Grant FUNDING
Date
Grant Name
Funding Type
Amount.
Grant Application Members
March 2020
NIFA USDA Farm Bill
Extension Funding April 2020
$74,359
Womack, Principal Investigator Moore, Administrative Manager
New Funding
$150,000
Womack, Principal Investigator
Grant funded as an Asset Building Tool April 2020
NIFA USDA
Spring 2020 (April)
Moore, Administrative Manager
Focus research on Rural Economic Development in Georgia August 2020
RWJ Foundation
Fiscal Sponsor
$10,000
Community collaborative with Kentucky State University and Black Belt Community Foundation (BBCF) as fiscal sponsor
Technical Reports by RSI The Rural Studies Institute led two regionally-funded research projects. SEAP Fellow for the Roosevelt Institute | The Delta Regional Authority: A Black Belt Regional Perspective ($5,000) December 2020 | Womack, Principal Investigator Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research Brief Resilience and Food Security in Black Belt Alabama through Land Based Cooperative Economics and Communal Landholdings July 2020 (as part of the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program ($350,000 grant for three years; 2017-2020 BBCF fiscal sponsor) Dr. Veronica Womack served as co-principal investigator.
Collaborative Efforts for 2020 The Rural Studies Institute focused on building relationships and collaborative work during its first year. Facilitating collaborations with Fort Valley State University (goal: MOU) Initial conversations for partnership with Georgia State University, ABAC, Florida A&M University (goal: researchers, student collaborations, and grant opportunities) Black Belt Community Foundation of Alabama (goal: research funding) Milledgeville-Baldwin Chamber of Commerce (strategic partner) RSI FIRST-YEAR REPORT 8 GEORGIA COLLEGE
