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Micro-Grants for Food Security Program

ID: USDA-AMS-TM-MGFSP-G-24-0028 • Type: Posted

Description

MGFSP assists agricultural agencies or departments in eligible states and territories to increase the quantity and quality of locally grown food in food insecure communities through small-scale gardening, herding, and livestock operations by competitively distributing subawards to eligible entities.USDA promotes climate-resilient landscapes and rural economic systems, including tools to support agriculture, forests, grazing lands, and rural communities. AMS encourages applicants to consider including goals and activities related to reducing and stabilizing the levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere or adapting to the already occurring climate change in their project's design and implementation.

Overview

Category of Funding
Agriculture
Funding Instruments
Grant
Grant Category
Mandatory
Cost Sharing / Matching Requirement
False
Source
On 3/21/24 Agricultural Marketing Service posted grant opportunity USDA-AMS-TM-MGFSP-G-24-0028 for Micro-Grants for Food Security Program with funding of $5.0 million. The grant will be issued under grant program 10.179 Micro-Grants for Food Security Program. It is expected that 10 total grants will be made worth between $125,000 and $2.0 million.

Timing

Posted Date
March 21, 2024, 12:00 a.m. EDT
Closing Date
May 28, 2024, 12:00 a.m. EDT Past Due
Closing Date Explanation
Only applications submitted and validated by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on
Last Updated
May 7, 2024, 12:35 p.m. EDT
Version
2
Archive Date
June 27, 2024

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
State governments
Additional Info
Eligible applicants are agricultural agencies or departments in Alaska, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the United States Virgin Islands. A State department of agriculture is the agency, commission, or department of the government responsible for agriculture within the State, Territory, or Insular area.

Award Sizing

Ceiling
$2,000,000
Floor
$125,000
Estimated Program Funding
$5,000,000
Estimated Number of Grants
10

Contacts

Contact
Agricultural Marketing Service
Contact Email
Contact Phone
(202) 260-8449
Additional Information Site

Documents

Posted documents for USDA-AMS-TM-MGFSP-G-24-0028

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