Deadline: 29-Mar-23
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) requests applications for the Veterinary Services Grant Program (VSGP) for fiscal years 2023 to develop, implement and sustain food and large animal veterinary services and relieve veterinary shortage situations in the United States and U.S. Insular Areas.
The goals of the VSGP are to fund accredited schools and organizations in education, extension, and training (EET) for food animal veterinary medicine, and for rural practice enhancement (RPE) for veterinary clinics that provide services in veterinary shortage situations.
Types of Grants
- Education, extension, and training (EET) grants are initiatives that will enable veterinarians, veterinary students, veterinary technicians, and veterinary technician students to gain specialized skills through formal coursework, clinical training, and practice enhancement to mitigate veterinary service shortages more effectively in the United States and Insular Areas.
- Rural practice enhancement (RPE) grants ultimately bolster the capacity of private clinics that provide food/large animal veterinary services in designated veterinarian shortage situations.
Funding Information
- Education, extension, and training (EET) grants
- Grant Duration: 36 Months
- Anticipated # of Awards: Approximately 9
- Maximum Award Amount: $250,000
- Rural practice enhancement (RPE) grants
- Grant Duration: 36 Months (require a three-year service commitment)
- Anticipated # of Awards: Approximately 9
- Maximum Award Amount: $125,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants for EET
- State, national, allied, regional, or professional food animal veterinary organization recognized by the American Veterinary Medical Association,
- College or school of veterinary medicine accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association,
- University research foundation or veterinary medical foundation,
- Department of veterinary science or department of comparative medicine accredited by the U.S. Department of Education,
- State agricultural experiment station or Research Farm (1890 institutions),
- State, local, or tribal government agency.
- Eligible Applicants for RPE
- For-profit or non-profit entity located in the United States, such as a veterinary clinic or hospital, that provides mixed/large animal veterinary services in a rural area, as defined in section 343(a) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1991(a)), within a current VMLRP shortage area. FY2023 shortage situation areas are found here.
- Clinic or hospital that employs a current VMLRP awardee from any qualifying year (i.e., those with a current service obligation at the time of this application) and applies with reference to the single shortage area to which they are obligated to serve;
- RPE awards are made to clinics, not individuals. Therefore, only a clinic, not an individual practitioner, may apply for and be awarded an RPE grant.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.