The Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is soliciting proposals to fund cooperative agreements to improve farmworker communities’ understanding of the Worker Protection Standard (WPS), agricultural pesticide safety, and related rights through training, the development of trainings and materials, and outreach.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/19/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 4 Years
Details:
The purpose of these cooperative agreements is to protect human health by helping prevent pesticide illness in farmworker communities. The goal of these cooperative agreements is to prevent pesticide illness by improving farmworker communities’ understanding of the Worker Protection Standard (WPS), agricultural pesticide safety, and related rights.
The cooperative agreements will involve farmworker communities and organizations. This involvement will make training and materials more culturally appropriate, which aims to increase their effectiveness. Under the NOFO, two different types of cooperative agreements are offered:
- The Type 1 agreement will train farmworker communities nationally (across rural areas in many states and territories). It will focus on the required, EPA approved WPS trainings for workers and handlers.
- The Type 2 agreement is for a subaward program. The grant recipient will distribute funds to other organizations for education and outreach projects with farmworker communities. Projects will focus on topics in agricultural pesticide safety that supplement or reinforce the WPS requirements. They will be local and regional (relating to a particular area or part of the country).
Objectives
The cooperative agreements have these objectives:
- Develop or improve training programs, materials, and outreach for farmworker communities on the WPS, agricultural pesticide safety, and related rights.
- Improve farmworker communities’ understanding of the WPS, agricultural pesticide safety, and related rights.
- Ensure trainings, materials, and outreach take into account farmworkers’ primary languages, reading levels, and culture.
- Involve farmworkers and farmworker organizations in the design of pesticide safety education.
- Evaluate activities and share lessons learned, with farmworkers’ input.
Funding Information
The total funding for these cooperative agreements is estimated to be up to $6.3 million over 5 years.
- Funding for the Type 1 Award – National Farmworker Training Program
- The award is expected to be up to $2.5 million over a five-year grant cycle.
- The award recipient is expected to receive an estimated $300,000 in the first project year and no more than $600,000 per year for the remaining four years.
- Funding for the Type 2 Award –Farmworker Community Pesticide Education Subaward Program
- The award is expected to be up to $3.8 million over a five-year grant cycle.
- The award recipient is expected to receive an estimated $300,000 in the first project year and no more than $900,000 per year for the remaining four years.
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations eligible to apply by themselves lead partners are “community-based farmworker nonprofit organizations.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
