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FAO

Pooled funding mechanism supporting strategic programs across food security, sustainable agriculture, rural livelihoods, and resilient food systems.

FAO

Provides technical assistance to FAO member countries for addressing food security, agriculture, fisheries, and forestry challenges. Rapid response mechanism for urgent needs.

Foreign Agricultural Service

The Food for Progress Program provides for the donation of U.S. agricultural commodities to developing countries and emerging democracies committed to introducing and expanding free enterprise in the agricultural sector. The commodities are generally sold on the local market, and the proceeds are used to support agricultural development activities. Per the Food Security Act of 1985, (7 U.S.C. 1736o(d)), the Food for Progress Program has six specific objectives: Access, on the part of farmers in the country, to private, competitive markets for their products; Market pricing of eligible commodities to foster adequate private sector incentives to individual farmers to produce food on a regular basis for the country s domestic needs; Establishment of market-determined foreign exchange rates; Timely availability of production inputs (such as seed, fertilizer, or pesticides) to farmers; Access to technologies appropriate to the level of agricultural development in country; and Construction of facilities and distribution systems necessary to handle perishable products. These can be summarized through two high-level strategic objectives: (1) increase agricultural productivity, and (2) expand trade of agricultural products (domestically, regionally, and/or internationally). These objectives work to enhance the competitiveness of American agricultural markets while promoting private sector engagement and encouraging innovation in emerging markets. The Food for Progress Program also represents the America First priorities by investing in strategically selected partner countries committed to improving agricultural productivity and expanding agricultural trade and opening new markets for U.S. agricultural goods while seeking to support vulnerable communities across the world. Go to Related Documents to find the full announcement, details on how to apply, instructions on accessing the Food Aid Information System, weekly responses to questions, and other important information.

Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada

This formative evaluation covers the five-year (2016-2021) Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) grant agreement with Global Affairs Canada (GAC) for $125 million. It assesses CFGB’s performance and value added in addressing humanitarian needs and alignment with relevant policies over the period, in order to assist GAC in its decisions on the renewal of CFGB’s core funding. A grant agreement provided funding for CFGB food assistance, nutrition, public engagement and public policy programs, as well as a contribution to program management and overhead costs.[1] Under the terms of the program, CFGB contributed matching funds on a one to four matching basis. Assistance - largely aimed at addressing food security and nutrition needs of affected populations - was provided through 155 discrete initiatives in 31 countries. Actions were implemented by 15 CFGB member agencies and their partners, with CFGB headquarters (HQ) providing overall coordination, technical support and liaison with GAC.

DOC NOAA - ERA Production

The purpose of this document is to advise the public that NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) Competitive Research Program (NCCOS/CRP) [formerly Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (CSCOR)/Coastal Ocean Program (COP)] is soliciting proposals to drive practical and cost-effective innovations for harmful algal bloom toxin detection in seafood that promotes seafood safety, food security, and the economic success of U.S. seafood industries and their competitiveness in global markets. For this Announcement, proposals will focus on the development and advancement of innovative, efficient, and effective point-of-use harmful algal bloom toxin detection technologies in support of the Nation s nutritional, cultural, and economic seafood interests, and to reduce costs to U.S. communities and industries that rely on safe seafood. --- Funding is contingent upon the availability of Federal appropriations. If funding is available for this program, two to five projects are expected to be supported for one to three years in duration, with an approximate annual budget for each project of $100,000-$250,000, not to exceed $750,000 per project. NCCOS/CRP may reject any proposals submitted with an annual budget that is greater than $250,000 for any year. --- An informational webinar on this solicitation will be offered on March 24, 2026 from 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern Time. Information regarding this Announcement, including the webinar and additional background information, is available on the NCCOS Funding Opportunities webpage (https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/about/funding-opportunities/).

NIAID - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

PROJECT SUMMARY Hormones pleiotropically regulate diverse physiological processes, often through tiered gene regulatory networks (GRNs) which consist of primary response genes that are directly regulated by the hormone and secondary response genes that are regulated by transcription factors in the primary response set. A central hypothesis in this proposal is that pleiotropic hormones can enact distinct gene regulatory programs via hierarchically tiered gene regulation. It is further hypothesized that modest differences in the primary level of regulation can result in larger differences at the secondary level, leading to functionally specialized GRNs over development and in response to environmental stimulus. However, distinguishing primary from secondary regulation is difficult or impossible from transcriptomic data alone, presenting a major hindrance to deciphering how hormones regulate pleiotropic balances. This project will overcome that challenge by combining transcriptomic profiling with computational analysis and direct assays of DNA-binding to decipher primary and secondary levels of gene regulation. The project will focus on the hormone 20- hydroxyecdysone (or ecdysone, 20E) in the Drosophila melanogaster model system. 20E has well-defined roles in development and a documented but undefined role in regulating the immune system. In Aim 1, an ex vivo tissue assay will be used to build the 20E gene-regulatory network. Transcriptomic analysis, measurement of direct DNA binding by the nuclear hormone receptor, and characterization of the chromatin landscape will be combined to identify primary targets of 20E signaling. Transcription factors in the primary-regulated gene set will then be computationally and experimentally evaluated for regulation of genes in the secondary level of control. In Aim 2, experimental infections with pathogenic bacteria will be used to define the 20E modulation of the immune system in vivo. Both 20E and innate immune signaling are highly conserved across insects, including in agricultural pests and human disease vectors, and the endocrine-mediated development-immunity pleiotropy can be exploited for insect control mechanisms to promote food security and improve public health. More broadly, the principles hormonal regulation of immune function are likely to be conserved across all animals, including humans, and pleiotropic endocrine GRNs allow evolutionary adaptation in life history balances. The methodology and workflow developed in this proposal can be applied broadly to hierarchical gene regulatory networks in any system.

Howard G. Buffett Foundation

Major funder of food security, conflict resolution, and conservation in Africa and the Americas.

Humana Foundation

Funds healthy communities initiatives focusing on food security and social isolation.

NIMHD - National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Rural communities experience higher food insecurity prevalence and residents face challenges in obtaining food due to a number of barriers, including economic and financial instability, transportation limitations, and lack of or limited access to stores that offer varied, healthy, and affordable food options. Supermarkets are not readily accessible and independently- owned small markets, corner, liquor, and convenience stores are more prevalent. While these small stores generally offer limited healthy food options, they are existing assets in the community that are already serving community residents and can become an important source of healthy food access that increases the visibility and variety of nutritious foods within rural communities. The long-term goal of this project is to test the effectiveness of the introduction of a produce distribution service into small stores on increasing healthy food access, reducing health disparities, and improving psychosocial health outcomes among low-income, primarily Hispanic rural community residents in Imperial County, CA. This project will accomplish three specific aims: Specific Aim 1: Assess and characterize the food environment in Imperial County, CA. The food environment will be evaluated by creating a Geographic Information System that captures existing food retailers, conducting in-store observational audits of all food retailers to assess current healthy food accessibility and availability, and analyzing the data to identify healthy food access gaps and potential small store partners for produce distribution services. Specific Aim 2: Adapt and implement the produce distribution service. The produce distribution service will be adapted based on input from a community advisory board and small store owners. Quantitative and qualitative data will assess the feasibility and acceptability of the service and indicate if its elements met the needs of small store owners and community residents, and were acceptable, feasible, cost-effective, and contextually-relevant. Specific Aim 3: Evaluate the preliminary multi-level effectiveness of produce distribution services to partner stores. Multi-method, longitudinal data will be analyzed to evaluate the effectiveness of the produce distribution service in improving produce accessibility and availability and food security, and changing food acquisition and dietary intake behaviors. By adapting and implementing a produce distribution service for rural communities that has been successful in urban communities, this project has the potential to inform approaches for leveraging existing assets in the community to increase healthy food access within rural communities that face considerable barriers in improving the food environment.

NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

PROJECT ABSTRACT The overarching goal of the Neuro-RISE (Training in Interdisciplinary Neurotrauma Research, Innovation, and Scientific Excellence) program is to train the next generation of neurotrauma scientists to become leaders in advancing research that improves the lives of people with spinal cord injury (SCI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Trainees will be equipped to develop and translate novel therapeutic, rehabilitative, behavioral, and technological strategies that reduce disability and promote health, independence, and quality of life across the lifespan. This goal will be met by taking advantage of an exceptionally rich institutional environment that offers myriad resources and a complementary and collaborative team of 17 primary and 16 secondary mentors committed to training and career development. The program is further enriched by the inclusion of 16 lived-experience mentors—eight individuals with SCI and eight with TBI—with varied backgrounds and injury experiences. Predoctoral trainees will benefit from 2 years of interdisciplinary training that carefully melds four core levels of scientific inquiry: (i) adaptation and plasticity, (ii) rehabilitation diagnostics and interventions, (iii) novel devices and technologies, and (iv) chronic symptom management. Training will occur in one of two areas of concentrated expertise: (i) SCI or (ii) TBI. Predoctoral trainees will be selected from a highly competitive national pool admitted to the Neuroscience, Psychology, or Health and Rehabilitation Science Graduate programs. The training team is truly interdisciplinary. Each trainee’s primary mentor and Translational Mentoring Team will be drawn from expert faculty spanning the Colleges of Medicine (COM), Education and Human Ecology (CEHE), Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CFAES), and Engineering (COE). Neuro-RISE also offers a distinctly immersive and human-centered training experience that integrates people with lived experience of SCI or TBI into each trainee’s research project—bringing real-world insights directly into scientific inquiry. The program promotes bench-to-bedside and bedside-to-bench translation by preparing trainees to apply mechanistic discoveries to clinical care and interpret clinical phenomena through rigorous scientific inquiry. Trainees will participate in a curated curriculum that includes commercialization and team science training, advanced methods seminars tailored to neurotrauma research, and a community-engaged research workshop co-led by individuals with SCI and TBI. With intentional focus on research ethics, scientific rigor, and impact-driven scholarship, Neuro-RISE prepares emerging scientists not only to publish, but to lead multidisciplinary teams, secure competitive funding, and transform care for people with neurotrauma across the lifespan. Neuro-RISE will recruit two predoctoral trainees in year one, then grow to admit four annually thereafter. As a top-tier NIH-funded academic medical center, The Ohio State University is uniquely positioned to train translational neurotrauma researchers poised to lead future innovations.

Intermountain Health

Supports community health improvement initiatives in the Mountain West, focusing on access to care, behavioral health, food security, and healthy living.

Islamic Relief USA

One of the largest Muslim-American charities ($100M+/yr). Provides humanitarian aid, disaster relief, food security, and community development in the U.S. and worldwide.

Islamic Relief USA

Provides humanitarian aid, disaster relief, and community development support in the U.S. and worldwide. Funds food security, education, and health programs.

JM Smucker Foundation

Funds education, food security, and community development in Smucker communities.

European Commission - HORIZON

Joint demonstration of solutions to build soil resilience to extreme weather events and support food security . Call: Joint Call between the Soil Deal for Europe Mission and the Adaptation to Climate Change Mission. Programme: HORIZON. Keywords: Agriculture, Climate change adaptation, Climatology and climate change, Ecosystem services provided by soils, Science, environment, weather, Soil conservation, Soil ecology, Soil erosion, Soil functions, Soil improvement, Soil management, Soil physics, Soil protection. Open call from the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.

Kroger

Focuses on eliminating hunger in local communities through food banks, meal programs, and food security initiatives.

Agricultural Marketing Service

Micro-Grants for Food Security Program

Agricultural Marketing Service

MGFSP assists agricultural agencies or departments in eligible states and territories to increase the quantity and quality of locally grown food in food insecure communities through small-scale gardening, herding, and livestock operations by competitively distributing subawards to eligible entities.USDA promotes climate-resilient landscapes and rural economic systems, including tools to support agriculture, forests, grazing lands, and rural communities. AMS encourages applicants to consider including goals and activities related to reducing and stabilizing the levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere or adapting to the already occurring climate change in their project"s design and implementation.

Agricultural Marketing Service

MGFSP assists agricultural agencies or departments in eligible states and territories to increase the quantity and quality of locally grown food in food insecure communities through small-scale gardening, herding, and livestock operations by competitively distributing subawards to eligible entities.USDA promotes climate-resilient landscapes and rural economic systems, including tools to support agriculture, forests, grazing lands, and rural communities. AMS encourages applicants to consider including goals and activities related to reducing and stabilizing the levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere or adapting to the already occurring climate change in their project"s design and implementation.

New Holly Youth & Family P-Patch

A P-Patch fence around the 390' exterior perimeter is needed for the safety and security of community participants. Problems we want to address include: physical threats to gardeners (many of whom are older and immigrants), theft of garden tools, damage to the storage shed, and transients staying overnight in the storage shed. A problem unique to our large immigrant gardening population is that stolen produce significantly compounds common food insecurity. This is because these gardeners grow produce with which they are familiar and use a lot, but which is hard to find in local grocery stores.

Troll's Knoll Gardeners Summer Committee

The Troll's Knoll Gardeners Summer Committee will host a public Night Out event on August 6, 2019 from 5 pm - 9 pm at Troll's Knoll P-Patch located at 820 N 36th St. The event will promote crime prevention, urban agriculture, and community food security.

Golden Field Office

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), intends to issue, on behalf of USDA?s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and DOE?s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), a Request for Applications (RFA) entitled ?Fiscal Year 15 Biomass Research and Development Initiative (?BRDI?).? The RFA will address USDA and DOE programmatic objectives, administrative roles, and areas of interest in implementing Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI) grants. Section 9001(a) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (FCEA) (Pub. L. 110-246) re-authorized the BRDI competitive grants program by amending section 9008 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (FSRIA), as amended, (Pub. L. 107-171) (7 U.S.C. 8108). For fiscal year (FY) 2015, BRDI will require that funded projects address only one (1) of the following three (3) legislatively mandated technical areas: 1. Feedstocks development ? The intent of this Topic Area is to address research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) activities regarding feedstocks and feedstock logistics (including harvest, handling, transport, preprocessing, and storage) relevant to production of raw materials for conversion to biofuels and biobased products. The BRDI program is designed to support near-term commercial systems. Projects should emphasize development and optimization of existing feedstocks that will be available for testing and demonstration during the life of the project. Proposals that include breeding or genetic improvement of feedstocks should reconcile this work with the Program?s emphasis on near-term impacts. 2. Biofuels and biobased products development ? The intent of this Topic Area is to address RD&D activities to support (i) development of diverse cost-effective technologies for the use of cellulosic biomass in the production of biofuels, bioenergy, and biobased products; and, (ii) product diversification through technologies relevant to the production of a range of biobased products (including chemicals, animal feeds, and cogeneration power) that potentially can increase the feasibility of fuel production in a biorefinery. 3. Biofuels development analysis ? The intent of this Topic Area is to apply systems evaluation methods that can be used to optimize system performance and market potential and to quantify the project?s impact on sustainability; therefore, successful applications will consider the lifecycle (cradle-to-grave) impacts including environmental, social, and economic implications that are attributable to the project. Successful projects should include these sustainability data in engineering process models and be used over the life of the project to improve the system and quantify sustainability impacts. This Notice is issued so that interested parties are aware of NIFA's and EERE's intention to issue a RFA in the near term. NO APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED THROUGH THIS NOTICE. Please do not submit questions or respond to this Notice of Intent. Prospective applicants to the RFA should begin developing partnerships, formulating ideas, and gathering data in anticipation of the issuance of this RFA. It is anticipated that the RFA will be posted to Grants.gov in November 2014.

Health Resources and Services Administration

This four-year funding opportunity is supported by the HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part F: Special Projects of National Significance Program. This Special Projects of National Significance initiative uses implementation science to adapt, implement and evaluate interventions that improve food and nutrition security for people with HIV who are eligible for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program"s medical nutrition therapy, food bank/home delivered meals, and other applicable service categories. Details about the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program service categories are noted in Policy Clarification Notice 16-02: Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Services: Eligible Individuals & Allowable Uses of Funds. HRSA will fund one recipient to serve as the Implementation Technical Assistance Provider to select the intervention, create a network of demonstration sites, provide technical assistance to the demonstration sites to implement the intervention, create materials to assist organizations to implement the intervention, and support evaluation activities. The intervention and implementation materials must align with Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program service categories and promote adoption of the intervention among Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funded organizations.

Health Resources and Services Administration

This four-year funding opportunity is supported by the HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part F: Special Projects of National Significance Program. This Special Projects of National Significance initiative uses implementation science to adapt, implement and evaluate interventions that improve food and nutrition security for people with HIV who are eligible for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program"s medical nutrition therapy, food bank/home delivered meals, and other applicable service categories. Details about the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program service categories are noted in Policy Clarification Notice 16-02: Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Services: Eligible Individuals & Allowable Uses of Funds. HRSA will fund one recipient to serve as the Implementation Technical Assistance Provider to select the intervention, create a network of demonstration sites, provide technical assistance to the demonstration sites to implement the intervention, create materials to assist organizations to implement the intervention, and support evaluation activities. The intervention and implementation materials must align with Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program service categories and promote adoption of the intervention among Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funded organizations.