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The U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), requests applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2020 Regional Food System Partnerships (RFSP) grant program.
AMS will competitively award grants to eligible applicants for projects that support partnerships to plan
and develop local or regional food systems.It is anticipated that approximately $10 million, less USDA administrative costs, will be available to fund applications under this solicitation.
The final amount available is subject to Congressional action.RFSP is implemented through two project types:
Planning and Design, the awards for which range from $100,000 to $250,000, and Implementation and Expansion, the awards for which range from $250,000 to $1,000,00 0. A 25 percent cash match of total Federal funds is required.Partnerships are eligible to apply to RFSP.
A partnership is an agreement between one or more eligible entities and one or more eligible partners.
See the RFA section 3. 0 for more information.
An application may be submitted by an eligible entity or an eligible partner on behalf of the partnership.
The partnership must specify in its application which organization(s) in the partnership are responsible for receiving and managing the award.All applicants must be domestic entities owned, operated, and located within the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or Tribal Governments.
AMS will competitively award grants to eligible applicants for projects that support partnerships to plan
and develop local or regional food systems.It is anticipated that approximately $10 million, less USDA administrative costs, will be available to fund applications under this solicitation.
The final amount available is subject to Congressional action.RFSP is implemented through two project types:
Planning and Design, the awards for which range from $100,000 to $250,000, and Implementation and Expansion, the awards for which range from $250,000 to $1,000,00 0. A 25 percent cash match of total Federal funds is required.Partnerships are eligible to apply to RFSP.
A partnership is an agreement between one or more eligible entities and one or more eligible partners.
See the RFA section 3. 0 for more information.
An application may be submitted by an eligible entity or an eligible partner on behalf of the partnership.
The partnership must specify in its application which organization(s) in the partnership are responsible for receiving and managing the award.All applicants must be domestic entities owned, operated, and located within the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or Tribal Governments.
Agency: Department of Agriculture
Office: Agricultural Marketing Service
Estimated Funding: $10,000,000
Office: Agricultural Marketing Service
Estimated Funding: $10,000,000
Who's Eligible
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Additional Information of Eligibility:
To eligible to apply under this FOA, the applicant must: 1.
Be a formally designated U. S. land-grant college or land-grant university; and 2.
Have an existing joint graduate education program with a DOE National Laboratory.
A land-grant college or university is an institution designated by its state legislature or Congress to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts.
To demonstrate eligibility, the applicant must include a written representation from its institution that it is designated as a land-grant college or land-grant university.
Also, to demonstrate the applicant has an existing joint grant education program with a DOE National Laboratory, the applicant must include a letter of commitment from the DOE National Laboratory that identifies the existing joint education program and states the laboratory’s commitment to the applicant’s proposed Research & Workforce Development Program.
The FOA goals include promoting a skilled and productive U. S. workforce, and spurring economic development and job creation throughout the United States.
To help further these goals, eligibility for this FOA is restricted to domestic entities both at the applicant/recipient and subrecipient levels.
To qualify as a domestic entity, it must be incorporated (or otherwise formed) under the laws of a particular State or territory of the United States and have a physical location for business operations in the United States.
Nonprofit organizations described in section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that engaged in lobbying activities after December 31, 1995 are not eligible under this FOA.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
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Contact:
Agency Email Description:
RFSP Team Lead
Agency Email:
Date Posted:
2020-03-09
Application Due Date:
Archive Date:
2020-06-10
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