The U.S. Department of Agriculture – Risk Management Agency is accepting applications for its Risk Management Education Partnership Program o 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.
Donor Name: U.S. Department of Agriculture
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/11/2022
Grant Size: $200,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
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.
Priorities
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.
Funding Information
- The total amount of Federal funding the agency expects to award through this opportunity is up to $2 million.
- Award Ceiling: $200,000
- Award Floor: $5,000
- Projects will be 12 months in duration. Applicants should plan their projects based on an estimated project start date no later than September 30, 2022.
Eligibility Criteria
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.
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.
