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Demos/Grant
Projects
The Role of the
WIC Program in Improving
Peri-conceptional Nutrition: A Small
Grants Program:
This grant opportunity focuses on
the roles that the WIC program is
playing and can play in improving
nutrition in pre-conceptional and
peri-conceptional periods.
USDA Center for
WIC Nutrition Education Innovations:
The purpose of this Request for
Applications (RFA) is to select an
institution/organization (i.e.
accredited university) that can develop
and administer a USDA Center for WIC
Nutrition Education Innovations,
coordinate activities among researchers
and widely disseminate findings.
Assessment of
Alternatives to Face-to-Face Interviews
in SNAP: The purpose of
this grant is for State agencies to
participate in an assessment of the
impact of waiving the face-to-face
interview for SNAP benefits on program
outcomes. Participating states will
implement demonstration projects in
which the interview for SNAP benefits is
waived.
Childhood
Hunger Grants: In May
2011 the University of Kentucky Center
for Poverty Research, with funding from
the Food and Nutrition Service in the
U.S. Department of Agriculture,
competitively awarded a first round of
grants in the amount of $2.45 million to
qualified individuals and institutions
to provide rigorous research that
expands our understanding of hunger
among children in the United States and
the attendant policy implications.
Elderly
Nutrition Pilot Project:
The Food and Nutrition Service awarded
grants totaling $2.4 million to six
State food stamp agencies to conduct
elderly nutrition pilots from 2002 to
2004. The purpose of these pilots is to
test three different approaches to
eliminate barriers to participation in
the Food Stamp Program by eligible
persons age 60 years and older.
Successful projects increased the number
of participating seniors by 20 to 35
percent in less than 2 years. An
evaluation of the demonstration is
available
here.
Healthy
Incentives Pilots:
Authorized by the Food, Conservation and
Energy Act of 2008, the Healthy
Incentives Pilot (HIP) will test and
rigorously evaluate the impact of
financial incentives at the
point-of-sale for the purchase of fruits
and vegetables on the diet quality of
participants in the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Summer
Food for Children Demonstrations:
The Summer Food for Children
Demonstrations are a series of projects,
authorized by Congress under the 2010
Agriculture Appropriations Act, to
develop and test methods of providing
access to food for low-income children
in urban and rural areas during the
summer months when schools are not in
regular session.
Reaching
Underserved Elderly and Working Poor in
SNAP - FY 2009 Pilots:
On
September 17, 2009, USDA's Food and
Nutrition Service awarded grants
totaling $3 million to six State
agencies for piloting outreach programs
to increase Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP) participation.
The funding targets eligible seniors age
60 and older and eligible working poor
households.
School
Breakfast Pilot Project:
This congressionally-mandated
3-year pilot, which began in school
year 2000-2001 in six school districts,
is studying the impact of the
availability of universal-free school
breakfast on breakfast participation and
measures related to elementary school
students' nutritional status and
academic performance.
WIC
Special Project Grants:
FNS awards WIC Special Project Grants to
be used for "special State projects
of regional or national significance to
improve the services of the
program." In order to meet the
statutory objectives, Special Projects
need to address issues of critical and
timely importance to the WIC program.
Last modified:
04/12/2012
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