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Food Assistance and Nutrition Programs: Fiscal 1999 Research Funding Opportunities

FANRP's Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program made awards in fiscal 1999 to fund research on Food Stamp Program Caseload Decline; Better Serving the Working Poor; Food Security; and Nutrition and Health Outcomes and Dietary Behavior. The program is publicly announced and competitively awarded through the use of peer review panels.

Investigator

City/State

Title

Award
amount

Food Stamp Program Caseload Decline
Mary Corcoran and Kristine Siefert
The Regents of University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI Causes and Consequences of Food Insufficiency After Welfare Reform $200,354
Robert Kornfeld
Abt Associates, Inc.
Bethesda, MD What Explains Recent Changes in Food Stamp Program Caseloads? $96,807
Richard Nathan and Thomas Gais
Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute for Government
Albany, NY The Effects of Welfare Implementation on Food Stamp Caseloads $200,079
Better Serving the Working Poor
Howard Bloom
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
New York, NY Improving Access to Food Stamps for Low-Income Working Households $178,433
Robert Lerman
The Urban Institute
Washington, DC Restructuring Food Stamps to Help Working Families $50,000
Thomas MaCurdy
The SPHERE Institute
Burlingame, CA Program Integrity and Improved Service to the Working Poor Under Alternative Reporting Plans $348,428
Food Security
Linda Weinreb
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA Hunger: Its Risk and Impact in Poor Female-Headed Households with Children $250,000
Nutrition and Health Outcomes and Dietary Behavior
Karen Bonuck
Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx, NY Economic Benefits of a Breast-Feeding Promotion: A Controlled Clinical Trial $399,700
John Cook
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA The Determinants of Overweight and Obesity among Low-Income Children $124,999
Gail Harrison
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA Food Security and Health Outcomes in the California Health Interview Survey $100,000
Chung Huang
The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
Athens, GA Factors Affecting Childhood Obesity Among Low-Income Households $99,828
Anna Maria Siega-Riz
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC Understanding Child Nutrition in the Year 2000: Dynamic Shifts and Their Determinants $200,000
Robert Whitaker
Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnatti, OH Obesity in Low-Income Mothers and Children $350,000

 

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Updated date: December 18, 2006