funding opportunity for food & nutrition programs

[Guest guest]

In the Federal Register on

April 5, 2004 the DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,

Administration for Children and Families, Community Food and Nutrition

Program announced Discretionary Grants.

Announcement Type:

Initial.

Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2004-ACF-OCS-EN-0007.

CFDA Number: 93.571.

Due Date for Applications: Due date for receipt of applications is June

4, 2004.

I. Funding

Opportunity Description

The

Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Act, as amended,

authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make funds

available under several programs to support program activities that

will result in direct benefits targeted to low-income people. This

program announcement covers the grant authority found at Section 681 of

the Community Services Block Grant Act, (The Act) (Pub. L. 97-35) as

amended by the Community Opportunities, Accountability, and Training

and Educational Services Act of 1998 (Pub. L. 105-285), Community Food

and Nutrition Program. The Act authorizes the Secretary to award grants

on a competitive basis to eligible entities for community-based, local

and statewide and national programs including programs benefiting

Indians (as defined in section 677(e) of the CSBG Act) and migrant farm

workers.

The main objective of the CFNP is to link low-income

people to food

and nutrition programs. Grant funds are provided to: (1) Coordinate

private and public food assistance resources, wherever the grant

recipient involved determines such coordination to be inadequate, to

better serve low-income populations; (2) assist low-income communities

to identify potential sponsors of child nutrition programs and to

initiate such programs in underserved or unserved areas; and (3)

develop innovative approaches at the State and local level to meet the

nutrition needs of low-income individuals. The OCS views this program

as a capacity building program, rather than a food delivery program.

The Office of Community Services encourages eligible

applicants

with programs addressing obesity to submit applications. Eligible

applicants with programs benefiting Native Americans and migrant or

seasonal farm workers are also encouraged to submit applications.

Faith-based and community-based organizations reaching underserved

populations are also

eligible to apply.

For the full

announcement click here:

http://www.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2004_register & docid=04-7609