Grant Funding

GRANT FUNDING

March 2020 -NIFA USDA Farm Bill Extension Funding $74,359 Womack, Principal Investigator April 2020 Moore, Administrative Manager Grant funded as an Asset Building Tool

April 2020 - NIFA USDA New Funding $150,000 Womack, Principal Investigator 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)