Project Grant 22VSBPR002

This Project Grant award of $550,000 was provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program. The funding supports the testing and implementation of a budgeting intervention to address seasonal hunger in Malawi. The primary awardee, the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), will collaborate with sub-awardee One Acre Fund to pilot and evaluate the impact of a low-cost planning intervention...

This Project Grant award, totaling $600,000, was provided by the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the 1890 Institution Capacity Building Grants Program (CFDA 10.216). The funding supports the "The Growing Connection" project led by Tuskegee University, a historically Black, private land-grant institution. The project aims to address challenges like climate change, food insecurity, and the decline of rural areas by empowering underserved urban and rural...

This $649,882 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) will support an integrated research and extension project at Oregon State University to strengthen transitions from education to employment for youth in rural, resource-dependent communities. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) research and analysis of the social networks and skill/barrier dynamics influencing youth transitions between education...

The federal Project Grant award of $115,613 from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (CFDA 10.902 - Soil and Water Conservation) will support the project "Connecting Kids Inside Out" in providing outreach and technical assistance to historically underserved communities in Georgia. The award, effective from August 16, 2024 to April 18, 2025, will enable the minority-owned, woman-owned, and Black American-owned non-profit organization to expand its mission of community...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service under the Farm to School Grant Program (CFDA 10.575), is funding a $457,731 initiative led by Rural Action Inc. to expand access to healthy, local foods in K-12 schools across Appalachian Ohio and West Virginia. The project involves local food procurement, professional development and training, multi-state peer learning, agricultural education, and workforce development, delivered in...

This federal Project Grant award, in the amount of $240,000, was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program (CFDA 10.522). The award supports a service-learning partnership between the University of Georgia Research Foundation and East Jackson Comprehensive High School in Georgia to create and pilot high-impact high school courses and student leadership opportunities. These...

This federal Project Grant award of $219,887 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program (CFDA 10.522) aims to build a strong local-grown food network in the North County, MO region. The project will use a Montessori-based approach to teach sustainable farming practices, establish school gardens and urban farms, and increase access to affordable, locally-grown produce through farmers...

This Project Grant award of $100,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service under the Farm to School Grant Program (CFDA 10.575) supports the Friends Of School Of The Arts Foundation in San Francisco, CA. The 24-month project, starting on July 22, 2024 and ending on June 30, 2026, aims to improve access to local foods in child nutrition programs. Key activities include procuring local foods for school meals, developing school gardens, providing agricultural...

This $239,997 federal Project Grant awarded by the Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition, a civilian agency, under the USDA's Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program (CFDA 10.522), will support a two-year initiative to increase access to local food and improve food, garden, and nutrition education in the Troy School District (TSD) and Genesee Joint School District (GJSD) in Latah County, Idaho. The project aims to: 1) increase access to local foods in school meals, 2) provide experiential...

This federal Project Grant award of $748,840 was provided by the Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition, a civilian agency, under the Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program (CFDA 10.225). The grant will fund a school-based community food project proposed by Quincy Asian Resources Inc. (QARI), a minority-owned non-profit organization, to address food security needs for migrant and asylum-seeking families in New York City. The project will: (1) provide produce bags to 800 families...