Project Grant GA27610120

The Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) will provide technical assistance, training, and support to 800 farmers in North Carolina, Tennessee, and South Carolina under a $929,791.57 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service. The goals of ASAP's "Building Recovery and Resilience of Southern Appalachian Farms through Direct Sales" project are to help regional farmers recover from impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic by...

This Project Grant award of $149,960 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will fund a community-based, collaborative oral history and archival project at the Vermont Folklife Center. The project aims to 1) document the experiences of climate change among resettled refugee communities in Vermont through the lens of food access and food-related cultural practices, and 2) identify relevant...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $482,268 Community Food Projects grant to the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks (ACEnet) to implement the "Building Rural Hunger Free Communities with Accessible Market Models" project. This 2-year grant, starting on September 15, 2024, aims to expand community access to local, healthy foods in five Appalachian Ohio counties by strengthening food production, aggregation,...

The U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded a $347,919 Project Grant under the Save America's Treasures program to East Tennessee State University (ETSU) to process, preserve, and digitize records from its Appalachian studies collection. The 3-year project, running from October 1, 2024 to March 31, 2027, will enable ETSU to hire a project archivist and graduate assistant to organize and digitize approximately 1,000 oral history interviews, 1,500 photographs, and 100 linear feet...

This $1,565,565 Project Grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures (CFDA 15.929) program will enable Appalshop Inc., a non-profit media and arts organization in Whitesburg, Kentucky, to digitally preserve nearly 700 hours of its audiovisual collection documenting the history of Appalachia. The project activities will include the cleaning and digitization of flood-damaged film and videotape following a catastrophic flood event in 2023 that...

The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $746,560 Project Grant to Appalachian Sustainable Development, a non-profit organization, under the Community Food Projects (CFDA 10.225) federal grant program. The core goal of this 3-year grant project is to address food insecurity and lack of access to healthy, nutritious food among vulnerable populations in Southwest Virginia. To accomplish this, Appalachian Sustainable Development will use a mobile food...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access Program (CFDA 45.149) will expand and enhance the Feeding America repository at the Michigan State University Libraries. The key deliverables include: 1) Scanning up to 24,000 new cookbook pages; 2) Creating brief, accessible essays for 115 new historical cookbooks; 3) Increasing representation of underrepresented communities by adding new cookbooks to the collection; and 4) Creating...

The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service awarded $588,073.20 to God's Pantry Food Bank Inc. through the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program for the period of September 30, 2022 through September 29, 2025. God's Pantry Food Bank Inc., operating as America's Second Harvest, will use the funding to support the development, coordination and expansion of local and regional food systems in 50 counties across central and eastern Kentucky. As the largest food bank and...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) provides $155,090 to Appalshop, Inc. to preserve and improve access to its archival collections relating to Appalachian history and culture. Through digitization efforts of photographic negatives from 1935 to 1955 and 16mm archival films, as well as purchasing scanning equipment, the award supports enhancing public access to these...

This Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service will fund $540,540.80 to Appalachian Sustainable Development over three years to expand aggregation and distribution of meat products through the Appalachian Harvest food hub. The project aims to increase markets for regional beef producers utilizing environmentally sustainable practices such as grass finishing and silvopasture. Appalachian Sustainable Development will expand training for meat producers...