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USDA-FNS-WIC-FPRGS-23: FY23 WIC Food Packages Research Grants and Symposium

Closed Closed August 30, 2023 Opportunity USDA-FNS-WIC-FPRGS-23 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$1.5 million
• Award floor$1.5 million
• Total funding$1.5 million
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

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)

This Request for Applications (RFA) is open to all accredited for profit or non-profit institutions of higher education (colleges/universities), nonprofit research entities, and other nonprofit organizations or research institutions. All non-profit organizations must include their 501(c)(3) determination letter issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Participant Research Innovation Laboratory for Enhancing WIC Services awards averaged $1.7 million; this notice allows up to $1.5 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (100% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

This request for applications (RFA) will provide $1,500,000 in Federal funding, through a one-time cooperative agreement, to one external entity (institute of higher education or other non-profit research organization) that will ultimately provide grants to researchers to conduct pre- and post-implementation research around changes to the WIC food packages. Eligible external entities include accredited institutions of higher education (colleges/universities), nonprofit research organizations, and other nonprofit organizations. The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to better understand facilitators and barriers to implementation encountered by State/local programs, participants, and vendors and to generate evidence around implementation of the final changes to the WIC food packages rule. The goal of this work will be to assess the impacts of the recommended revisions to the WIC food packages on program satisfaction, program participation, availability and redemption of WIC foods, and participants’ diets and health.

Category: Food and Nutrition.

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