Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA NIFA NLGCA 010248
The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Capacity Building Grants for Non-Land-Grant Colleges of Agriculture (NLGCA) Program is a discretionary grant opportunity designed to strengthen the institutional capacity of eligible non-land-grant colleges of agriculture. The central idea is to help these institutions build the people, tools, and support systems they need to compete more effectively for future external funding and to carry out high-impact education, research, and outreach work that responds to priority agricultural and natural resource concerns at the national, regional, state, and local levels. In practice, the program is aimed at improving an institution's ability to plan and deliver projects, expand its sponsored research and program portfolio, and share useful results and information with producers, communities, and other stakeholders.
Grant funds can be used in several broad ways. First, institutions may use the award to better position themselves to successfully compete for funding from federal grants and other sources, including support for educational, research, and outreach activities tied to priority concerns. Second, funds can support dissemination of information on those priority concerns to agricultural and renewable resource communities, the general public, and other interested groups, which can include outreach materials, events, and other knowledge-sharing efforts. Third, the program allows institutions to encourage participation in priority activities by providing matching funds to leverage other grant dollars, which can make proposals more competitive and help expand the scope of work. Fourth, the opportunity explicitly supports capacity-building investments such as purchasing or otherwise acquiring equipment and other infrastructure, with an important restriction: funds cannot be used for alteration, repair, renovation, or construction of buildings. In addition, awards can be used for faculty professional growth and development and for establishing or expanding graduate assistantships, both of which are common ways to strengthen long-term teaching and research capabilities.
Eligibility is limited and specific. Applications may only be submitted by institutions that are certified by NIFA as Non-Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture at the time of application, and applicants are expected to meet all requirements laid out in the program's Request for Applications (RFA). NIFA maintains a current list of certified NLGCA institutions on its NLGCA List Resource webpage, and institutions that are uncertain about whether they qualify are directed to use the NLGCA Eligibility Flow Chart. To qualify as an NLGCA, an institution must be a public college or university that offers a baccalaureate or higher degree in agricultural sciences, forestry, or both, and those degrees must align with one or more of the program-recognized areas of study. The recognized areas cover a wide range of agricultural and natural resource disciplines, including (among others) animal sciences, plant sciences, soil science, food science, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural education and extension, agribusiness, horticulture (including greenhouse, ornamental, nursery, floriculture, and turfgrass programs), aquaculture, forestry and forest biology, natural resources management and policy, range science and management, urban forestry, international agriculture, and wood science and wood products/pulp/paper technology.
Key opportunity details from the source information include the funding opportunity title "Capacity Building Grants for Non-Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture Program" and funding opportunity number "USDA NIFA NLGCA 010248." The assistance listing is under CFDA (now Assistance Listing) number 10.326, the funding instrument type is a grant, and the activity category is agriculture. The agency is the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The original application closing date listed is January 16, 2024. The award ceiling is $750,000, and NIFA anticipates making about 20 awards. The opportunity was created on November 16, 2023.Apply for USDA NIFA NLGCA 010248
- The National Institute of Food and Agriculture in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Capacity Building Grants for Non-Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.326.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2023-11-16.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-01-16. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $750,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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