Deadline: 28-Mar-23
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) requests applications for the Alaska Native-Serving and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions Education Competitive Grants Program (ANNH) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 to promote and strengthen the ability of Alaska Native-Serving Institutions and Native HawaiianServing Institutions to carry out education, applied research, and extension community development programs.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $5,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
- Award Floor: $150,000
Types of Projects
The ANNH Grants Program is soliciting applications for the following project types:
- Education/Teaching Projects: Single-function Education/Teaching Projects conduct programs and activities that have formal classroom instruction, laboratory instruction, and practicum experience in FANH and may also support faculty development, student recruitment and services, curriculum development, instructional materials and equipment, and innovative teaching methodologies.
- Extension Projects. Single-function Extension Projects must deliver science-based knowledge and informal educational programs that lead to practical decision making. Program delivery may range from community-based to national audiences and use communication methods from face-to-face to electronic or a combination thereof.
- Research Projects. Single-function Research Projects support applied research conducted by individual investigators, or co-investigators within the same discipline, or multidisciplinary teams. Applied research means research that includes expansion of the findings of fundamental research to uncover practical ways in which new knowledge can be advanced to benefit individuals and society.
- Integrated Research, Education and Extension Projects. An Integrated Project includes at least two of the three functions of the agricultural knowledge system (research, education, and extension) within a project. Some Integrated Project applications include all three components of the agricultural knowledge system.
Types of Grants
- Standard Grant: Supports targeted, original projects. Applicants must be an eligible ANNH institution (two or 4-year independent branch campus, or branch institution of a State system) with project activities to be undertaken principally on behalf of and for the benefit of the lead applicant. Applicants may partner with other ANNH or non-ANNH without the requirement of sharing grant funds with other project partners.
- Collaborative Grant: Supports projects with at least one additional partner or a multi-partner approach to enhance education, extension, research, or integrated programs. Collaborative Grants build linkages to generate a critical mass of expertise, skill, and technology to address education/teaching, extension, research, or integrated programs related to the food, agricultural, natural resources, and human sciences.
Activities
- NIFA is soliciting applications for the ANNH Grants Program that support:
- Activities of collaborative membership of Alaska Native-Serving or Native HawaiianServing Institutions to enhance educational equity for underrepresented students;
- Strengthening institutional education capacities, including libraries, curriculum, faculty, scientific instrumentation, instruction delivery systems, and student recruitment and retention, to respond to identified state, regional, national, or international educational needs in the food, agricultural, natural resources, and human (FANH) sciences;
- Undergraduate and graduate students from underrepresented groups to prepare them for careers related to the food, agricultural and natural resource systems and sciences and beginning with the mentoring of students from K-12, and continuing with the provision of financial support for students through their attainment of a doctoral degree; and
- Cooperative initiatives between at least two or more Alaska Native-Serving or Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions, which may work in cooperation with one or more other entities including units of State government and private sector organizations, to maximize the development and use of resources, such as faculty, facilities, and equipment, to improve FANH education programs.
- Applications for the ANNH Grants Program will include activities that:
- Enhance educational equity for underrepresented students;
- Strengthen institutional educational capacities;
- Prepare students for careers related to FANH; and
- Maximize the development and use of resources to improve FANH education programs.
Eligibility Criteria
For the purpose of the ANNH Grants Program, an eligible institution means an individual public or private, nonprofit Alaska Native-Serving and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions of higher education that meet the definitions of Alaska-Serving Institutions or Native Hawaiian-Serving Institution established in Title III, Part A of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (20 U.S.C. 1059d).
For more information, visit Grants.gov.