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From: Proposal Development Office
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 12:10 PM
Subject: **Grants.gov - USDA - Research Planning Grants To Support Application
of Behavioral Economics in USDA's Child Nutrition Programs: Request for
Applications
Funding-Behavioral
Economics in USDA's Child Nutrition Programs; May
17, 2010
Agency
Economic
Research Service
Description
The
Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program (FANRP) of USDA’s Economic ResearchService (ERS) and the USDA’s Food and Nutrition
Service (FNS) announce the availability of funds and a request for applications
for planning grants to promote new research in methods to improve children’s
eating habits through USDA’s child nutrition programs. The planning grants will
focus on developing research capacity in behavioral economic strategies and
interventions that can be applied to child nutrition programs to improve
children's food choices and reduce the prevalence of obesity. The activities
that the planning grants will support include fostering research relationships
between researchers and State or local implementing agencies, testing concepts
and methods in small-scale pilots, developing and testing data collection
methodologies, and sponsoring workshops to improve understanding of an
understudied aspect of the application of behavioral economics to child
nutrition programs. FANRP will accept proposals under this program for funding
levels of up to $30,000 for a period not to exceed 15 months.
Announcement
Number:
FANRP2010-003
Closing
Date:
May 17, 2010
Link
to Full Announcement
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/ap/ap045/
Contact
Information
David
Smallwood
Deputy Dir for Food Asst. Res.
Phone 202-694-5466 email