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Title 3
Risk Management Education Grants Program
The
Western Center for Risk Management Education (Western Center) has
established a competitive grants program to train agricultural producers
and their families to use improved risk management practices. The
Western Center will award $313,000 for risk management education
projects to be conducted before May 30, 2003 in the 13 Western States.
The Western Region Request for Proposal (RFP) is available on the
Web at http://westrme.wsu.edu/funding.
Eligible applicants include any public or private sector organization
with the ability to deliver risk management education to agricultural
producers and their families and who also have the financial capacity
to receive grant funds and provide appropriate accounting for the
use of awarded dollars.
- The
Western Center's Risk Management Education grant awards process
contains the following:
a focus on results for producers and their families and documenting
these results
- partnerships
to assure ongoing program successes
- a
broad range of risk management tools and approaches including
the inclusion of family stability issues in risk management education
Because
this process is so different than many grants programs, it is important
that applicants familiarize themselves with application materials
supplied by the Western Center before submitting a pre-proposal.
Key components of the application process are:
- A
short pre-proposal (2 pages maximum) must be submitted by February
15, 2002 on the form supplied by the Western Center for Risk Management
Education, http://westrme.wsu.edu/funding.
- Applicants
whose pre-proposals are chosen for further consideration will
be notified by the Center by March 5, 2002 and asked to submit
a fully-developed 6 page proposal by March 29, 2002. Awards will
be announced before May 17, 2002.
- Training
for prospective applicants on the results-oriented process will
be offered via a satellite broadcast and web-streaming on January
22, 2002 at 1:30 PM PST. Additional details to be published on
the Western Center's Web page http://westrme.wsu.edu/funding.
Phone consultations are available with Center staff.
- All
application materials will be available on the Internet on the
Center's Web page, http://westrme.wsu.edu/funding.
It is strongly suggested that proposals be submitted electronically
per instructions in the application materials. Hard copies of
application materials can be requested from the Center.
Awards
will be made by a review panel of Advisory Council members from
across the western region. These individuals represent a variety
of expertise: educators, producers and family members, and private
and public sector experts knowledgeable about risk management tools.
This Council has developed the following principles to guide the
allocation of funds:
- Proposals
will strongly focus on results for customers who are agricultural
producers or their family members.
- Proposals
will clearly identify and document their customer market and the
risk management needs of the individuals who make up that market.
- Projects
will emphasize a commitment to changing the risk management behavior
of the customers they seek to serve.
- The
process will favor proposals that take an innovative approach
to risk management education. These may be from any organization
that has legal standing.
- The
end result should be a portfolio of projects that includes:
- Different
types of producers/customers to be served
- A
variety of types of organizations receiving support
- An
array of public-private partnerships to strengthen project results
and continuity
- Approaches
that acknowledge the importance of the family to farm/ranch businesses
For
additional information contact:
Jon Newkirk or Lisa Spence
Western Center for Risk Management Education
Washington State University Cooperative Extension
222 N Havana, Spokane, WA 99202
509-477-2168 WestRME@wsu.edu
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