Grants -
Agriculture Focus
Idaho
State Department of Agriculture
International
Trade and Domestic Market Development
Tel:
(208) 332-8530 ~ Fax: (208) 334-2879
Website:
www.idahoag.us
Table of
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General Federal Grant/Funding Resources . 2
The Catalog of Federal
Domestic Assistance
Open Federal Funding
Opportunities
First
Gov
GovBenefits.gov
General
Resources
Building
Better Rural Places Catalogue
Community Development
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Community Food Projects
Competitive Grants Program
Conservation & Resource Management
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Natural
Resources Conservation Service
Financing
Businesses and New Enterprises
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Small
Business Development Center Program (SBDC)
Quality
Samples Program (QSP)
Rural Business Enterprise
Grants (RBEG)
Rural Business Opportunity
Grants (RBOG)
Small Business Innovation
Research Program (SBIR)
Rural Cooperative
Development Grant (RCDG) Program
Marketing
& Development
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Federal-State Marketing
Improvement Program (FSMIP)
Foreign Market Development
Program (FMD)
Emerging Markets Program
(EMP)
Market Access Program
(MAP)
Market Development
Cooperator Program (MDCP)
Value-Added Agricultural
Product Market Development Grants (VAPG)
Wholesale and Alternative Markets Program (W&AM)
Research
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Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Program
National
Research Initiative
Integrated Program (NRII)
National
Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRIC)
Pest
Management Alternatives Program (PMAP)
Pesticide Environmental
Stewardship Program (PESP)
Technical Assistance
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Technical Assistance for
Specialty Crops (TASC)
Technical
Issues Resolution Fund (TIRF)
Quick
Response Marketing Fund (QRMF)
Section
108 Foreign Currency Program
The
Cochran Fellowship Program
Professional
Development Program
Trade and Investment Program
(TIP)
Research
and Scientific Exchanges Division (RSED)
General
Federal Grant/Funding
Programs
The Catalog of
Federal Domestic Assistance
This website
gives access to a database of all Federal assistance programs.
Assistance
programs are available for:
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State and
local governments
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Federally-recognized
Indian tribal governments
·
Territories
(and possessions) of the United States
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Domestic
public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and
institutions
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Specialized
groups
·
Individuals
Under Find Assistance Programs, the
database is searchable by agency, functional area, deadline dates, eligibility,
beneficiary, type of assistance and by keyword. Example
search: Agriculture (many programs listed under multiple functional
areas)
Website also
provides:
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Name of
program, agency, purpose of grant, application process and link to application,
contact information, and sample grants awarded in the past
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Several
aids for writing grant proposals.
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Website: www.cfda.gov/default.htm
Open Federal
Funding Opportunities
Website: http://fedgrants.gov/Applicants/
First
Gov
This website
provides a comprehensive listing of all types of information, services and
resources.
This website is the official U.S. gateway to all government information. Sources include federal and state governments, U.S. territories and foreign nations. Gateway searches more than 51 million web pages.
Gateways for information: Citizens, Business & Government.
Website: www.firstgov.gov/
GovBenefits.gov
This website provides a personalized
screening tool for individual assistance.
The online screening tool is free,
easy-to-use, and confidential as it does not require a name, phone number,
Social Security number, or any other information that could be used for
identification.
The following link lists agencies and organizations that provide benefits programs:
www.govbenefits.gov/jsp/AgencyBenefitList.jsp
Website: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/fedgt.html#grant
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USDA
agencies and programs providing major support for this publication:
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Resource
Conservation and Development
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Natural
Resources Conservation Service
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U.S. Forest
Service
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Cooperative
State Research, Education & Extension Service
Sustainable Agriculture
Research and Education Program (SARE)
Community
Development
Community Food Projects Competitive Grants
Program
Grants to Develop Community Food Projects for Low-Income
Residents
National Program
Office
Dr. Mark R. Bailey, (202) 401-6488
Dr. Elizabeth Tuckermanty,
(202) 205-0241
Program Co-Directors
USDA-CSREES, Stop 2241
Washington,
DC 20250-2241
E-mail: mbailey@reeusda.gov or etuckermanty@reeusda.gov
Conservation
& Resource Management
FSA Drought Assistance Programs
Livestock Assistance Program (LAP)
Crop Disaster Program (CDP)
American Indian Livestock Feed Program
State Contact:
Becky Rios, Outreach Coordinator
(208) 378-5667, Ext. 1
Natural
Resources Conservation Service
Provides
leadership in a partnership effort to help people conserve, maintain, and
improve our natural resources and environment
The Farm Security and
Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Farm Bill):
Provided for conservation funding and for focusing on environmental
issues in order to assist farmers and ranchers in meeting environmental
challenges on their land. This legislation simplifies existing programs and
creates new programs to address high priority environmental and production
goals.
ΰ Agricultural Management Assistance Program (AMA)
ΰ Conservation of Private Grazing Land Program (CPGL)
ΰ
Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)
ΰ Conservation Security Program (CSP)
ΰ Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
ΰ Farm & Ranch Land Protection Program (FPP)
ΰ Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP)
ΰ National Natural Resources Conservation Foundation (NNRCF)
ΰ Resource Conservation and Development Program (RCDP)
ΰ
The NRCS
has partnerships on many conservation programs with a wide variety of
organizations. Links to these
organizations can be found at: www.nrcs.usda.gov/partners/other_partners.html
Financing
Businesses and New Enterprises
Small Business Development Center Program
(SBDC)
To provide management assistance to
current and prospective small business owners.
The
SBDC Program is designed to deliver up-to-date counseling, training and
technical assistance in all aspects of small business management. SBDC services
include, but are not limited to, assisting small businesses with financial,
marketing, production, organization, engineering and technical problems and
feasibility studies. Special SBDC programs and economic development activities
include international trade assistance, technical assistance, procurement
assistance, venture capital formation and rural development.
James
Hogge, State Director
1910 University Drive
Boise, ID
83725-1655
Office: 1021 Manitou Ave.
Tel: 208-426-3799
Fax: 208-426-3877
Email: jhogge@boisestate.edu
Website: http://www.idahosbdc.org/
Quality
Samples Program (QSP)
Assists
U.S. agricultural trade organizations provide small samples of their
agricultural products to potential importers in emerging markets
overseas.
Program
Information:
·
Focusing
on industry and manufacturing, as opposed to end-use consumers, it permits
potential customers to discover U.S. quality. It also allows manufacturers
overseas to do test runs to assess how U.S. food and fiber products can best
meet their production needs. In 2002, USDA is providing initial allocations
totaling $1.34 million to trade associations and state agricultural
organizations under this program.
·
Trade
organizations and private firms can submit QSP proposals to USDA as part of the
Unified Export Strategy (UES).
·
Participants
who are approved for QSP funding obtain commodity samples, export them and
provide the importer the technical assistance necessary to use the sample
properly. When a project is finished, USDA reimburses the participants for the
costs of procuring and exporting the samples. The technical assistance component
is not covered by the program.
·
USDA-FAS
Marketing Operations Staff
AG
Box 1042
1400
Independence Ave.
Washington,
DC 20250-1042
Tel:
(202) 720-4327
Fax:
(202) 720-9361
E-mail:
mosadmin@fas.usda.gov
Rural Business Enterprise Grants
(RBEG)
Grants for Assisting Small and Emerging Rural Businesses to Nonprofits and Public Bodies
·
Finance and facilitate
the development of small and emerging private business enterprises located in
rural areas through grants to public bodies, nonprofits, and federally
recognized Indian Tribal groups.
·
This includes starting
and operating revolving loan funds, business incubators, and industrial parks.
In addition, costs that may be paid from grant funds include the acquisition and
development of land and the construction of buildings, plants, equipment, access
streets and roads, parking areas, and utility and service extensions;
refinancing; fees for professional services; technical assistance and training
associated with technical assistance; startup operating costs and working
capital, providing financial assistance to a third party; production of
television programs to provide information to rural residents; and creating,
expanding, and operating rural distance learning networks.
9173 West Barnes, Ste A1
Carole Boyko
Boise, ID 83709
USDA, Rural Business-Cooperative Service
Tel: (208) 378-5600
Room 6868 South Building, Stop 3225
Fax: (208) 378-5643
Washington, D.C. 20250
Website: www.rurdev.usda.gov/id/stateofc.htm
Tel: (202)
720-1400
Fax: (202) 720-2213
Website: www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/busp/bprogs.htm
Rural Business Opportunity Grants
(RBOG)
Grants to Nonprofits and Public Bodies
for Community Planning, Technical Assistance and Training for Rural
Businesses
The Rural Business Opportunity Grants program (RBOG) was
created by the 1996 Farm Bill to assist in the economic development of rural
areas by providing grants to assist business and community development. Grant
funds may be used to:
·
Identify
and analyze business opportunities, including export markets, that will use
local natural and human resources;
·
Identify,
train, and provide technical assistance to existing or prospective rural
entrepreneurs and managers;
·
Establish
business support centers and otherwise assist in the creation of new rural
businesses;
·
Conduct
local community or multi-county economic development planning;
·
Establish
centers for training, technology, and trade that will provide training to rural
businesses in the utilization of interactive communications technologies to
develop international trade opportunities and markets;
·
Conduct
leadership development training of existing or prospective rural entrepreneurs
and managers; and
·
Pay
reasonable fees and charges for professional services necessary to conduct the
technical assistance, training or planning functions.
Wayne Stansbery
Rural Business-Cooperative
Service, Specialty Lenders Division
1400 Independence Ave, SW, Stop
3225
Washington, D.C. 20250-1521
Tel: (202) 720-6819
Fax: (202) 720-2213
Email: wstansbe@rus.usda.gov
Website: www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/busp/rbog.htm
Small Business Innovation Research Program
(SBIR)
Grants for Feasibility Studies and Product Research and Development to Small Businesses
Ten
federal agencies grant SBIR funds. The USDA's SBIR program makes grants that are
competitively awarded for feasibility studies and product research and
development to qualified small businesses. SBIR funds support high quality
research proposals containing advanced concepts related to important scientific
problems and opportunities in agriculture that could lead to significant public
benefit if the research is successful.
Objectives: To stimulate technological innovations
in the private sector, strengthen the role of small businesses in meeting
Federal research and development needs, increase private sector
commercialization of innovations derived from USDA-supported research and
development efforts, and foster and encourage participation by women-owned and
socially and economically disadvantaged small business firms in technological
innovations.
Research categories: Forests and Related
Resources; Plant Production and Protection; Animal Production and Protection;
Air, Water and Soils; Food Science and Nutrition; Rural and Community
Development; Aquaculture; Industrial Applications; and Marketing and Trade.
The
SBIR grant program is divided into two phases.
·
Phase I
grants support technical feasibility studies.
·
Phase II
grants provide financial assistance for Phase I projects to enter the
development stage to the point of commercialization.
·
Businesses
are encouraged to pursue Phase IIIcommercializationthrough other sources, as
SBIR does not provide funding for expansion, marketing, and application of the
developed technology.
National Program
Office
Charles Cleland, Director SBIR Program
Cooperative State
Research, Education, and Extension Service, USDA,
Ag Box 2243
Washington, D.C.
20250-2243
Tel: (202) 401-4002 or (202) 401-1839 - Ruth Lange
Fax: (202)
401-6070
Email: ccleland@reeusda.gov
State
Contact
Rick
Ritter
SBIR Boise Office
Tel: (208) 426-3870
Email: rritter@boisestate.edu
Marketing &
Development
Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program
(FSMIP)
Matching Grants for Marketing
Agricultural Products through State Departments of
Agriculture
FSMIP funds can be requested for a wide
range of marketing projects, including, but not limited to, the following:
National Program Office
Janise Zygmont, Staff officer
P.O. Box 96456, Room 4006-S
Washington, D.C. 20090-6456
Tel: (202) 720-8043
Fax: (202) 690-4948
Email: janise.zygmont@usda.gov
Website: www.ams.usda.gov/tmd/fsmip.htm
State Program Office
Laura Johnson, Bureau Chief
PO Box 790
Boise, ID 83712
Tel: (208) 332-8533
Fax: (208) 334-2479
Email: ljohnson@idahoag.us
Website: www.idahoag.us
Foreign
Market Development Program (FMD)
Aids
U.S. farmers, processors, and exporters in the creation, expansion, and
maintenance of long-term export markets for U.S. agricultural
products.
The
overseas promotions focus on generic U.S. commodities (rather than individual
brand-name products) and are targeted toward long-term development. A Cooperator
program which enlists private sector involvement and resources in coordinated
efforts to promote U.S. products to foreign importers and consumers around the
world. In 2002, Cooperators and U.S. industry resource contributions totaled 121
percent of the funds provided by FAS. Preference is given to nonprofit
U.S. agricultural and trade groups that represent an entire industry or are
nationwide in membership and scope.
USDA-FAS
Marketing Operations Staff
AG
Box 1042, 1400 Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington,
DC 20250-1042
Tel:
(202) 720-4327
Website:
www.fas.usda.gov/mos/programs/fmd.html
Emerging
Markets Program (EMP)
To improve
market access by developing, maintaining, or enhancing the exports of U.S.
agricultural commodities and products to low- and middle-income countries which
have or are developing market-oriented economies, and which can be viable
markets for these U.S. products.
The program funds technical assistance activities: Example are feasibility studies, market
research, sectoral assessments, orientation visits, specialized training,
business workshops, etc.
The EMP is a generic program, not a branded program. It generally works with national
cooperators although technical assistance can be targeted toward specific issues
for particular commodities.
USDA-FAS
Marketing Operations Staff
AG
Box 1042, 1400 Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington,
DC 20250-1042
Tel:
(202) 720-4327
Website:
http://ffas.usda.gov/mos/em-markets/info&guide.html
Market Access Program (MAP)
To create,
maintain and expand long-term export markets for U.S. agricultural products
through cost-share assistance and the opportunity to work closely with FAS and
its overseas offices f or Export Market Development Activities such as Consumer
Promotions, Market Research, Technical Assistance and Trade
Servicing
Cooperator funds are
authorized through program agreements with nonprofit U.S. trade associations
called Cooperators such as WUSATA (below).
The most highly funded export market program, the direct payments have
been FY 01 $27,500,000; FY 02 est. $27,500,000; and FY 03 est. 27,500,000.
MAP 2003 Award Announcement: www.fas.usda.gov/mos/programs/mapprog.html
Western U.S. Agricultural Trade
Association (WUSATA)
2500 Main Street, Suite 110
Vancouver, WA 98660-2697
Tel: (360) 639-3373
Fax: (360) 693-3464
Website: http://www.wusata.org/
Market Development Cooperator Program
(MDCP)
A
competitive matching grants program which helps to underwrite the start up costs
of new export marketing ventures for groups that are particularly effective in
reaching small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs).
The
program is administered through the International Trade Administration. Generally, private enterprises are not
eligible. The following are usually found to be eligible:
·
Non-profit
industry organizations
Idaho
Office
James Hellwig,
USEAC Director
U. S.
Commercial Service
Boise
U.S. Export Assistance Center
700 West
State Street, 2nd floor
Boise, ID
83720
Tel:
208-489-2112
Fax:
208-334-2783
Email: james.hellwig@mail.doc.gov
Website: www.ita.doc.gov/td/mdcp/
Value-Added Agricultural Product Market
Development Grants (VAPG)
Also
known as the Value Added Producers Grant (VAPG), this grant is to help producers
of agricultural commodities, agricultural producer groups, farmer and rancher
cooperatives and majority owned producer based business ventures develop
business plans for viable marketing opportunities and develop new strategies to
create marketing opportunities in emerging markets
Idaho Office
Dale
Lish
USDA Rural Development
9173 West Barnes Drive, Suite A1
Boise, ID
83709
Tel: (208) 785-5840, ext. 118
Email: dale.lish@id.usda.gov
Website: www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/coops/vadg.htm
Wholesale and Alternative Markets Program
(W&AM)
USDA provides
technical assistance, information and data to assist in developing feasibility
studies for wholesale, collection, farmers and direct markets.
Program
Information:
·
Designed to
increase overall food marketing efficiency, thereby lowering the cost of
marketing food through technical assistance to States and municipalities
interested in creating or upgrading markets and marketing
facilities.
·
Applicant
must be other government agencies and private industry. State, trade
associations, universities, and other nonprofit organizations are eligible to
apply for cooperative agreements.
·
Markets
focus: Wholesale, Collection, Farmers, and Direct.
·
Assistance: Advisory services, counseling and
training
ΰ
AMS
Marketing Services Branch (MSB) analyzes marketing facilities, processes, and
methods
ΰ
This is not
a grant program
National
Office
Errol Bragg, Associate Deputy Administrator
Marketing Services Branch - USDA Room 2646 - S, Stop 0269 1400 Independence Ave., SW.Washington, DC 20250-0269 Tel: (202) 720-8317Fax: (202) 690-0031
Email: Errol.Bragg@usda.gov
Sustainable
Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Program
Grants to Improve the Environmental and
Economic Sustainability of Farming and Ranching to Educational Institutions,
Nonprofits and Producer.
Proposal guidelines for each of the grants programs are available from the regional SARE offices or the national program office. Each region solicits proposals and awards grants independently; contact the regional office for applications and deadlines.
Western Region
National Program Office
Utah State University
Director, Sustainable Agriculture Programs
Ag Science Bldg., Rm. 322
1400 Independence Ave. SW
4865 Old Main Hill Road
USDA Mail Stop 2223
Logan, UT 84322-4865
Washington, DC 20250-2223
Tel: (801) 797-2257
Tel: (202) 720-6527 (6071
fax)
Email: wsare@mendel.usu.edu Email: ehauhn@reeusda.gov
Website: http://wsare.usu.edu/
Website: http://www.sare.org/
National
Research Initiative Integrated
Program (NRII)
The 2003
supplemental funding targets five new programs: functional genomics, human
nutrition and obesity, air quality, animal and plant biosecurity, and training
for agricultural homeland security.
Program
Information:
·
Priority
given to projects that are multi-state, multi-institutional, or
multidisciplinary, or to projects that integrate research, extension, and
education.
·
Programs
build on a foundation of ongoing research addressing key issues of national and
regional importance to agriculture, forestry, human nutrition, and related
sciences.
·
Supports a
spectrum of research that bridges the basic and applied sciences and results in
practical outcomes.
·
Competition
for grants is open to scientists at all academic institutions, Federal research
agencies, and private and industrial organizations.
Contacting the NRI
Tel: (202) 401-5022
Fax: (202) 401-6488
Email: nricgp@reeusda.gov
National
Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program
(NRIC)
Research on
key problems of national and regional importance in biological, environmental,
physical, and social sciences relevant to agriculture, food, and the environment
on a peer-reviewed, competitive basis.
Program
Information:
·
Funding is
managed by the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service
(CSREES).
·
Supports a
spectrum of research that bridges the basic and applied sciences and results in
practical outcomes.
·
Competition
is open to scientists at all academic institutions, Federal research agencies,
private and industrial organizations.
·
2003
applications identified 25 research programs in eight major research
areas:
* Natural Resources and the Environment * Animals
* Nutrition, Food Safety, and Health * Markets, Trade and Rural Development
*
Biology and Management of Pest and
* Enhancing Value and Use of
Agricultural
Beneficial Organisms and Forest Products
* Agricultural Systems Research * Plants
Tel: (202) 401-5022
Fax: (202) 401-6488
Email: nricgp@reeusda.gov
Pest
Management Alternatives Program (PMAP)
Competitive
Grants Supporting the Development and Implementation of Pest Management
Alternatives When Regulatory Action by EPA or Voluntary Cancellation by the
Registrant Results in the Unavailability of Certain Agricultural Pesticides or
Pesticide Uses
National Program Office
Dennis Kopp
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture; Stop 2220
1400 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20250-2220
Tel: (202) 401-6437
Fax: (202)
401-4888
Email: dkopp@reeusda.gov
Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program
(PESP)
Grants to be matched by States for
Projects Aimed at Reducing the Risks and Uses of Pesticides in Agricultural and
Non-Agricultural Settings
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency -- PESP
401 M St. SW (7511C)
Washington, DC 20460
Tel: (703)
308-8712 or (800) 972-7717
Fax: (703) 308-7026
Technical
Assistance
Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops
(TASC)
Assists U.S.
organizations by providing funding for projects that address sanitary,
phytosanitary, and technical barriers that prohibit or threaten the export of
U.S. specialty crops.
Program
Information:
·
Specialty
crops including all cultivated plants and their products produced in the United
States except wheat, feed grains, oilseeds, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar and
tobacco.
·
Examples of
activities these grants may cover include seminars and workshops, study tours,
field surveys, pest and disease research, and pre-clearance programs.
·
U.S.
organizations, including, but not limited to: U.S. government agencies, state
government agencies, non-profit trade associations, universities, agricultural
cooperatives, and private companies.
·
USDA-FAS
Marketing Operations Staff
AG Box 1042
1400
Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington,
DC 20250-1042
Tel: (202)
720-4327
Technical Issues Resolution Fund
(TIRF)
Addresses
technical barriers to trade in emerging markets worldwide by providing technical
assistance, training, and exchange of expertise. Projects
include plant
quarantine, animal health, food safety, and other technical barriers to U.S.
exports based on unsound or incomplete scientific information.
Implementation
of activities under TIRF is a joint effort between the Emerging Markets Program
and the Research and Scientific Exchanges Division/ International Cooperation
and Development (ICD). Two types of
activities will be considered under TIRF:
·
High priority
or time-sensitive issues
·
Strategic
areas of long term interest
Limited to
countries which meet emerging market requirements (population greater than 1
million and per capita income of less than $9,265). Proposals may be submitted at any time
during the year since the review panel meets on a monthly basis.
U.S.
Department of Agriculture -- Foreign Agricultural Service
Michelle
Sharrow (SharrowM@fas.usda.gov) or Micah Rosenblum (Rude@fas.usda.gov)
Tel: (202) 690-3996 or (202)
720-5876
Website: www.fas.usda.gov/mos/em-markets/tirfmain.html
Quick Response Marketing Fund
(QRMF)