OpportunityTitle: Tribal Colleges Research Grants Program
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligibility Requirements  Applicants for the TCRGP must meet all the requirements discussed in this RFA. Applications may only be submitted by Tribal Colleges or Universities designated as 1994s under the Equity Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 301, as amended). Award recipients may subcontract to organizations not eligible to apply provided such organizations are necessary for the conduct of the project. Failure to meet the eligibility criteria by the application deadline may result in exclusion from consideration or, preclude NIFA from making an award. For those new to Federal financial assistance, NIFA&#8217;s Grants Overview provides highly recommended information about grants and other resources to help understand the Federal awards process.     The eligible 1994s are listed below:       1) Aaniiih Nakoda College  2) Bay Mills Community College  3) Blackfeet Community College  4) Cankdeska Cikana Community College  5) Chief Dull Knife College  6) College of Menominee Nation  7) College of the Muscogee Nation  8) Dine College  9) Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College  10) Fort Peck Community College  11) Haskell Indian Nations University  12) Ilisagvik College  13) Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development.  14) Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College  15) Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College  16) Leech Lake Tribal College  17) Little Big Horn College  18) Little Priest Tribal College  19) Navajo Technical University  20) Nebraska Indian Community College  21) Northwest Indian College  22) Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College  23) Oglala Lakota College  24) Red Lake Nation College  25) Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College  26) Salish Kootenai College  27) Sinte Gleska University  28) Sisseton Wahpeton College  29) Sitting Bull College  30) Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute  31) Stone Child College  32) Tohono O&apos;odham Community College  33) Turtle Mountain Community College  34) United Tribes Technical College  35) White Earth Tribal and Community College       Duplicate or Multiple Submissions &#8211;   For the FY 2024 program, there are no restrictions in the number of applications that an eligible institution may submit. NIFA will generally only give one 1994 Research Capacity Center award among all the 1994&#8217;s and to any one institution: (1) Up to two awards in the New Discovery Research option, (2) One award for Area of Expertise, (3) Up to two awards in Faculty/Community and (4) one award for Conference Grants. There is generally a limit of three awards total to any one eligible institution in response to this RFA (Refer to Part II, C. Project, and Grant Types).
Description: This program was designed to assist 1994 Land-Grant Institutions (Tribal Colleges) in building institutional research capacity through applied projects that address student educational needs and meet community, reservation or regional challenges. Awards are to be made on the basis of a competitive review process. Collaboration with 1862 or 1890 Land-Grant Institutions, the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS), a Non-Land-Grant College of Agriculture (NLGCA), or at least one forestry school funded under the McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program is a requirement. Eligible institutions may propose projects in any discipline of the food, agricultural or natural resource sciences.The technical assistance webinar related to this FY 2024 funding opportunity will be scheduled soon. Please visit again for more information.
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