Dear Colleagues,
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is pleased to announce $462,000 in available funding to decrease the impact of disasters through cooperative extension programming. Funding is made through NIFA's Smith-Lever Special Needs Competitive Grants Program (SLSNCGP). This grant program supports innovative, education-based projects that address disaster or emergency preparedness and specific responses related to natural and human-made disasters. The SLSNCGP provides information and tools to USDA, stakeholders, and collaborators to improve decision-making in handling disasters. The SLSNCGP increases awareness and capacity building of urban/rural communities' response to disasters by increasing individuals, families, farms and small businesses disaster preparedness through education and collaborations with other agencies/volunteer organizations.
The program funds targeted projects that enable Cooperative Extension System (CES) to assist in preparing for, providing an educational response to, and recovering from disasters. Some types of hazards and disaster-related events funded in previous years include uncertainties caused by losses of economic infrastructure, severe weather or other natural disasters, security breaches, human disease, or high consequence animal diseases and plant pests. Funds support the delivery of extension education to affected citizens and communities, in one or more states, to address effects of a major declared disaster that occurred no more than 12 months prior to May 2019.
For FY 2019, the program requests applications for standard, planning, and conference/ training workshop grants.
The application deadline is May 28. For additional information, please review the program's website at https://nifa.usda.gov/funding-opportunity/smith-lever-special-needs-competitive-grants-program
Applications will be completed online at Grants.gov, https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=314354
Please contact OCG for proposal development assistance.
Thank you.
Kathleen Nolan, Director, ANR Office of Contracts & Grants (OCG)