NIFA offers several technical assistance events to help prospective applicants understand NIFA funding opportunities. Supporting material from these events — which also provide guidance on grant development and grant management — is available here.
The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture offers many funding opportunities to support research, education and Extension/outreach in most fields of food and agricultural sciences.
These funding opportunities include grants, cooperative agreements, scholarships and fellowships in plant and animal production and processing; food science and nutrition; climate and environmental impacts of agriculture; rural and community development; marketing and trade; and many other topics of national importance.
The technical assistance resources collected on this page will help you at each stage of the grant lifecycle, whether you’re applying to a NIFA funding opportunity or submitting technical and financial data or reporting significant accomplishments and impacts in REEport.
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Upcoming Technical Assistance Webinars and Events
Resources from NIFA
Competitive Grant Application Process Overview
This tool is designed to help prospective NIFA grantees develop complete and accurate application packages.
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NIFA hosted a five-day workshop designed to help you learn about NIFA grants and resources for grants development and management.
NIFA hosted a virtual workshop to provide an overview of the grants process and programs at NIFA. Recordings and presentation materials are posted here.
These quarterly virtual workshops are intended to enhance both the accessibility and effectiveness of NIFA’s programs.
Resources from the National Agricultural Library
This webinar covers publicly accessible resources and services available through the National Agricultural Library, including full-text research articles, data sources and management, and research support.
This webinar provides details on how to meet the requirement to submit final, peer-reviewed, accepted manuscripts to PubAg, the USDA public access archive system.
This webinar provides details on how to meet the requirement to report data assets in the National Ag Data Commons.
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