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Veterinary Services Grant Program

ID: USDA-NIFA-VSGP-009745 • Type: Posted

Description

The Veterinary Services Grant Program (VSGP) is designed to support education and extension activities and practice enhancement initiatives that will enable veterinarians, veterinary students, veterinary technicians, and veterinary technician students to gain specialized skills and provide practices with additional resources (e.g., equipment, personnel) needed to more effectively mitigate veterinary service shortages in the U.S. Ultimately, this program will bolster the capacity of private practitioners to provide food animal veterinary services in designated rural veterinarian shortage situations. The purpose of VSGP is to develop, implement, and sustain veterinary services and relieve veterinarian shortage situations in the U.S., which includes insular areas (see Part VIII, D of this RFA for a definition of insular area ). Grants will be made available on a competitive basis to: 1. Establish or expand accredited veterinary education programs, veterinary residency and fellowship programs, or veterinary internship and externship programs carried out in coordination with accredited colleges of veterinary medicine. 2. Provide continuing education and extension, including veterinary telemedicine and other distance-based education, for veterinarians, veterinary technicians, and other health professionals needed to strengthen veterinary programs and enhance food safety and public health. 3. Cover travel and living expenses of veterinary students, veterinary interns, externs, fellows, and residents, and veterinary technicians. 4. To expose students in grades 11 and 12 to education and career opportunities in food animal medicine.

Background
The Veterinary Services Grant Program (VSGP) is designed to support education and extension activities and practice enhancement initiatives that will enable veterinarians, veterinary students, veterinary technicians, and veterinary technician students to gain specialized skills and provide practices with additional resources needed to mitigate veterinary service shortages in the U.S. The purpose of VSGP is to develop, implement, and sustain veterinary services and relieve veterinarian shortage situations in the U.S., which includes insular areas. Grants will be made available on a competitive basis to establish or expand accredited veterinary education programs, provide continuing education and extension, cover travel and living expenses of veterinary students, interns, externs, fellows, residents, and veterinary technicians, and expose students in grades 11 and 12 to education and career opportunities in food animal medicine.

Grant Details
NIFA requests applications for the Veterinary Services Grant Program (VSGP) for fiscal years 2023 to develop, implement and sustain food and large animal veterinary services and relieve veterinary shortage situations in the United States. The goals of the VSGP are to fund accredited schools and organizations in education, extension, and training (EET) for food animal veterinary medicine, and for rural practice enhancement (RPE) for veterinary clinics that provide services in veterinary shortage situations. The amount available for grants in FY 2023 is approximately $4,000,000.

Eligibility Requirements
Applicants for the VSGP must meet all the requirements cited in this RFA. Applications may only be submitted by entities such as state agricultural experiment stations or research farms (1890 institutions), state, local or tribal government agencies for EET grants; while for RPE grants, for-profit or non-profit entities located in the United States such as a veterinary clinic or hospital that provides mixed/large animal veterinary services in a rural area are eligible.

Period of Performance
Grant Duration: 36 Months

Grant Value
$4,000,000

Place of Performance
United States
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Overview

Agency
National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) [USDA]
Category of Funding
Agriculture
Funding Instruments
Grant
Grant Program (CFDA)
10.336 - Veterinary Services Grant Program
Grant Category
Discretionary
Cost Sharing / Matching Requirement
False
Source
Grants.gov
On 1/31/23 the National Institute of Food and Agriculture posted grant opportunity USDA-NIFA-VSGP-009745 for Veterinary Services Grant Program with funding of $4.0 million. The grant will be issued under grant program 10.336 Veterinary Services Grant Program. It is expected that 18 total grants will be made worth between $75,000 and $250,000.

Timing

Posted Date
Jan. 31, 2023, 12:00 a.m. EST
Closing Date
March 29, 2023, 12:00 a.m. EDT Past Due
Last Updated
Jan. 31, 2023, 4:02 p.m. EST
Version
1
Archive Date
April 28, 2023

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Info
A. Applicants for the VSGP must meet all the requirements cited in this RFA. Failure to meet the eligibility criteria by the application deadline may result in exclusion from consideration or preclude NIFA from making an award. For those new to Federal financial assistance, NIFA’s Grants Overview provides highly recommended information about grants and other resources to help understand the Federal awards process. Applications may only be submitted by the entities listed below if they carry out programs or activities that will: 1) substantially relieve veterinary shortage situations; and 2) support or facilitate private veterinary practices engaged in the care of food animals and address food safety and public health concerns for the community. Eligible Applicants for EET 1. State, national, allied, regional, or professional food animal veterinary organization recognized by the American Veterinary Medical Association, 2. College or school of veterinary medicine accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association, 3. University research foundation or veterinary medical foundation, 4. Department of veterinary science or department of comparative medicine accredited by the U.S. Department of Education, 5. State agricultural experiment station or Research Farm (1890 institutions), 6. State, local, or tribal government agency. Eligible Applicants for RPE 1. For-profit or non-profit entity located in the United States, such as a veterinary clinic or hospital, that provides mixed/large animal veterinary services in a rural area, as defined in section 343(a) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1991(a)), within a current VMLRP shortage area. FY2023 shortage situation areas are found here. 2. Clinic or hospital that employs a current VMLRP awardee from any qualifying year (i.e., those with a current service obligation at the time of this application) and applies with reference to the single shortage area to which they are obligated to serve; 3. RPE awards are made to clinics, not individuals. Therefore, only a clinic, not an individual practitioner, may apply for and be awarded an RPE grant.

Award Sizing

Ceiling
$250,000
Floor
$75,000
Estimated Program Funding
$4,000,000
Estimated Number of Grants
18

Contacts

Contact
Joseph Perez Program Analyst
Contact Email
grantapplicationquestions@usda.gov
Email Description
If you have any questions related to preparing application content.
Contact Phone
(202) 401-3486
Additional Information
Veterinary Services Grant Program
Additional Information Site
https://www.nifa.usda.gov/grants/funding-opportunities/veterinary-services-grant-program-vsgp

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