c. Compton Foundation
$26 million in Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program grants for more than 100 projects that will support rural economies, increase market opportunities for farmers, and help close supply chain gaps in communities across the country. These competitive grants are divided equally between the Farmers Market Promotion Program(FMPP) and the Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP) and are administered by USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, which works to improve market opportunities for U.S. growers and producers. For more info, please click here.
$21.4 million for Organic Research and Extension Program grants for 26 projects to help organic farmers and ranchers improve business operations and bring more organic food to the table of consumers. The grants are funded through the Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) and the Organic Transitions Program (ORG),two programs administered by USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). For more info, please clickhere and here.
$8.6 Million in Community Food Projects grants to 33 projects that help make healthy, nutritious foods available to people from low-income neighborhoods. The grants, offered through NIFA’s Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program (CFP), support projects that foster self-sustaining solutions to food security in at-risk communities. Recent analysis shows the U.S. is making tremendous headway in battling hunger and food insecurity across America, decreasing food insecurity through healthy diets and nutrition education. For more information, please click here.
- Developing integrative social and technological research foundations for S&CC through strong, multidisciplinary efforts that may span institutions, stakeholder groups, and application areas
- Coupling research with community engagement to inform research directions and enable greater community impact
- Supporting research through NSF’s core and cross-cutting programs to enable and address solutions to current and future challenges
- Piloting and evaluating novel solutions to local community challenges — with attention to privacy, security, and quality of life of individuals within communities
- Efforts to understand population characteristics and factors that inhibit or advance participation in technology
- Capacity-building activities to develop collaborations and partnerships through short-term planning activities and longer-term research direction-setting within the research and stakeholder communities, and to engage students and learners of all ages in addressing challenges relevant to S&CC
- Supporting and building international partnerships that leverage research strength and capacity in other parts of the world; and Workshops that bring together diverse stakeholders including academics, community members, Federal agency partners, and others to identify strategic gaps, synergistic opportunities, and avenues for effective transition of research to practice.
c. Compton Foundation
$26 million in Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program grants for more than 100 projects that will support rural economies, increase market opportunities for farmers, and help close supply chain gaps in communities across the country. These competitive grants are divided equally between the Farmers Market Promotion Program(FMPP) and the Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP) and are administered by USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, which works to improve market opportunities for U.S. growers and producers. For more info, please click here.
$21.4 million for Organic Research and Extension Program grants for 26 projects to help organic farmers and ranchers improve business operations and bring more organic food to the table of consumers. The grants are funded through the Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) and the Organic Transitions Program (ORG),two programs administered by USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). For more info, please clickhere and here.
$8.6 Million in Community Food Projects grants to 33 projects that help make healthy, nutritious foods available to people from low-income neighborhoods. The grants, offered through NIFA’s Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program (CFP), support projects that foster self-sustaining solutions to food security in at-risk communities. Recent analysis shows the U.S. is making tremendous headway in battling hunger and food insecurity across America, decreasing food insecurity through healthy diets and nutrition education. For more information, please click here.
- Developing integrative social and technological research foundations for S&CC through strong, multidisciplinary efforts that may span institutions, stakeholder groups, and application areas
- Coupling research with community engagement to inform research directions and enable greater community impact
- Supporting research through NSF’s core and cross-cutting programs to enable and address solutions to current and future challenges
- Piloting and evaluating novel solutions to local community challenges — with attention to privacy, security, and quality of life of individuals within communities
- Efforts to understand population characteristics and factors that inhibit or advance participation in technology
- Capacity-building activities to develop collaborations and partnerships through short-term planning activities and longer-term research direction-setting within the research and stakeholder communities, and to engage students and learners of all ages in addressing challenges relevant to S&CC
- Supporting and building international partnerships that leverage research strength and capacity in other parts of the world; and Workshops that bring together diverse stakeholders including academics, community members, Federal agency partners, and others to identify strategic gaps, synergistic opportunities, and avenues for effective transition of research to practice.