Funding-USDA - Secondary Agriculture Education Challenge Grant Program

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 the food, agriculture, natural resources and human (FANH) sciences in order to help ensure the existence in the United States of a qualified workforce to serve the FANH sciences system; and (b) promote complementary and synergistic linkages among secondary, two-year postsecondary, and higher education programs in the FANH sciences in order to advance excellence in education and encourage more young Americans to pursue and complete a baccalaureate or higher degree in the FANH sciences.

Announcement Number:

USDA-NIFA-SAECP-006187

Closing Date:

Mar 10, 2017

Link to Full Announcement

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=291216

Contact Information

Victoria LeBeaux

(202) 720-2067

victoria.s.lebeaux@nifa.usda.gov