Supplemental and Alternative Crops Competitive Grants Program (USDA)

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31521
• Published date: 21 January 2021
• Date: 21 January 2021

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Grants alert (cont.)

of key audiences and in achieving desired behavior

change results; identifying the messages that will have

the greatest effectiveness in achieving the desired

invasive species prevention behaviors moving forward;

determining whether other state or regional prevention

brands or messages, used singularly or in combination

with the national campaigns listed above, help to

achieve behavior change among outdoor recreational

users to limit the spread of invasive species; and

evaluating whether the current approach to co-branding

the campaigns included in the MOU is effective.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# F21AS00229

Global Media Makers (DOS)

Scope: The State Department’s Bureau of Educational

and Cultural Affairs seeks applications for the FY21

Global Media Makers announcement to conduct an

innovative professional development program for lm,

television, and online episodic content creators from

participating countries to enhance their creative skills.

Deadline: March 16, 2021.

Funds: $1.3 million total for one award.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; and nonprot

organizations.

Areas: DOS said this program will focus on in-

development lm, television, and online episodic content

(“projects”) and match fellows’ areas of interest with

mentor expertise. Fellows will travel to the United States

for a four-to-six-week residency, which will primarily take

place in Los Angeles, to work on projects with mentors

and receive state-of-the-art training and industry access

to support conceptual development of independent,

authentic, and compelling content for distribution in their

home countries. Following the residency, mentors will

travel to a select number of the fellows’ home countries,

when possible, for continued creative consultation and

engagement. Both mentors and fellows will mutually

benet from the extended creative and professional

development, which will promote critical thinking and

dialogue, leading to greater creative and entrepreneurial

connections.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# SFOP0007508

Regional Infrastructure Accelerators (DOT)

Scope: The Transportation Department’s Build

America Bureau seeks applications for the Regional

Infrastructure Accelerators (RIA) announcement to

provide assistance and act as a resource to regional

entities as they develop transportation infrastructure

programs and projects that could be eligible for DOT

credit assistance.

Deadline: March 31, 2021.

Funds: $5 million total for up to ve awards ranging from

$100,000 to $2 million.

Eligibility: Public and state colleges and universities;

and state, local, special district, and Native American

tribal governments.

Areas: DOT said projects must: 1) serve a dened

geographic area; 2) act as a resource to qualied entities

in the geographic area in accordance with Section 1441

of the FAST Act; and 3) demonstrate the effectiveness

of an RIA to accelerate the delivery of eligible projects

through the bureau’s innovative nancing programs

including the TIFIA credit program, and, to the extent

applicable, the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement

Financing (RRIF) credit program, Private Activity Bonds,

and other innovative nancing methods.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# DOTBAB202012

Special Research Grants Program Potato

Research (USDA)

Scope: The Agriculture Department’s National

Institute of Food and Agriculture seeks applications

for the Special Research Grants Program Potato

Research announcement to support potato (Solanum

tuberosum L.) research programs that focus on

varietal development, testing, and potato varieties for

commercial production.

Deadline: April 16, 2021.

Funds: $2.56 million total for awards ranging from

$130,000 to $900,000.

Eligibility: State agricultural experiment stations, land-

grant colleges and universities, research foundations

established by land-grant colleges and universities,

colleges and universities receiving funds under the

1962 McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research

Act, and accredited schools or colleges of veterinary

medicine.

Areas: USDA said varietal development and testing

is research using conventional breeding and/or

biotechnological genetics to develop improved potato

varieties. Aspects of evaluation, screening, and testing

must support variety development.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# USDA-NIFA-SRGP-008078

Supplemental and Alternative Crops

Competitive Grants Program (USDA)

Scope: The Agriculture Department’s National Institute

of Food and Agriculture seeks applications for the

Supplemental and Alternative Crops (SAC) Competitive

Grants Program announcement to support projects that

lead to expanded adaptation and increased acres in the

United States of canola grown for oil and industrial hemp

grown for value-added products.

Deadline: March 30, 2021.

Funds: $930,000 total for awards of up to $225,000.

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