Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program WebNEERS | USDA NIFA SLBCD 006184

Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA NIFA SLBCD 006184

The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) WebNEERS grant opportunity is a discretionary, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) cooperative agreement focused on supporting and modernizing EFNEP's primary online data and reporting platform, known as the Web-based Nutrition Education Evaluation and Reporting System (WebNEERS). At its core, the opportunity is aimed at ensuring that WebNEERS remains a secure, reliable, and user-friendly system for the many EFNEP users who depend on it to capture program delivery information, document outcomes, and produce required reports tied to nutrition education efforts.

The stated purpose has three main parts. First, the award is intended to fund ongoing maintenance that protects the system's security while also preserving and improving ease of use. In practical terms, that typically means keeping the platform stable and safe for users, staying current with security needs, and ensuring the system continues to function smoothly for data entry, storage, and reporting. Second, the grant emphasizes improving functionality, which points to upgrades that make WebNEERS more effective for day-to-day operations, such as streamlining workflows, reducing user burden, improving performance, and addressing limitations that have emerged as user needs evolve. Third, the opportunity supports further development of WebNEERS so it aligns with advances in EFNEP program direction. That language signals that EFNEP expectations, evaluation approaches, or reporting requirements may change over time, and the system needs the flexibility and continued development capacity to adapt accordingly.

Administratively, the opportunity is identified as "USDA NIFA SLBCD 006184" and is listed under CFDA 10.500 in the agriculture funding activity category. The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, which generally indicates substantial involvement by the federal agency during the project period, often through collaboration, technical direction, or shared responsibility for key decisions compared with a standard grant. The eligible applicant category is listed as "Others," with specific eligibility details referenced in the solicitation (Part III, A), meaning applicants would need to consult that section to confirm they meet the program's requirements. The opportunity was created on January 5, 2017, and had an original closing date of February 28, 2017. Award ceiling and expected number of awards were not specified in the provided source fields, suggesting that those details were either not set in the summary record or were only available in the full announcement text.

Overall, this opportunity is less about launching a new nutrition education intervention and more about maintaining and advancing the core technical infrastructure EFNEP uses nationally to evaluate and report its work. The focus on security, usability, and evolving functionality underscores that WebNEERS is treated as an essential operational system, and the cooperative agreement is designed to keep it current, dependable, and aligned with the program's future reporting and evaluation needs.

• The National Institute of Food and Agriculture in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program WebNEERS" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.500.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2017-01-05.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-02-28. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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