Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA NIFA RIGP 009763
The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is offering a discretionary grant opportunity titled Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas Agriculture and Food Science Facilities and Equipment Program for Insular Areas (Funding Opportunity Number: USDA NIFA RIGP 009763; CFDA: 10.308). The overall goal is to promote and strengthen the capacity of colleges and universities in the U.S. Insular Areas to deliver high-quality education and, where applicable, to improve the facilities and equipment needed to support agricultural research that is especially relevant to tropical and subtropical conditions. In practical terms, the program is meant to help these institutions build stronger academic programs, improve learning resources and instructional capability, and address local workforce and community needs connected to food, agriculture, and natural resources.
This opportunity covers two related program areas with distinct focuses. The first is the Resident Instruction Grants for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas (RIIA). RIIA projects are geared toward strengthening institutional educational capacity in the food, agricultural, and natural resource sciences. The funding can support a range of improvements such as upgrading libraries and learning resources, developing or modernizing curriculum, supporting faculty capacity, purchasing scientific instrumentation used for instruction, improving instruction delivery systems (including technology that enables teaching and learning), and enhancing student recruitment and retention. The intent is to help institutions respond more effectively to local and regional education needs in food and agricultural sciences, including preparing students for careers that matter to island economies and ecosystems.
The second is the Agriculture and Food Sciences Facilities and Equipment (AGFEI) program. AGFEI is more infrastructure-focused and supports the acquisition, improvement, or renovation of facilities and the purchase of relevant equipment needed to conduct agricultural research. It is specifically tied to research that supports tropical and subtropical agriculture, including work on pests and diseases, which are often major constraints in island and warm-climate production systems. While RIIA leans toward education and instructional strengthening, AGFEI emphasizes the physical and technical capacity to conduct research that can directly support resilient local agriculture.
Eligibility depends on which of the two program components an applicant is pursuing, and meeting the requirements in the Request for Applications (RFA) is critical because failure to meet eligibility by the deadline can result in an application being excluded from consideration. For the RIIA program, eligible applicants are institutions of higher education (as defined under section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act) located in an Insular Area and able to demonstrate capacity to carry out teaching and extension in the food and agricultural sciences. RIIA eligibility is broad within that scope: public or nonprofit accredited 2-year and 4-year institutions that offer certificates or degrees in food and agricultural sciences can apply. AGFEI eligibility is narrower: only individual land-grant colleges and universities, or institutions that have obtained land-grant status through federal legislation, located in the Insular Areas are eligible to apply as individual applicants for AGFEI funds.
The Insular Areas explicitly covered are American Samoa; the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; the Federated States of Micronesia; Guam; the Republic of the Marshall Islands; the Republic of Palau; and the United States Virgin Islands. In addition to standalone institutions, separately accredited degree-granting branches within a territory university system may apply and be treated as separate eligible institutions for purposes of both RIIA and AGFEI, as long as they meet the program definitions. Independent branch campuses may also apply and receive awards, again provided they otherwise meet the definition of an eligible institution.
A key administrative requirement is certification of eligibility at the time of application. Non-land-grant institutions must submit a letter signed by the institution's Authorized Representative certifying that the applicant meets the RFA's definition of an eligible institution. The certification must address core characteristics of an eligible institution, including that it admits regular students with a secondary school completion credential (or equivalent), is legally authorized by the territory to provide postsecondary education, offers a bachelor degree program or at least a 2-year program acceptable for full credit toward a bachelor degree, and is public or nonprofit. Accreditation is also required, either through a nationally recognized accrediting agency or through a recognized pre-accreditation status where there is satisfactory assurance the institution will meet accreditation standards within a reasonable time.
From a funding perspective, the opportunity is administered as a grant program through NIFA under the Agriculture funding activity category. The posted award ceiling is $600,000. The opportunity record lists an original closing date of May 15, 2023, and a creation date of March 16, 2023. Applicants that are newer to federal financial assistance are encouraged to review NIFA's grants overview resources to better understand the federal award lifecycle and expectations, since compliance with eligibility and application instructions is an important part of being considered for funding.Apply for USDA NIFA RIGP 009763
- The National Institute of Food and Agriculture in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas Agriculture and Food Science Facilities and Equipment Program for Insular Areas" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.308.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2023-03-16.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2023-05-15. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $600,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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