Opportunity Information: Apply for SCRC CANS 01 25
The Advancing Food and Childcare Systems in Rural Georgia: Childcare Access and Nutrition Systems (CANS) Grant Program is a discretionary grant opportunity offered by the Southeast Crescent Regional Commission (SCRC) through a FY 2025 Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA). The program is run in partnership with USDA Rural Development (USDA RD), specifically through the Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBCS), using funding provided to SCRC under a cooperative agreement. The overall purpose is to strengthen both childcare access and local food and nutrition systems as coordinated pieces of rural community development, with an emphasis on practical, place-based projects that can improve economic outcomes and day-to-day quality of life.
Geographically, the funding is targeted to two distressed-identified rural counties in Georgia: Dougherty County and Upson County. While SCRC as a regional commission covers a much larger multi-state footprint (generally spanning from eastern Virginia down through the Carolinas, across parts of Georgia and lower Alabama, and toward the Mississippi Delta), this specific CANS funding round is focused on those two Georgia counties. The NOFA frames the need in terms of persistent rural economic distress and changing regional demographics, and it connects proposed investments to broader goals like closing development gaps, supporting healthier communities, and ensuring rural residents in highly distressed areas have equitable access to federally supported resources and the benefits of USDA RD-funded projects.
The program strategy is built around the idea that childcare systems and food systems are both core infrastructure for rural prosperity. On the childcare side, the NOFA highlights workforce participation: when families can reliably find affordable, accessible childcare, more people can work, train, and stay employed. On the food and nutrition side, the program emphasizes increasing local food production and strengthening sustainable farming and food business activity, which can reduce food insecurity while also creating jobs and supporting better health outcomes. The NOFA also stresses the importance of employer and community partnerships, signaling that competitive projects will likely show shared local ownership, coordination with businesses and community groups, and a plan that fits local needs rather than a one-size-fits-all model. Another recurring theme is scalability and broader impact, meaning projects should not only solve a single, narrow problem, but also create foundations that can be expanded, replicated, or sustained over time to build long-term resilience.
Key dates are clearly laid out and move quickly. The full application portal opens on November 1, 2024. A Letter of Interest is required and is due November 8, 2024. Full applications are due November 22, 2024. SCRC anticipates notifying awardees by December 6, 2024, and the anticipated project start date is January 6, 2025. Application access and additional instructions are provided through scrc.gov, which is the central source for the portal and the detailed requirements that applicants must follow to be considered complete and eligible.
In terms of who can apply, the eligible applicant types are relatively broad but still focused on public-serving and community-based organizations. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations recognized under IRS sections 501(c) and 501(a); local government entities in Dougherty and Upson counties (including village, town, city, and county governments); educational institutions including institutions of higher education and K-12 public institutions; other political subdivisions such as regional planning commissions and local economic or community development entities (including consortium applications); and federally recognized Native American tribal governments. The funding instrument is a grant, the opportunity is listed under CFDA (now commonly referred to as Assistance Listing) number 90.705, and the agency administering the opportunity is SCRC.
The NOFA indicates an award ceiling of up to $1,000,000 per award and anticipates making about 15 awards. Taken together, that suggests SCRC is looking for a portfolio of projects that are large enough to produce real, measurable improvements in childcare capacity and/or food and nutrition systems, but diverse enough to address different local barriers and opportunities across the target counties. Applicants interested in competing should be prepared to show how their project tangibly expands childcare access and/or strengthens local food production and nutrition systems, how it leverages partnerships (especially with employers and community stakeholders), and how the benefits will extend beyond a single site or short-term intervention.Apply for SCRC CANS 01 25
- The Southeast Crescent Regional Commission in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Advancing Food and Childcare Systems in Rural Georgia: Childcare Access and Nutrition Systems (CANS) Grant Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 90.705.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-11-01.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-11-22. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 15 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized).
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