Deadline: 5-Apr-22
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture has announced a funding call for the Veterinary Services Grant Program (VSGP) to develop, implement, and sustain veterinary services and relieve veterinarian shortage situations in the U.S., which includes insular areas.
The Veterinary Services Grant Program (VSGP) is designed to support education and extension activities and practice enhancement initiatives that will enable veterinarians, veterinary students, veterinary technicians, and veterinary technician students to gain specialized skills and provide practices with additional resources (eg, equipment, personnel) needed to more effectively mitigate veterinary service shortages in the US Ultimately, this program will bolster the capacity of private practitioners to provide food animal veterinary services in designated rural veterinary shortage situations.
Grants will be made available on a competitive basis to:
- Establish or expand accredited veterinary education programs, veterinary residency and fellowship programs, or veterinary internship and externship programs carried out in coordination with accredited colleges of veterinary medicine.
- Provide continuing education and extension, including veterinary telemedicine and other distance-based education, for veterinarians, veterinary technicians, and other health professionals needed to strengthen veterinary programs and enhance food safety and public health.
- Cover travel and living expenses of veterinary students, veterinary interns, externs, fellows, and residents, and veterinary technicians.
- To expose students in grades 11 and 12 to education and career opportunities in food animal medicine.
Types of Projects
To complement the work being done under the VMLRP, and to address this veterinary shortage problem, the VSGP is designed to support two 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
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $3,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $250,000
- Award Floor: $75,000
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants for the VSGP must meet all the requirements discussed in this RFA. Failure to meet the eligibility criteria by the application deadline may result in exclusion from consideration or, preclude NIFA from making an award.
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Eligible Applicants for EET:
- a State, national, allied, regional, or professional food animal veterinary organizations recognized by the American Veterinary Medical Association;
- a college or school of veterinary medicine accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association;
- a university research foundation or veterinary medical foundation;
- a department of veterinary science or department of comparative medicine accredited by the Department of Education;
- a State agricultural experiment station; gold Research Farm (1890 institutions)
- a State, local, or tribal government agency.
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Eligible Applicants for RPE:
- A for-profit or nonprofit entity located in the United States, such as a clinic or hospital, that provides mixed/large animal veterinary services in a rural area.
- Clinics or hospitals that employ a current VMLRP awardee from any qualifying year (ie, 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;
- A single shortage area designation MUST be included in the proposal title and narrative and in the appropriate field on the form.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338253