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B -- GRANTS FOR INTERACTIVE NUTRITION EDUCATION AND PROMOTION STRATEGIES SOL FCS 95-037SUZ DUE 052495 POC Suzanne A. Pastura, 703/305-2250/Contract Specialist, Elaine S. Lynn, 703/305-2250/Contracting Officer. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Consumer Service (FCS), is sponsoring a competition for grants to demonstrate and evaluate interactive nutrition education and promotion strategies for Food Stamp Program participants and other low-income people. Nutrition education and promotion is one of the vehicles used to assist food stamp participants in achieving a healthy diet. Traditional nutrition education strategies tend to be relatively passive; that is, the recipient of the nutrition message is not actively involved in the choice of content or delivery method of that message. The proposed project will test approaches which allow people to actively participate in learning. It will evaluate whether these strategies are feasible for food assistance program participants, whether they meet the users' needs and if the users feel the strategies are effective. A total of $500,000 will be used to fund three to six grants selected for award. No grant can exceed $200,000. FCS expects most grants to fall between $50,000 and $100,000, unless a proposal(s) is particularly compelling. The grants are intended to assist research that can be completed in approximately two years from the point of award. If you believe you have the requisite knowledge to perform the above duties, please send a written request for the RFP to the address in item 7. Four (4) self-addressed mailing labels must be included with your request. Telephone inquiries and requests will not be honored. (0144)

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