2024 National School Lunch Program (NSLP) Equipment Assistance Grant (EAG)

Funding Description

These funds allow school food authorities (SFA) to purchase food service equipment to serve healthier meals that meet the meal pattern requirements, replace outdated or worn equipment, improve procurement of goods, improve food safety, improve the lunchroom to be more appealing to the students, help support the maintenance of an existing kitchen or the establishment of a new school kitchen or School Nutrition Program. It gives priority to those SFAs that have not received other state funding for equipment purchases and sites that have not received an Equipment Assistance Grant in the last five years.

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 2020, 2021, 2022, or 2023 NSLP Equipment Grants.
Other Eligibility Considerations	The California Department of Education (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 2020. 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	2024 Consolidated Appropriations Act
Source / Type	Federal / Grant
State Fiscal Year	2024-25
SACS Resource / Revenue Codes	5314 / 8290
Total Available	$1,048,372
Recipient Amount	$100,000 per SFA
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	August 26, 2024
Due Date	October 10, 2024
Expected Notification Date	February 1, 2025

Additional Information

Application	Request for Applications [http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/r9/snpequip24rfa.asp]
Background	Unavailable
Fiscal	Unavailable
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, 800-952-5609