study "Intimate Partner Violence and Depression Trajectories from Mid-Adolescence to Young Adulthood". The 5-year grant, with a completion date of August 31, 2026, will leverage the Next Generation Health Study (NEXT) dataset to examine the longitudinal relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and depression among...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA), under the Aging Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.866), awarded a $131,813 Project Grant to the Trustees of Boston University (Boston University Medical Campus) on May 1, 2025. The grant aims to evaluate the effects of poverty alleviation policies, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), on the risk and disparities of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). The research will leverage data from the Health and...

The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services will receive $745,138 under a three-year cooperative agreement from the US Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service. The agreement, awarded September 30, 2021 under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment and Training (E&T) Data and Technical Assistance Grants program (CFDA 10.537), will support the evaluation and modernization of Louisiana's SNAP program. As the State agency responsible for...

This Project Grant award of $328,037 from the National Institute on Aging's Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) will fund a longitudinal mixed methods social network analysis (MMSNA) study of the Cumberland House Reentry Program. The program aims to build social ties and enhance community engagement for older men transitioning from long-term incarceration. The study will collect dynamic sociocentric network data and qualitative data on health and interpersonal relationships to evaluate the...