The Research Program on Childhood Hunger was established at the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR) in September 2010 with funding from the Food and Nutrition Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The co-directors of this initiative are Dr. Craig Gundersen, Associate Professor of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois, and Dr. James Ziliak, Gatton Chair in Microeconomics at the University of Kentucky and Director of UKCPR.
In this program we seek to develop a clearer and more comprehensive understanding of why children experience very low food security in the United States. To this end UKCPR will competitively award grants to qualified individuals and institutions to provide rigorous research that expands our understanding of hunger among children in the United States and the attendant policy implications. Total anticipated funding under this mechanism is $2.45 million across four large grants at $500,000 each and six small grants at $75,000 each.
Letters of intent are due January 25, 2011, and full proposals are due March 10, 2011. The full RFP is available at: http://www.ukcpr.org/Childhood_Hunger_RFP.pdf. Please direct administrative questions to Ms. Mary Boulton at ukcpr@uky.edu.
-Thanks to the National Poverty Center at the Univ. of Mich. for the heads up.
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