2020 National School Lunch Program (NSLP) Equipment Assistance Grant (EAG)

Funding Description

This grant allows school food authorities (SFA) to purchase equipment needed to serve healthier meals, meet the nutritional standards with an emphasis on more fresh fruit and vegetables, improve food safety, replacing outdated and worn equipment and expand access. It gives priority to those SFAs that have not received an equipment grant since 2016.

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants	Local educational agencies
Required Eligibility Criteria	Public school districts, county offices of education, directly funded charter schools, private schools, and residential child care institutions that participate in the NSLP or School Breakfast Program can apply for this grant. The Nutrition Services Division (NSD) will give priority to those sites that did not receive funds from the 2016, 2017, 2018, or 2019 NSLP equipment grants. The NSD may consider SFAs with excess net cash resources (NCR) to be ineligible to receive an equipment grant. In accordance with Title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 210.14(b), an SFA shall limit its NCR to an amount that does not exceed three-month average expenditures for its food service account.
Other Eligibility Considerations	The CDE will award competitive grants of up to $100,000 per SFA. Each SFA may apply for no more than five sites. The NSD will give priority to those SFAs that have not received an EAG since 2016. The NSD will also give priority to those SFAs that can explicitly document how the equipment purchased will reflect the intent of the grant with specific emphasis on impacting nutrition quality, serving healthier meals, and meeting nutritional standards as well as how the SFA will sustain these improvements in the years to come.
Eligible Grade Level(s)	Not applicable
Eligible Age Level(s)	Not applicable

Funding

Legal Authority	2020 Agriculture Appropriations Act
Source / Type	Federal / Grant
State Fiscal Year	2020-21
SACS Resource / Revenue Codes	5314 / 8290
Total Available	$3,394,687
Recipient Amount	$100,000 per LEA
Match Requirement	No
Allocation Formula	Recipients will receive up to 90 percent of the funding at the time of award with the remaining 10 percent awarded upon approval of all invoices. The CDE will recover funds from agencies that do not submit invoices for approved budget items within the award time frame.

Important Dates

Date Application Available	January 12, 2021
Due Date	March 2, 2021
Expected Notification Date	May 1, 2021

Additional Information

Application	Request for Applications [http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/r9/snpequip20rfa.asp]
Background	Unavailable
Fiscal	Unavailable
Funding Results	Funding Results [http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/r9/snpeag20result.asp]
Other	Unavailable

Contacts

Program	Danielle Rice, 916-323-2538, drice@cde.ca.gov
Fiscal	Bryan Gee, 916-445-4815, bgee@cde.ca.gov
Division	Nutrition Services Division, 916-322-3005 (phone), 916-445-5731 (fax)