Sun Grant Program
The summary for the Sun Grant Program grant is detailed below.
This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants.
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Sun Grant Program: The purpose of this program is to provide a consortium of universities made up of a university from each of the sun grant regions and subcenter region (see Part III, A for regions) with a grant to support a North-Central, Southeastern, South-Central, Western, and Northeastern Sun Grant Center and a Western Insular Pacific Subcenter. A Sun Grant Center or Subcenter will use 75 percent of grant funds to provide competitive grants within each region that are multi-institutional and integrated, multistate research, extension, and education programs on technology development and technology implementation and address bioenergy, biomass, or bioproducts research priorities.
| Federal Grant Title: | Sun Grant Program |
| Federal Agency Name: | National Institute of Food and Agriculture |
| Grant Categories: | Science and Technology |
| Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | USDA-NIFA-SGP-004543 |
| Type of Funding: | Grant |
| CFDA Numbers: | 10.320 |
| CFDA Descriptions: | Sun Grant Program |
| Current Application Deadline: | Jul 9, 2014 |
| Original Application Deadline: | Jul 9, 2014 |
| Posted Date: | Jun 9, 2014 |
| Creation Date: | Jun 9, 2014 |
| Archive Date: | Aug 8, 2014 |
| Total Program Funding: | $2,500,000 |
| Maximum Federal Grant Award: | none |
| Minimum Federal Grant Award: | none |
| Expected Number of Awards: | |
| Cost Sharing or Matching: | No |
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- Additional Information on Eligibility
- See Part III, A of the RFA.
- Link to Full Grant Announcement
- Sun Grant Program
- Grant Announcement Contact
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