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This page provides the following information:
The Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program
encourages new and innovative research and joint projects
with ERS researchers. The program awards grants and cooperative
agreements between $100,000 and $400,000.
- Grants are awarded when the research project supports
the research mission and does not require substantial
involvement between ERS staff and the extramural researchers
during the research period.
- Cooperative agreements, awarded when the research
project requires more substantial involvement between
ERS and the extramural researchers, allow ERS staff
to supplement their own expertise with the knowledge
and resources of academic and private institutions.
| THE FANRP COMPETITIVE GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS PROGRAM IS SUSPENDED FOR FISCAL YEAR 2009 |
| ERS’s Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program (FANRP) is suspending its Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program in Fiscal Year 2009. FANRP funds usually allocated to new research proposals will be redirected this year to a new survey of the food acquisition and purchase patterns of low-income households. This new survey will address important information needs regarding the relationship between food acquisition, food security, household income, food prices, food access, and nutrition knowledge. Data collected from the survey will be made publicly available and will provide the basis for future research. FANRP anticipates awarding competitive grants and cooperative agreements for research focusing on USDA's food assistance programs in fiscal 2010, subject to the availability of funds. |
FANRP’s competitive grants and cooperative agreements program is typically announced each year in mid-March. The announcement contains a description of the application process, and researchers can be notified when the announcement is released by subscribing to the ERS e-mail notification service. The deadline for submission of proposals is generally in late May, and the awards are announced in mid-October.
In fiscal 2008, ERS's Food Assistance and Nutrition Research
Program (FANRP) accepted proposals for grants and cooperative
agreements. The publication, Food
Assistance and Nutrition Research Program, Fiscal 2008,
Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program:
Description and Application Process describes the
research areas and application requirements. The deadline
for proposal submission was May 19, 2008.
The proposal evaluation process includes peer review
panels consisting of experts from academia, government,
and the private sector. In addition to reviewer’s comments,
FANRP’s selection process considers coverage of priority
research areas, overlap between proposals and ongoing
projects, program needs, potential benefits from research
collaborations on particular projects, and availability
of funding.
Visit Grants.gov
to find and apply for grants available across the Federal
Government.
Perennial research themes in the FANRP Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements
Program are diet and nutritional outcomes,
food assistance program targeting and delivery, and program
dynamics and administration. In each table
of awards, research projects are grouped by topic area:
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