2024-2025 Application for Non-Profit Community Organizations that Benefit Family Farms
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Welcome to NC AgVentures Farm Grant Application Portal
The overall goal of this grant is to increase farm profits.
NC AgVentures is an NC State Extension program that provides cost-share grants to North Carolina family farm businesses, and local non-profit community organizations that work with family farms.
Overview
- Maximum award is $8000
- The grant funds are taxable income
- Grant recipients must provide at least 15% cost of the total project
- Grant applicants must work with an Extension agent on their project proposal
- If you are not working Cooperative Extension, you will find an office in each county. Call and set a time to talk with a livestock or horticulture Agent about your grant project idea.
- Deadline to apply is December 13th, at 6PM
- Submissions cap at 25 applications.
Who is Eligible?
Non-profit community organizations such as livestock associations, farmers markets and Cooperative Extension that are working directly with family farms in the following counties are eligible to apply:
Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Forsyth,, Gaston, Granville, Greene, Guilford, Halifax, Harnett, Iredell, Johnston, Lincoln, Martin, Mecklenburg, Nash, Northampton, Orange, Person, Pitt, Randolph, Rockingham, Rowan, Sampson, Stanly, Stokes, Surry, Union, Vance, Wake, Wayne, Wilson, Wilkes, Warren, Yadkin.
Who is not eligible?
- Farms that received a grant in the previous year are asked to wait a year before submitting another application.
- Farms that have received 3 or more grants from NC AgVentures are no longer eligible to apply.
- NC State Extension Agents, their spouses or partners are not eligible to apply for personal grants. Agents can write a Community Grant for the Extension office.
- NC State Employees are not eligible to apply for personal grants.
- For profit organizations are not eligible
Criteria for evaluating the applications
- Does the project proposal show a good potential for success?
- Does the grant proposal incorporate Extension Best Practices?
- Will your project increase income for family farms relative to project cost?
- Will the project increase or maintain employment opportunities?
- Has the proposal been adequately researched and is well detailed?
- Does the project plan include strategies to protect soil, water, crops and food products from contamination?
- Is the budget realistic?
- Does the applicant have the skills to complete the project?
- Does the project present a new direction or opportunity in the region?
- Will the project become self-supporting?
- Will multiple farmers in your region benefit from the project?
- Budget total for the project must be at least 15% higher than the requested award amount.
To Apply.
We suggest using Chrome or Fox browser
You will be asked to create a login and password to set up your own account. Choose a unique password and save a copy of the login and password as you will need them to access your application.
If you have set-up an account in a previous year you may login with the same login and password
***On the first page of the application in the upper right corner you will see the words Invite Collaborators. Click on the message, and a new window will open. Put in the email address of any collaborators. The collaborator will receive a link to view the application.
Grant Awards are competitive
The awards are based on a competitive process. (We had 175 applications submitted last year, and we had funds to award 65 grants, nine of those were Community grants.) The review committee will have a few weeks in January to review the applications. The awards are announced in late February. All applicants will receive a letter to let them know if they did or did not receive and award.
- If you have technical issues with the application form contact submittersupport@submittable.com