OpportunityTitle: FY 2022 McGovern-Dole Standing Supplemental NOFO
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Current McGovern-Dole award recipients with active cooperative agreements and an invitation from FAS/IFAD. Pursuant to 2 CFR Part 415.1(d)(3), this NOFO supports continuing work already started under the base McGovern-Dole agreement. Organizations without an active McGovern-Dole agreement are ineligible. Allapplicants must have an active registration in the SAM database at SAM.gov; pending or expired registrants are not eligible. This requirement must be met before the supplement amendment will be signed and will not be waived. Please contact MGDAmendments@usda.gov if you have questions about this requirement.
Description: Program Overview:The McGovern-Dole program feeds school children and improves literacy (especially for girls) in low-income, food-deficit countries around the world. The program provides for the donation of U.S. agricultural commodities, as well as financial and technical assistance, to support school feeding, literacy, maternal and child health and nutrition projects worldwide pursuant to an agreement with USDA-FAS. The program requires the inclusion of graduation as stipulated in the legislation.Program Objectives:The McGovern-Dole program key objectives are to carry out: &#8226; Preschool and primary school food for education programs in foreign countries to improve food security, reduce the incidence of hunger, and improve literacy and primary education, particularly with respect to girls; and &#8226; Maternal, infant, and child nutrition programs for pregnant women, nursing mothers, infants, and children who are five years of age or younger.Program Priorities:The program funding priorities of this NOFO are to provide additional freight, commodity, and/or administrative funds to active McGovern-Dole cooperative agreements. Generally, additional funding will be prioritized to address commodity, freight, or FAS administrative fund shortfalls that may occur for various reasons, including due to natural disasters, complications related to COVID-19, higher than anticipated commodity and/or freight rates, political instability delaying key project dates, pipeline breaks in school feeding, or commodity loss.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: USDA Email
GrantorContactText: Lindsay Carter &lt;br/&gt;Director, McGovern-Dole Branch &lt;br/&gt;202-720-1008