Deadline: 17 July 2018

The Administration for Community Living (ACL) is currently accepting applications for its program entitled “Innovations in Nutrition Programs and Services” to increase the evidenced based knowledge base of nutrition providers, drive improved health outcomes for program recipients by promoting higher service quality, and increase program efficiency through innovative nutrition service delivery models.

Funding will support innovative and promising practices that move the aging network towards evidenced based practices that enhance the quality, effectiveness of nutrition services programs or outcomes within the aging services network. Innovation can include service products that appeal to caregivers (such as web-based ordering systems and carryout food products), increased involvement of volunteers (such as retired chefs), consideration of eating habits and choice (such as variable meal times, salad bars, or more fresh fruits and vegetables), new service models (testing variations and hybrid strategies) and other innovations to better serve a generation of consumers whose needs and preferences are different. Innovative and promising practices may include the testing and publishing of positive outcomes in which nutrition programs provide a meaningful role in support of the health and long-term care of older individuals.

Outcomes should focus on methods to improve collaboration with local health care entities, decrease health care costs for a specific population or decrease the incidence of the need for institutionalization among older adults. Through this program, funds may be used to help develop and test additional models or to replicate models that have already been tested in other community-based settings.

Funding Information

• Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,000,000
• Award Ceiling: $250,000
• Award Floor: $250,000

Eligibility Criteria

• Special district governments
• Small businesses
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
• Others
• County governments
• Private institutions of higher education
• Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
• City or township governments
• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
• State governments
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education

How to Apply

Applications must be submitted online via given website.

Eligible Country: United States

For more information, please visit Grants.gov.