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USDA-FNS-SNAP-SFMMA-2023: Mobile Application Cooperative Agreement, SNAP Farmers and Markets

Closed Closed September 5, 2023 Opportunity USDA-FNS-SNAP-SFMMA-2023 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$4.0 million
• Total funding$4.0 million
• Expected awards4
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

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Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits and colleges and universities.

• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Private institutions of higher education

Eligible entities include: Nonprofit entities, which are any organization or institution with Internal Revenue Service (IRS)-designated 501(c)(3) status and accredited institutions of higher education, i.e., Eligible Educational Institutes via a list maintained by the IRS. All applicant organizations must be domestic entities and shall be owned, operated, and located within the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or the United States Virgin Islands. Each eligible applicant may only submit one (1) application in response to this grant solicitation. Suspended or debarred organizations are ineligible to submit applications in response to this grant solicitation.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Farmers’ Market Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Support Grants awards averaged $2.9 million; this notice allows up to $4.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (100% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to enable SNAP-authorized DMFs (direct marketing farmers and FMs (farmer's markets), as necessary) to determine, at no or little cost to them, whether adding SNAP to their business model has a positive cost-benefit value, and to provide SNAP recipients with greater access to DMFs operating at physical FM locations and via other direct marketing avenues (e.g., roadside stands, pick-your-own). The cooperator will use resources from this cooperative agreement to assist DMFs and FMs in becoming SNAP authorized and support the processing of transactions by these DMFs and FMs through outreach, technical assistance, and a secure SNAP Mobile Transaction Processing Application (The App). This cooperative agreement opportunity is not intended to support the development of an untested mobile application for SNAP. However, the grantee may collaborate or coordinate with The App provider to develop additional functionality for The App that would enable the processing of transactions for other Federal nutrition assistance programs. FNS announces, through this Request for Applications (RFA), the availability of a maximum of $4 million to be used over a three (3) year period for a new award as a cooperative agreement. Only non-profit organizations and institutes of higher education are eligible to participate in this competition.

Category: Food and Nutrition.

Applying now

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