FDA’s Education and Outreach Program Targeting School-Aged Children (U48)

Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-FD-15-011 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: EducationCFDA Number: 93.103Eligible Applicants Public and State controlled institutions of higher educationAgency Name: HHS-FDAClosing Date: Jul 02, 2015Award Ceiling: $452,700Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: May 29, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) is announcing its intent to accept and consider a single source application for the award of a cooperative agreement to Graduate School USA in fiscal year 2015 to support educational outreach programs targeting school-aged children which promotes FDA's mission. As part of its mission to promote and protect public health, the educational program's mission is to perform outreach to school-children using FDA approved food safety and nutrition messages. This proposed cooperative agreement requires the supporting organization to provide teachers for one school year to extend CFSAN's outreach into schools. Specific objectives of this support are to: 1. Provide thirty-seven (37) teachers from diverse United States (U.S.) schools a week-long course in food science in the Washington, DC metropolitan area; 2. Distribute approved food science curricula and other materials for the train-the-teacher session and exhibit at the national N...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Education Source Type: funding