Food Security Learning Center

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	Federal Grant Title:	Food Security Learning Center
	CFDA Number:	10.225
	CFDA Description:	Community Food Projects
	Federal Agency Name:	CSREES
	Category of Funding Activity:	Food and Nutrition Education Agriculture Community Development
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	USDA-CSREES-CFP-000689
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
	Posted Date:	May 03, 2007
	Creation Date:	May 03, 2007
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Jun 07, 2007
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Information not provided
	Archive Date:	Aug 07, 2007
	Expected Number of Awards:	Information not provided
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	$200,000
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	$0
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	Yes

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: Only non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are eligible to submit an application. Eligible NGOs must be: (1) Experienced in working with targeted entities - Federal agencies, States, political subdivisions, and other non-governmental organizations - and in organizing workshops that demonstrate programs to targeted entities; (2) Experienced in identifying programs that effectively address food security and community problems, including loss of farms and ranches, rural poverty, welfare dependency, hunger, the need for job training, and the need for self-sufficiency by individuals and communities, that can be implemented by other targeted entities; (3) Experienced in, and capable of receiving information from and communicating with targeted entities throughout the United States; and (4) Experienced in operating a national information clearinghouse that addresses one or more of the community problems described in paragraph (2) above.
Grant Description: The Food Security Learning Center should be designed to create and maintain a national, web-based clearinghouse of information on community food security concerns and common community problems related to the underlying causes of hunger and poverty, including the loss of farms and ranches, rural poverty, welfare dependency, hunger, food access issues, the need for job training, and the need for self-sufficiency by individuals and communities. The FSLC will: operate a national information clearinghouse on innovative means, including Community Food Projects, for addressing food security and common community problems in the areas outlined above; provide information and guidance to other targeted entities on innovative programs that offer constructive, community-based or grassroots solutions to hunger, community food insecurity, and poverty; and contribute in-kind resources toward implementation of the grant.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: Food Security Learning Center
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/fslc.html
Grant Announcement Contact: CSREES Help Desk
Phone: 202-401-5048
Business hours are M-F, 7:00 am -5:00 pm ET electronic@csrees.usda.gov Question regarding this RFA
Similar Government Grants: • Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program; • McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition; • Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program