Assistance program
Micro-Grants for Food Security Program
$26.1 Million committed in FY2021–FY2024
- Agency
- Agricultural Marketing Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 10.179
- What it does
- Eligible agricultural agencies or departments competitively distribute grant funds through subawards to eligible entities. Subaward projects funded through MGFSP help increase the quantity and quality of locally grown food in food insecure communities through the completion of small-scale gardening, herding, livestock and other projects that expand access to food and knowledge of food security. The eligible agencies or departments are responsible for conducting a subaward competition, defining specific details of their subaward programs, and ensuring projects are appropriate for the MGFSP. This includes announcing the availability of funding, conducting public outreach, recruiting reviewers, and administering the subaward competition. In addition, eligible agricultural agencies or state departments are responsible for administratively overseeing awarded subrecipients. This includes ensuring subrecipients maintain appropriate records, monitoring subaward projects for compliance with applicable Federal statutes and regulations and applicable AMS General Terms and Conditions, collecting project data, reporting on program outcomes and statutory requirements, and submitting reports to AMS.
- Who benefits
- Eligible sub-applicants include the following entities: an individual; an Indian tribe or tribal organization; a nonprofit organization engaged in increasing food security; a federally funded educational facility; and a local or Tribal government. Inclusion of beginning and/or non-beginning farmers and ranchers is strongly encouraged. Eligible sub-applicants must be located in one of the eligible states or territories and must apply directly to one of those agencies, commissions, or departments of agriculture. States and insular areas/territories must develop proposals that include a series of projects led by eligible sub-applicant(s) who will use the funds to engage in activities to increase the quantity and quality of locally grown food for food insecure individuals, families, neighborhoods, and communities.
- Who applies
- Applications are limited to agriculture agencies, commissions, or departments, responsible for agriculture, in the following states and insular areas: Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the United States Virgin Islands. Applications submitted by other states or entities are not eligible for consideration under the MGFSP and will be excluded from review.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 115-334; 7 U.S.C. § 7518
- Program site
- https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/grants/mgfsp ↗
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