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Demos/Grant
Projects
The Role of the
WIC Program in Improving
Peri-conceptional Nutrition: A Small
Grants Program:
This grant opportunity focused on
the roles that the WIC program is
playing and can play in improving
nutrition in pre-conceptional and
peri-conceptional periods.
Assessment of the
Contributions of an Interview to SNAP
Eligibility and Benefit Determination
The purpose of this grant was to
assess the impact of waiving the SNAP
eligibility interview at certification
and recertification on payment accuracy,
program access, administrative costs and
procedures, and on staff and client
satisfaction.
Childhood
Hunger Grants: In May
2011 the University of Kentucky Center
for Poverty Research, with funding from
the Food and Nutrition Service in the
U.S. Department of Agriculture,
competitively awarded a first round of
grants in the amount of $2.45 million to
qualified individuals and institutions
to provide rigorous research that
expands our understanding of hunger
among children in the United States and
the attendant policy implications.
Healthy
Incentives Pilots:
Authorized by the Food, Conservation and
Energy Act of 2008, the Healthy
Incentives Pilot (HIP) will test and
rigorously evaluate the impact of
financial incentives at the
point-of-sale for the purchase of fruits
and vegetables on the diet quality of
participants in the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Summer
Food for Children Demonstrations:
The Summer Food for Children
Demonstrations are a series of projects,
authorized by Congress under the 2010
Agriculture Appropriations Act, to
develop and test methods of providing
access to food for low-income children
in urban and rural areas during the
summer months when schools are not in
regular session.
WIC
Special Project Grants:
FNS awards WIC Special Project Grants to
be used for "special State projects
of regional or national significance to
improve the services of the
program." In order to meet the
statutory objectives, Special Projects
need to address issues of critical and
timely importance to the WIC program.
Last modified:
02/24/2013
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