2020 Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program
Notice of Funding Opportunity:
Inviting Applications for the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program SUMMARY:
The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announces that it is inviting proposals for the 2020 Foreign Market Development Cooperator (Cooperator) program.
The Cooperator program is administered by personnel of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) on behalf of CCC.
The intended effect of this notice is to solicit applications from eligible applicants for fiscal year 2020 and to set out criteria for the awarding of funds under the program.
DATES:
All applications must be received by 5 p.m.
Eastern Daylight Time, on June 28, 201 9. Applications received after this date willnot be considered.
FAS anticipates that the initial funding selections will be made by the end of October 2019, with the initial award dates estimated to be by the end of December 201 9. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Applicants needing assistance should contact the Program OperationsDivision, Office of Trade Programs, Foreign Agricultural Service by courier:
Room 6512, 1400 IndependenceAve, SW, Washington, DC 20250, or by phone:(202) 720–4327, or by fax:
(202) 720–9361,or by e–mail:
uesadmin@fas.usda.gov.
Information, including a copy of the program regulations, is also available on the FAS website at the following URL address:
http://www.fas.usda.gov/programs/foreign–market–development–program–fmd.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A.
Funding OpportunityDescription Announcement Type:
New.
AwardInstrument:
Grant.
Catalog of Federal DomesticAssistance (CFDA) Number:
1 0. 60 0. Authorizing Authority:
The Cooperator program is authorized by Section 203(c) of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C.
5623(c)), as amended.
Cooperator program regulations appear at 7 CFR Part 148 4. Appropriation Authority:
Funding for the Cooperator program isprovided under 7 U.S.C.
5623(f).
Purpose:
The Cooperator program is designed to maintainand develop foreign markets for United States agricultural commodities and products through cost–share assistance.
Financial assistance under the Cooperator program will be made available on a competitive basis and applications will be reviewed against the evaluation criteria contained herein and in the Cooperator program regulations.
All U. S. agricultural commodities, except tobacco, are eligible for consideration.
Inviting Applications for the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program SUMMARY:
The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announces that it is inviting proposals for the 2020 Foreign Market Development Cooperator (Cooperator) program.
The Cooperator program is administered by personnel of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) on behalf of CCC.
The intended effect of this notice is to solicit applications from eligible applicants for fiscal year 2020 and to set out criteria for the awarding of funds under the program.
DATES:
All applications must be received by 5 p.m.
Eastern Daylight Time, on June 28, 201 9. Applications received after this date willnot be considered.
FAS anticipates that the initial funding selections will be made by the end of October 2019, with the initial award dates estimated to be by the end of December 201 9. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Applicants needing assistance should contact the Program OperationsDivision, Office of Trade Programs, Foreign Agricultural Service by courier:
Room 6512, 1400 IndependenceAve, SW, Washington, DC 20250, or by phone:(202) 720–4327, or by fax:
(202) 720–9361,or by e–mail:
uesadmin@fas.usda.gov.
Information, including a copy of the program regulations, is also available on the FAS website at the following URL address:
http://www.fas.usda.gov/programs/foreign–market–development–program–fmd.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A.
Funding OpportunityDescription Announcement Type:
New.
AwardInstrument:
Grant.
Catalog of Federal DomesticAssistance (CFDA) Number:
1 0. 60 0. Authorizing Authority:
The Cooperator program is authorized by Section 203(c) of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C.
5623(c)), as amended.
Cooperator program regulations appear at 7 CFR Part 148 4. Appropriation Authority:
Funding for the Cooperator program isprovided under 7 U.S.C.
5623(f).
Purpose:
The Cooperator program is designed to maintainand develop foreign markets for United States agricultural commodities and products through cost–share assistance.
Financial assistance under the Cooperator program will be made available on a competitive basis and applications will be reviewed against the evaluation criteria contained herein and in the Cooperator program regulations.
All U. S. agricultural commodities, except tobacco, are eligible for consideration.
Relevant Nonprofit Program Categories
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
Federal Register FMD Notice of Funding Opportunity
Additional Information of Eligibility:
The Africa Regional Democracy Fund -Democracy, Human Rights and Governance Program- is limited to Cameroonian local registered CBOs, associations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with at least 2 years of experience working in the areas of Democracy, Governance and Human Rights.
Organizations and entities with a prior history of poor performance of U. S. government grants are ineligible to apply for this funding.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/05/28/2019-11023/notice-of-funding-opportunity-inviting-applications-for-the-foreign-market-development-cooperator
Contact:
Agency Email Description:
FMD and MAP Branch, Office of Trade Programs
Agency Email:
Date Posted:
2019-05-28
Application Due Date:
Archive Date:
2019-07-28
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