USDA/NIFA Grant: WIC Workforce Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center

Eligible institutions include:
a. State Agricultural Experiment Station;
b. colleges and universities (including junior colleges offering associate degrees or higher, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges, 1994 Land-Grant Institutions, Hispanic-serving agricultural colleges and universities (HSACUs, see NIFA’s Hispanic Serving Agricultural Colleges and Universities page);
c. university research foundations;
d. other research institutions and organizations;
e. non-profit organizations;
f. Federal agencies;
g. Governmental agencies;
h. national laboratories;
i. private organizations or corporations;
j. individuals who are U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents; or
k. any group consisting of two or more entities identified in a) through j).

Eligible institutions do not include foreign or international organizations.

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) National Workforce Strategy is part of a joint agency initiative between the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) that is expected to cultivate comprehensive and sustained solutions for WIC workforce development. The joint agency initiative aims to strengthen the diversity and cultural competency of the WIC workforce, with the ultimate goals of increasing: 1) WIC participation through reaching those populations that are eligible, but not enrolled; and 2) WIC participants use of benefits and services, including nutrition education and breastfeeding support.

For this RFA, NIFA requests applications for a WIC Workforce Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center to provide technical assistance and evaluation oversight to implementation projects that will be funded to respond to the https://www.nifa.usda.gov/wic-national-workforce-strategy.