Project Grant 4093BFA

This Project Grant from the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA #85.750) provides $384,500 to Federacion De Cooperativas De Las Verapaces Responsabilidad Limitada (Fedecovera RL) from July 2022 through July 2025. Fedecovera will support economic recovery for members of four coffee and cardamom cooperatives in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala impacted by Hurricanes Eta and Iota in 2020. Through training, technical assistance, and value chain strengthening, Fedecovera...

The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) awarded $748,000 through its Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750) to Cooperativa Agropecuaria Nuevo Edén Limitada (Coarene) to support organic coffee farming and alternative livelihoods in Honduras from April 15, 2022 to April 15, 2025. Coarene assists small-scale coffee farmers in Honduras' Lempira and Intibuca departments through training and technical assistance to adopt organic practices and obtain certification. It also provides financial...

This $125,000 Project Grant from the Inter-American Foundation's IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs will support the Asociacion Cooperativa De Produccion Agropecuaria De Usulutan De R.L. cooperative in El Salvador. The cooperative, led by youth and women, will expand sustainable honey production and sale of value-added honey products like candles and shampoo. This aims to increase incomes for cooperative members, who are among the poorest producers in Usulutan Department, El Salvador. The...

The Cooperativa De SM Cacao Bocatorena R.L. (COCABO) will receive $297,000 through a Project Grant award from the Inter-American Foundation's (IAF) Assistance for Overseas Programs to support cacao farmer renovation and organic cultivation efforts in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Administered under the IAF's CFDA #85.750 program, which aims to strengthen bonds of friendship and support self-help efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean, the three-year award will enable COCABO to renovate aging cacao...

The Future Generations organization will use a $500,000 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Acer Access Development Program (CFDA 10.174) to deliver educational services and establish demonstration sites promoting maple syrup production in Appalachia. Specifically, the grantee will provide technical and business skills training to maple producers and landowners across Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia through workshops,...

The $125,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions Fund under the Community Development Financial Institutions Program will support technical assistance activities through June 2024. The awardee, Cooperativa De Ahorros Y Credito La Comeriena Farma Coop Domingo Santiago, will build the organizational capacity of certified and emerging Community Development Financial Institutions to serve eligible low-income communities and rural areas...

The Gullah Farmers Cooperative Association will receive $494,960 under a Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service through the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program. The Cooperative will use the funding to maximize wholesale produce sales for socially disadvantaged and small farmers in South Carolina through its packaging and processing facility. Specifically, the grant will support operational investments and financial modeling to...

Partners Of The Americas, Inc. received a $26.36 million Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Kansas City Commodity Office under the Food for Progress program (CFDA 10.606), awarded September 23, 2025, with performance through September 30, 2029. The award supports agricultural development and trade expansion activities in Nigeria through the donation of U.S. agricultural commodities. Under the program structure, donated commodities are monetized through local market...

This Project Grant award of $248,531 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Rural Business Cooperative Services was provided to Lowcountry Fungi LLC under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (CFDA 10.175). The funding will support the development, coordination, and expansion of local and regional food systems in South Carolina over a 24-month period from September 2023 to September 2025. Key products and services to be delivered include initiatives to expand direct...

The Central Illinois Farm-Fresh Enterprise Development Cooperative (FARMFED CO-OP) received a $239,565.60 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) to complete planning and establish operations. FARMFED CO-OP will connect rural producers in Central Illinois to institutional and retail buyers through processing and freezing local produce. Project outcomes will include a marketing...