Funding-Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants; January 18, 2011

 

Agency Name

 

USDA 

 

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-003355

 

Due Date: Jan 18, 2011   

 

Link to Full Announcement

 

http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/sec_challenge.html  

 

Contact Information

 

NIFA Help Desk
Phone: 202-401-5048
Business hours are M-F, 7:00 am -5:00 pm ET, excluding Federal holidays

electronic@nifa.usda.gov