The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), requests applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Farm and Food Workers Relief (FFWR) Grant Program.
Donor Name: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Country: United States, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
State: All States
Type of Grant: Grant
Type of Entity: State Agencies, Tribal Entities, and Non-profit Organizations
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/08/2022
Size of the Grant: $50,000,000
Grant Duration: 24 months (2 years)
Details:
The Farm and Food Workers Relief grant program provides financial support to eligible entities (i.e., State agencies, Tribal entities, and non-profit organizations) to deliver relief in the form of $600 flat-rate payments to eligible farmworkers, meatpacking workers, and grocery store workers who incurred expenses preparing for preventing exposure to, and responding to, the COVID-19 pandemic. This relief is intended to defray costs for reasonable and necessary personal, family, or living expenses such as, but not limited to: costs for personal protective equipment (PPE), expenses associated with quarantines and testing, and dependent care.
Project Types
FFWR offers two project types:
- Farmworkers and/or Meatpacking Workers
- Grocery Store Workers
Applicants must select one project type per application. Applicants seeking to apply for both project types must submit a separate application for each project. Applicants seeking funds to serve grocery store workers must also apply to serve farmworkers and/or meatpacking workers.
Priority Areas
AMS will prioritize applications that:
- Demonstrate the capability to create and disseminate culturally-appropriate communication tools and resources.
- Coordinate with other local, regional, State, Tribal, or national farm and food worker relief efforts.
- Demonstrate multiple partnerships in one or more geographic regions.
- Exhibit financial management systems sufficient to distribute a high volume of payments to eligible beneficiaries with robust fiscal controls.
Funding Information
- Not including AMS administrative expenses, it is anticipated that approximately $665,000,000 will be available to fund applications to FFWR in FY2022. AMS will set aside up to a total of $20,000,000 of this amount for one or more grant agreements to benefit grocery store workers.
- Applicants for farmworkers or meatpacking workers support may request more than the maximum amount when they demonstrate they are a national organization with capacity to deliver funds in excess of $50,000,000 across multiple states and in partnership with smaller farmworker or meatpacking worker organizations.
- FFWR projects are awarded for a period of 24 months (2 years), although it is acceptable to complete a project before the scheduled performance period end date.
Eligible Entities
- Eligible entities are State agencies, Tribal entities, or nonprofits with State or IRS 501 (c) status, where no part of the organization’s or institution’s net earnings inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual, that have experience in providing support or relief services to farmworkers, meatpacking workers, or grocery store workers.
- Eligible entities must be domestic entities owned, operated, and located within the geographic area of the United States, including the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
- All eligible entities must demonstrate that they have experience in providing support or relief services to farmworkers, meatpacking workers, or grocery store workers. Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Providing personal protective equipment such as masks to such workers, Hosting a COVID-19 vaccine clinic or outreach campaign, or
- Providing financial support to such workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
