Funding- USDA-Secondary
Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12
Classroom (SPECA) Challenge Grant Program, March 18, 2016
Agency
Department
of Agriculture
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Description
The
Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the
K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants (SPECA) program seeks to: (a) promote and
strengthen secondary education and two-year postsecondary education in agriscience and agribusiness in order to help ensure the
existence in the United States of a qualified workforce to serve the food and
agricultural sciences system; and (b) promote complementary and synergistic
linkages among secondary, two-year postsecondary, and higher education programs
in the food and agricultural sciences in order to advance excellence in
education and encourage more young Americans to pursue and complete a
baccalaureate or higher degree in the food and agricultural sciences.
Announcement
Number:
USDA-NIFA-SAECP-005616
Closing
Date:
Mar
18, 2016
Link
to Full Announcement
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=281049
Contact
Information
Victoria
LeBeaux
(202)
720-2067
victoria.s.lebeaux@nifa.usda.gov