Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA NIFA NLGCA 006780
The Capacity Building Program for Non-Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture (NLGCA) is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA). It is designed to strengthen the ability of eligible non-land grant colleges of agriculture to build competitive programs and secure additional external funding, while expanding their education, research, and outreach capacity in agriculture and related fields. The program’s underlying goal is to help these institutions develop the people, tools, and partnerships needed to address priority agricultural and renewable resource concerns at the national, regional, state, and local levels.
Grant funds can be used in several practical ways. First, institutions may use support to improve their ability to successfully compete for federal grants and other funding sources, specifically to carry out education, research, and extension-style outreach that targets high-priority issues. Second, funding may support the dissemination of information on priority concerns to stakeholders such as producers, resource managers, relevant professional communities, and the general public. Third, the program allows institutions to encourage stakeholder participation in priority activities by using matching funds as a leveraging tool, helping attract or complement other grant dollars and expand the scale of work. Fourth, the opportunity supports core capacity building investments, including the purchase or acquisition of equipment and other infrastructure needed to conduct the work, with an explicit restriction that the funds cannot be used for alteration, repair, renovation, or construction of buildings. In addition, funds may be used for faculty professional growth and development and for creating or expanding graduate assistantships, both of which are intended to build long-term institutional capability rather than just short-term project outputs.
Eligibility is limited to applicants that are officially certified as Non-Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture by NIFA at the time of application, meaning the institution must appear on NIFA’s current certified NLGCA list. Institutions that were certified before December 21, 2018 are not automatically grandfathered in; they must reapply for certification and meet updated certification criteria referenced in a Federal Register notice. While only certified NLGCA institutions can submit applications as prime applicants, award recipients are allowed to make subawards to organizations that are not themselves eligible to apply, as long as those partners are necessary to carry out the proposed project work.
For this specific funding announcement (Funding Opportunity Number USDA NIFA NLGCA 006780; CFDA 10.326), NIFA anticipated making about 17 awards, with an award ceiling of up to $750,000 per award. The opportunity was posted on July 3, 2019, and listed an original application closing date of October 1, 2019. Overall, the program is structured to help certified NLGCA institutions build durable capacity through strategic investments in people (faculty development and graduate assistants), tools (equipment and infrastructure excluding buildings), and broader competitiveness (grant readiness, dissemination, and leveraged participation), with the expectation that these improvements will enable stronger, sustained contributions to agricultural education, research, and outreach priorities.Apply for USDA NIFA NLGCA 006780
- The Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Capacity Building Program for Non-Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture" 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 Jul 03, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Oct 01, 2019. (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 17 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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