2009 Sustainable Community Innovation Grants RFP Released
The Sustainable Community Innovation Grants program is seeking to invest in projects that embrace and invest in local strategies that are intended to link farm and nonfarm economic development with agricultural and natural resource management. This partnership of the Southern Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Program and the Southern Rural Development Center (SRDC) encourages applicants who seek to increase knowledge, build capacity, and make connections among on- and off-farm sustainable agriculture activities, economic and community development efforts, value-added activities, civic engagement, and local government policy. As outlined in the RFP, the SARE/SRDC partners remain interested in proposals that focus on entrepreneurship efforts and on value-added activities that build on the agricultural and nonagricultural assets of communities. These include efforts to establish entrepreneurial-friendly communities that help support and sustain value-added entrepreneurship endeavors. The proposals are due October 5, 2009. For more information, view the RFP at http://www.southernsare.uga.edu/currentcalls/sci.doc.
Expanding Agriculture/Community Stability Efforts
Blending sustainable agriculture practices with new community development strategies, the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program serves to increase and build resilient farms, businesses and communities. Furthermore, SARE promotes the application of innovative new tools to support sustainable community development activities. The national outreach office of the SARE program is supported by the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The SARE searchable database contains general information about all SARE projects. Reports are not filed for at least one year after initial funding.
The Sustainable Community Innovation Grants Program
The Southern SARE Program and the Southern Rural Development Center are interested in investing in Sustainable Community Innovation Grants -- projects that work to strengthen both agriculture and Southern communities by building explicit linkages between sustainable agriculture and community development. Such efforts help improve and advance an understanding of the mutual benefits that accrue to both agriculture and community when such key linkages are established and maintained. The Sustainable Community Innovation Grants program is seeking to invest in projects that embrace and invest in local strategies that are intended to link sound farm and nonfarm economic development with agricultural and natural resource management. Applications are encouraged that seek to increase knowledge, build capacity, and make connections among on- and off-farm sustainable agriculture activities, economic and community development efforts, value-added activities, civic engagement, and local government policy.
The 2008 RFP proposal deadline has passed. View 2008 RFP
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