Small Business Grants from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase II

Projects dealing with agriculturally related manufacturing and alternative and renewable energy technologies are encouraged across all 2015 SBIR topic areas. USDA SBIR's flexible research areas...more

Posted On - 2014-12-30

AFRI NIFA Fellowships Grant Program

The FY 2014 AFRI NIFA Fellowship RFA focuses on developing the next generation of research, education, and extension professionals in the food and agricultural sciences who will lead agriculture into...more

Posted On - 2013-10-29

Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase II

Funds may be awarded up to $450,000 for Phase II projects. All Phase II projects must have previously completed a successful USDA Phase I project before applying for a Phase II grant. Success rates...more

Posted On - 2013-01-23

Agriculture and Food Research Initiative: Sustainable Bioenergy

This AFRI Challenge Area focuses on the priority to secure America's energy future. It supports the development of regional systems for the sustainable production of bioenergy and biobased...more

Posted On - 2012-12-26

Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI): NIFA Fellowships Grant Program

The FY 2013 AFRI NIFA Fellowship RFA focuses on developing the next generation of research, education, and extension professionals in the food and agricultural sciences who will lead agriculture into...more

Posted On - 2012-12-06

Small Business Innovation Research Program - Phase I

See the 2013 USDA SBIR request for applications (RFA) by clicking the RFA link on the table below. Funds may be awarded up to $100,000 for Phase I and up to $450,000 for Phase II. Success rates for...more

Posted On - 2012-06-14

Agriculture and Food Research Initiative: Sustainable Bioenergy

The Sustainable Bioenergy Challenge Area RFA focuses on the societal challenge to secure America's energy future. In the Sustainable Bioenergy Challenge Area RFA, specific program areas are...more

Posted On - 2011-09-21

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Homeless Plans Are Well-Intended, but Prove Costly

Childhood Lead Exposure Can Lead to Suspension from School

Federal Budget Cuts May Shake Up Low-Income Families, the Disabled and Elderly

CASA Volunteers Needed to Help Children in Court System

Ark Preschool Helps Homeless Children Who Face Challenges at School

Nonpartisan Research Center Reproachful of Privatizing Economic Development

Use of Medications to Treat ADHD in Children and Adolescents Increases

Indigenous Social Enterprise Program Harbors Support from School and Local Government

Getting Millennials To Create Vibrant, Healthy Communities

Women And Minorities In Science, Technology, Engineering And Mathematics Fields Program (WAMS)

This grant program supports research and extension projects that have robust collaborations to increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities from rural areas in science,...more

Posted On - 2011-03-10

Featured Government Grant Resources

Community Development Credit Unions

A Community Development Credit Union, more commonly known as a CDCU, is a credit financial institution which owned and controlled by its members in an effort to sustain the ability of being able to provide a wide array of financial services.

Historically Underutilized Business Zones - HUBZone Empowerment Contracting Program

The Small Business Administration has established the Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone) Empowerment Contracting Program wherein they aim to provide federal contracting assistance to eligible small business corporations which are located in underutilized business zones so as to improve their employment opportunities, investments, and their area's economic development.

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