The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC), operating through the Risk Management Agency (RMA), announces its intent to award up to $2 million to fund the Risk Management Education Partnership Program.
Donor Name: Risk Management Education
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/24/2023
Size of the Grant: $300,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
The purpose of this competitive program is to deliver crop insurance education and risk management training to U.S. agricultural producers to assist them in identifying and managing production, marketing, legal, financial, and human risk. The program gives priority to:
- educating producers of crops currently not insured under Federal crop insurance, specialty crops, and underserved commodities, including livestock and forage; and
- providing collaborative partnerships to develop and deliver crop insurance education and other risk management training. Education activities developed under the Risk Management Education Partnership Program will provide U.S. farmers and ranchers, including limited resource and other traditionally under-served farmers and ranchers with training and information opportunities to be able to understand: i. The kinds of risks addressed by existing and emerging risk management tools; ii. The features and appropriate use of existing and emerging risk management tools; and iii. How to make sound risk management decisions.
Goal
The goal of this program is to ensure that “ producers will be better able to use financial management, farm financial benchmarking, crop insurance, marketing contracts, and other existing and emerging risk management tools.” One of RMA’s strategic goals is to ensure that producers are well informed of the risk management solutions available to them. This educational goal is supported by Section 522(d)(3)(F) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (FCIA) (7 U.S.C. § 1522(d)(3)(F)), which authorizes FCIC funding for risk management training and informational efforts for agricultural producers through the formation of partnerships with public and private organizations. Cooperative Agreements are awarded with the goal that FCIC will fund crop insurance and risk management projects that are likely to become self-sustaining and not indefinitely dependent on FCIC funds. With respect to such partnerships, priority is to be given to reaching producers of Priority Commodities, as defined below. A project is considered as giving priority to Priority Commodities if 75 percent of the educational and training activities of the project are directed to producers of any one of the three classes of commodities listed in the definition of Priority Commodities or any combination of the three classes.
Top Priorities include
Whole-Farm Revenue Protection (WFRP) and Micro Farm Training
- Equity and Opportunity
- Crop Insurance Education to Tribes
- Local Foods and Urban Ag
- Organic and Specialty Crops
- Transitional and Organic Grower Assistance (TOGA)
- Climate Smart Ag
- Hurricane Insurance Protection -Wind Index Endorsement (HIP-WI)
- Wildfires
- Post Application Coverage Endorsement (PACE)
- Other Agency Priorities
- Crop Insurance 101
- Rainfall Index Insurance: Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF)/Annual Forage/Apiculture
- All Livestock Products
- Margin Protection
- Revenue Protection
- Double Cropping
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $2,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $300,000
- Award Floor: $5,000
Performance Period
Projects will be 12 months in duration.
Eligible Applicants
Applicants and applications must meet eligibility criteria by the application deadline to be considered for award. Eligible applicant type is determined by the implementing program statute. Applicant entities identified in the SAM.gov exclusions database as ineligible, prohibited/restricted, or excluded from receiving Federal contracts and certain Federal assistance and benefits will not be considered for Federal funding, as applicable to the funding being requested under this Federal program (2 CFR 200.206(d)).
Eligibility for this opportunity is limited to the following entity types:
- City or township governments
- County governments
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS (other than institutions of higher education)
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c)(3) status with the IRS (other than institutions of higher education)
- Nonprofits registered as 501(c)4 or 501(c)5
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State-controlled institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Small businesses
- Special district governments
- State governments
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
