Grant Funding Opportunities
ERS issues cooperative agreements and grant awards, and works
with land-grant partners and others on plans of work and other
administrative matters. ERS sponsors two major competitive grants
and cooperative agreements programs:
- The Food Assistance
and Nutrition Research Program (FANRP) at ERS funds economic
research on USDA's domestic food and nutrition assistance programs.
These programs include the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP, formerly the Food Stamp Program); the Special
Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
(WIC); and child nutrition programs, such as the National School
Lunch and School Breakfast Programs. The purpose of the research is
to meet the critical information needs of the Administration,
Congress, program managers, policy officials, clients, the research
community, and the public at large. Major research themes of FANRP
are diet and nutritional outcomes, food program targeting and
delivery, and program dynamics and administration.
FANRP funds extramural research through grants, cooperative
agreements, and contracts that are competitively awarded through a
tightly run peer review process. The publication Food Assistance and
Nutrition Research Program, Final Report: Fiscal 2010
Activities has descriptions of past awards. Information on Research
Funding Opportunities describes opportunities to submit
proposals for grants and cooperative agreements.
For information about all Federal funding opportunities, visit
http://www.grants.gov/.
ERS-Issued Significant Guidance Documents
All ERS awards are governed by the appropriate Federal and
agency-specific regulations (for example, OMB Circulars and the
Code of Federal Regulations). Please refer to the request for
applications, the award document, or the content of the regulations
for applicable regulatory information or guidance.
| Title |
Issuing Office |
Date of Issuance |
Applies to/Interprets |
| FANRP Competitive Grants and
Cooperative Agreements Program |
Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program
(FANRP), Economic Research Service, USDA |
Annually, last issued in March 2008 |
7 CFR 3019, 7 CFR Part 3015, 7 CFR Part 3016, 7
USC 3318b |
| PREISM
Competitive Award Program |
Program of Research on the Economics of Invasive
Species Management (PREISM), Economic Research Service, USDA |
Inactive, last issued in March 2008 |
7 CFR 3019, 7 CFR Part 3015, 7 CFR Part 3016, 7
USC 3318b |
| EMAGG Competitive
Award Program |
Resources and Rural Economics Division, Economic Research
Service, USDA
|
Inactive, last issued in May 2010 |
7 CFR 3019, 7 CFR Part 3015, 7 CFR Part 3016, 7
USC 3318b |
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published two Federal
Register Notices on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 (69 FR 26275 and 69 FR
26281). The Notices implement changes affecting the location of
policy guidance for grants and other agreements.
In the first notice, 
OMB
established a single title in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
(i.e., title 2 of the CFR) along with two subtitles (i.e.,
subtitles A and B). Subtitle A of title 2 is to house OMB's
guidance to Federal agencies for grants and agreements. Subtitle B
of title 2 will house agency regulations implementing the OMB
guidance.
By way of the second notice, OMB
relocates the existing OMB Circular A-110 to title 2 in the CFR,
subtitle A, chapter II, subchapter B, part 215.
Contact Information
Members of the public
who wish to request that the agency issue, reconsider, modify, or
rescind a significant guidance document, or to complain that the
agency is not following the procedures in OMB's Bulletin or is
improperly treating a significant guidance document as a binding
requirement, may do so by contacting Greg Pompelli.
See also USDA
Significant Guidance Documents
Also visit http://www.regulations.gov/ to view
and comment on regulations and other actions for Federal
agencies.