Pennsylvania grant & resource directory - pa house
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF agriculture<br />
www.usda.gov<br />
GRANT/LOAN<br />
Food and Nutrition Services – Program provides<br />
discretionary <strong>grant</strong> opportunities, including areas such as<br />
nutrition education to Food Stamp Program Outreach.<br />
Rural Development House & Community Facilities<br />
Programs – Loans are available to develop essential<br />
community facilities in rural areas and towns of up to<br />
20,000 in population; available to public entities such as<br />
munici<strong>pa</strong>lities, counties, and special-purpose districts, as well<br />
as nonprofit corporations and tribal governments.<br />
DEADLINE / REGULATIONS<br />
Contact – (215) 597-4333<br />
http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/<strong>grant</strong>s.htm<br />
http://www.fns.usda.gov/fm/Documents/<br />
GrantsOC.htm<br />
Contact – (202) 720-9619<br />
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rhs/cf/brief_<br />
cp_direct.htm<br />
FEDERAL PROGRAMS<br />
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension<br />
Service, Funding Mechanisms – Grants are available for<br />
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE),<br />
Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative, Small<br />
Business Innovation Research (SBIR), Biotechnology Risk<br />
Assessment (BRAG), Community Food Projects, and others.<br />
Farmers’ Market Promotion Program (CFDA No. 10.168)<br />
– This program is intended to increase domestic consumption<br />
of agricultural commodities by improving and ex<strong>pa</strong>nding,<br />
or assisting in the improvement and ex<strong>pa</strong>nsion of, domestic<br />
farmers markets, roadside stands, community-supported<br />
agriculture programs, and other direct producer-to-consumer<br />
market opportunities; and develop, or aid in the development<br />
of, new farmers markets, roadside stands, communitysupported<br />
agriculture programs, and other direct producer-toconsumer<br />
infrastructures.<br />
Invasive Species – Program makes <strong>grant</strong>s available that<br />
provide <strong>resource</strong>s for general <strong>grant</strong>s and funding information<br />
for invasive species.<br />
Small Business Innovation Research (CFDA No. 10.212)<br />
– Funds are available to stimulate technological innovation<br />
in the private sector, strengthen the role of small businesses<br />
in meeting federal research and development needs, increase<br />
private sector commercialization of innovations derived from<br />
USDA-supported research and development efforts, and<br />
foster and encourage <strong>pa</strong>rtici<strong>pa</strong>tion, by women-owned and<br />
socially disadvantaged small business firms in technological<br />
innovation.<br />
Contact – (202) 720-4423<br />
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/business/<br />
business.html<br />
Previous Fiscal Year Deadline – April 15,<br />
2010<br />
Contact – (202) 720-8317<br />
www.ams.usda.gov/fmpp<br />
A listing of requests for proposals is<br />
available on the Request for Proposals <strong>pa</strong>ge:<br />
http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/toolkit/<br />
<strong>grant</strong>srequests.shtml.<br />
Fiscal Year 2011 Deadline – September 2,<br />
2010<br />
Contact – (202) 720-4423<br />
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/sbir/<br />
sbir.html<br />
PA Grant & Resource Directory<br />
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