National Training, Education, Extension, Outreach, and Technical Assistance Competitive Grants Program: Regional Center Grants to Enhance Food Safety
| Jurisdiction: | Texas |
| Incentive Type: | Grant Program |
| Industries: | Health And Safety, Education, Research |
| Eligible Sector: | Business |
| Category: | Financial Incentive |
| Time Period: | FY 2015 |
| Governing Body: | Food & Drug Administration |
| What’s it worth?: | $316,666 |
The National Training, Education, Extension, Outreach, and Technical Assistance Competitive Grants Program: regional Center Grants to Enhance Food Safety was developed to build an infrastructure that supports a national food safety training, education, extension, outreach, and technical assistance system. The program is specified to help owner and operators of:
- Small and medium-sized produce farms
- Beginning farmers
- Socially disadvantaged farmers
- Small processors
- Small fresh fruit and vegetable merchant wholesalers
Areas of priority include:
- National Training
- Education
- Extension
- Outreach
- Technical Assistance
- Enhance Food and Safety
Applications must be submitted on time and error free before the deadline, late applications are not accepted. All applications must address:
- The applicant’s ability to lead, management and coordinate the development and implementation of the project.
- Identify, recruit, and train a network of key individuals
- Clearly demonstrate a significant partnership with community-based organization, non-governmental organizations and/or other local entities
- Ensure that training and other activities reach all key target audiences
- Develop and implement a reporting process
- Collaborate with the National Coordination Center and other Regional Centers
The program funds up to $633,333 total cost and may not exceed $950,000 for a three year period; projects cannot be funded for more than three years. Registration can take six weeks or more, applicants must complete the following registrations:
- Dun and Bradstreet Universal Number System (DUNS)
- System for Award Management (SAM)
- eRA Commons
- Grants.gov
This program does not require cost sharing.
