Federal grant programs / Department of Agriculture

Urban Agriculture and Urban County Committee Outreach, Technical Assistance, and Education (10.971)

Also known as UA-OETA

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$39.9 million
• Grant awards18
• Typical award$1.5 million
• Awarded in FY 2025$0
• Size rank1094 of 1824
• Type of assistanceCooperative agreement

Key findings

• It is the 1094th largest of 1,824 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 18 largest recipients received 100% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 16 states and territories.

What the program funds

Assistance from USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) to selected eligible applicants to conduct targeted outreach and technical assistance on FSA programs in urban areas, with an emphasis on communities of disadvantaged, historically-underserved, beginning, and veteran socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in urban areas. Socially disadvantaged groups are defined as a group whose members have been subjected to racial, ethnic, or gender prejudice because of their identity as members of a group without regard to their individual qualities. Outreach and technical assistance are focused on educating agricultural producers in one or more of FSA’s Urban County Committee (COC) Pilot locations and other urban areas. These agreements will support urban agriculture outreach, research, training, technical assistance, and education projects through non-competitive cooperative agreements with local organizations. Micro-grants may be authorized to urban agricultural producers as beneficiaries as needed for projects that support the goals of this opportunity and for areas where USDA funding already isn’t available. FSA must approve the project plan before the micro-grant portion of any proposal could be implemented. With the complex nature of some of FSA’s programs, FSA will focus additional outreach and education to producers in areas who could benefit from additional outreach in order to (1) increase knowledge, awareness, and participation in FSA and USDA programs and services associated with growing food in an urban area; (2) assist farmers with expanding their farming operations, accessing land, and implementing climate-friendly practices that can mitigate their susceptibility to natural disasters in urban areas; and (3) increase representation of underserved farmers serving on Urban County Committees.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

Universities, Higher Education, and Non-Profit entities.

What the money can and cannot pay for

Conduct outreach and technical assistance on FSA programs in urban areas. Provide direct funding to Urban Ag producers for tools, materials and other agriculture resources required.

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Deadlines

No longer accepting applications.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

The estimated funding floor for this opportunity is $750,000 and the estimated funding ceiling is $3.25M. The funding floor means the minimum agreement funding amount for the Federal share per agreement awarded. The ceiling is the maximum agreement funding amount for the Federal share per agreement awarded.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Who usually wins

Nonprofits received 69% of the money, colleges and universities 31%.

By state

Each state below has its own page for this program, with its recipients and yearly totals.

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.