ERS/USDA Briefing Room - Food and Nutrition Assistance Programs: Funding Opportunities

FANRP's competitive grants and cooperative agreements program made awards in fiscal 2004 to fund research on strengthening economic incentives in food assistance programs; food assistance as a safety net; and obesity, diet quality, and health outcomes. The program is publicly announced and competitively awarded through the use of peer review panels.
(Click on the title for the project's description)

Investigator	City/State	Title	Award amount*
Strengthening Economic Incentives in Food Assistance Programs
Caroline Ratcliffe The Urban Institute	Washington, DC	How Are State Food Stamp and TANF Policy Choices Affecting Food Stamp Participation	$100,000
Thomas MaCurdy The SPHERE Institute	Burlingame, CA	Integrating Food Stamp Program Rules and Processes With Other Public Assistance Programs	$100,000
Food Assistance as a Safety Net
Robert Moffitt Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, MD	The Role of Food Stamps in the Post-Reform Safety Net: The Three-City Study	$200,000
Mary Farrell Lewin Group	Falls Church, VA	Income Volatility and Its Effect on Food Stamp Participation of the Working Poor	$100,000
Obesity, Diet Quality, and Health
Joel Gittelsohn Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, MD	A Feasibility Study of Nutrition Education Intervention in Food Stores Serving the Low Income	$100,000
David Just Cornell University	Ithaca, NY	An Exploration of Potential Uses of Behavioral Economics Concepts for Improving the Diets of Food Assistance Program Participants	$100,000
Matthew Davis University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, MI	Future Costs of Childhood Obesity: Estimates and Implications	$150,000
Charles Baum Middle Tennessee State University	Murfreesboro, TN	An Examination of the Effects of Food Stamps on Obesity	$120,000
Robert Whitaker Mathematica Policy Research Inc.	Princeton, NJ	Food Security, Obesity and Mental Health in Mothers and Preschool Children	$150,000