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FUNDING TO CONNECT KIDS TO FARM FRESH FOOD
- Funder: Department of Agriculture
- Due date: January 10, 2025
- Award range: Up to $500K
- Expected number of awards: 75
- Cost sharing required? Yes
- Eligibility: Nonprofits, child care institutions, school districts, and city, county, and Native American tribal governments
Summary: The Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program is designed to increase the availability of local foods in schools and connect students to the sources of their food through education, taste tests, school gardens, field trips, and local food sourcing for school meals. Grants can launch new farm to school programs or expand existing efforts.
For full eligibility details and application instructions, read the full RFP here.
$$$ TO SUPPORT DIABETES PREVENTION RESEARCH
- Funder: Department of Health and Human Services
- Closing date: January 6, 2025
- Award amount: $350K
- Expected number of awards: 3
- Match required? No
- Eligibility: Nonprofits, small businesses, institutions of higher education, for profit organizations, school districts, housing authorities, and city, state, and county governments.
Summary: This RFP provides funding to support evaluation of the effectiveness of existing Community-Clinical Linkage or Social Connectedness programs to reduce disparities in diabetes risk factors, incidence, or complications. Additionally, research supported by this NOFO will assess how various mechanisms (e.g., improving specific social or environmental conditions, mental health, or self-efficacy) will impact diabetes outcomes. Specifically, the results of this funded research NOFO will: (a) guide future scaling regarding programs using Community-Clinical Linkage and Social Connectedness; (b) demonstrate mitigation of observed disparities in diabetes risk factors, incidence, and complications through Community-Clinical Linkage and Social Connectedness programs; and (c) inform the understanding of the mechanisms by which Community-Clinical Linkage and Social Connectedness programs achieve successful health outcomes and the features that characterize effective programs.
For full eligibility details and application instructions, read the full RFP here.
