ATTENTION!! Grant Opportunity - SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY PROPOSALS INVITED

Here is information about SARE Grant now available. The Sustainable Community Innovation Grant is available. Here is the link with the CFP. If you have other questions, need advice or are looking for partners, please let me know and I will do what I can to facilitate you. Thank you -Sean
http://www.southernsare.uga.edu/callpage.htm

Proposals are invited for the 2010 Southern Region Sustainable
Community Innovation (SCI) Grants to fund projects that link sustainable
agriculture to rural community development. The grants have a funding
maximum of $10,000 for up to two years of project activities. Proposals
will be accepted until October1, 2010 with awards announced mid-to-late
December.

SCI grants link farms with the non-farm population in a community for
the purpose of economic development. For example, in Mississippi a
project is partnering local farmers with low-wealth urban communities in
order to provide fresh produce and increased nutrition knowledge among
city residents while increasing profits for farmers. In five distressed
Kentucky counties, leadership development activities train farmers,
business owners and youth in diversified sustainable agriculture and
agritourism. A project featuring heritage food cooking classes and
similar events will re-kindle interest in local foodways and promote new
businesses in the North Carolina mountains.

Any individuals, non-profit organizations, for-profit organizations,
governmental organizations and/or educational organizations may apply
for a Sustainable Community Innovation Grant. Applicants must be from
the Southern Region, which consists of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Puerto Rico and the US
Virgin Islands.

Proposals must be submitted through an online template. The call for
proposals can be obtained at http://www.southernsare.uga.edu/callpage.htm

SCI grants are a partnership of the Southern Region Sustainable
Agriculture Research and Education Program and the Southern Rural
Development Center.