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USDA-AMS-TM-MGFSP-G-22-0010: Micro-Grants for Food Security Program

Closed Closed June 6, 2022 Opportunity USDA-AMS-TM-MGFSP-G-22-0010 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. Who won this program's grants before is below, and similar open grants are at the end of the page. It is in our archive of Agricultural Marketing Service notices from 2022.

• Award ceiling$2.1 million
• Award floor$133,002
• Expected awards10
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Eligible applicants are agricultural agencies or departments in Alaska, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the United States Virgin Islands. A State department of agriculture is the agency, commission, or department of the government responsible for agriculture within the State, Territory, or Insular area.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Micro-Grants for Food Security Program awards averaged $1.1 million; this notice allows up to $2.1 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (100% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

MGFSP assists agricultural agencies or departments in eligible states and territories, as provided in section 3.1 Eligible Applicants, to increase the quantity and quality of locally grown food in food insecure communities through small-scale gardening, herding, and livestock operations by competitively distributing subawards to eligible entities, as provided in section 3.2 Eligible Entities.USDA promotes climate-resilient landscapes and rural economic systems, including tools to support agriculture, forests, grazing lands, and rural communities. AMS encourages applicants to consider including goals and activities related to reducing and stabilizing the levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere or adapting to the already occurring climate change in their project’s design and implementation.

Category: Agriculture, Business and Commerce, Community Development, Food and Nutrition.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Agencies often post the same opportunity again under a new number, so check the program's notices on Grants.gov and the similar open grants below.

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