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WIC
Special Project Grants
Fiscal Year
2004
Background
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. Furthermore, it is important that projects
do not operate in isolation and that the results of the projects are
widely disseminated to other State Agencies.
For the FY 2004 WIC Special Project Grant solicitation,
FNS is designating a specific focus area for the grants with a range of
possible projects. The grants will be awarded as cooperative agreements.
States awarded full grant funding in FY 2004 will work cooperatively as a
multi-site team on complementary projects around the RQNS theme. A lead
State will be designated to coordinate the grantees participating in this
intergovernmental, multi-state project. Extensive dissemination of the
results of successful projects is expected so that other State agencies
will have the opportunity to replicate projects and/or learn from the
results.
In addition to the full grant awards for FY 2004, concept
paper funding, also begun in FY 1999, will continue to be available this
year as well. Concept paper funding for FY 2004 will be used to develop a
concept paper into a full grant proposal for the FY 2005 solicitation
cycle.
The theme for the FY 2004 WIC Special Project Grants and
the FY 2004 Concept Papers is "Revitalizing Quality Nutrition
Services in WIC." The specific focus will be on projects that
address counseling methods to improve consumption of fruits and vegetables
among WIC participants. Concept papers funded in FY 2003 are assumed to
meet the FY 2004 RQNS requirement.
Timeline
Critical dates for the FY 2004 WIC Special Project Grants
are as follows:
| June 1 |
Intent to Submit and Application Form
due to FNS (only applies to full grant)
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| July 1 |
Applications for full grant and concept
paper due to FNS
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| September 30 |
Funds available to awardees |
FY 2004 WIC Special Project Grant
Application Package
Application For Federal
Assistance Forms:
Certification Forms:
WIC Special Project Grant
Evaluation Resources
The following guides are provided to assist WIC State
Agencies in developing the evaluation component of their proposals:
WIC
Special Project Grants Evaluation Technical Assistance Guide: This
guide was developed by KRA corporation in 1996 to assist WIC develop
evaluation plans for their WIC Special Project Grant applications. The
guide was designed to supplement the WIC Evaluation Resource Guide.
WIC
Evaluation Resource Guide: This guide was developed by FNS staff in
1991 and is a more general WIC evaluation guide.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact
Lisa Johnson, Grants Management Division, via email at lisa.johnson@fns.usda.gov.
Last modified: 12/04/2008
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