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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Dear CALS Faculty,</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">Please</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> see the </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">information</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> below
f</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">rom</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> Marla Franco, Assistant Vice Provost for HSI initiatives, regarding the USDA </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">Community</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> Prosperity
Summits and USDA HSI Education Grants Program. </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Best </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">regards</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">,</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">1) You are </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">invited</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> to
attend the </span></font><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">USDA Arizona Community Prosperity Virtual Summits</b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">, with</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><a href="https://arizona.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lde-grTMpE9TWvUUwl222ClTidGYC6MAj?utm_source=Unknown+List&utm_campaign=ad1350bbfe-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_23_11_36&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-ad1350bbfe-" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">UA
Yuma (Aug. 13)</a><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">and</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><a href="https://research.arizona.edu/events/9143-usda-arizona-community-prosperity-virtual-summit?utm_source=Unknown+List&utm_campaign=ad1350bbfe-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_23_11_36&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-ad1350bbfe-&utm_source=Unknown+List&utm_campaign=ad1350bbfe-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_23_11_36&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-ad1350bbfe-" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">UA
main campus (Sept. 3)</a><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">serving as hosts. Please click on the imbedded hyperlinks to view agendas
and to RSVP. The summits aim to develop and maintain partnerships focused on solving challenges facing rural and underserved communities, while connecting those communities to education, tools, and resources available through the USDA. Please consider joining
us. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">2) </span></font><b class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">USDA HSI Education
Grants Program: RFP, submission dates </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">and</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">additional</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">information</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> were </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">recently
announced: </span></font></b><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></font><a href="https://nifa.usda.gov/sites/default/files/rfa/HSI-RFA-FY-2020-2021-01032020.pdf" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">updated
RFP</a><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div>
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The program offers 3 types of grants: <o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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Regular: $275K max, 4 years, Due: January 26, 2021<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
Collaboration: $1M max, 4 years, Due: January 27, 2021<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
Conference grants: $50K max, Due: January 28, 2021<o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul>
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The purpose of the HSI Education Grants Program is to encourage innovative teaching or education proposals with potential to impact and become models for other institutions that serve underrepresented students, at the regional or national level. Projects supported
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Attract and support undergraduate and graduate students from underrepresented groups in order to prepare them for careers related to the food, agriculture, natural resources and human (FANH) sciences in the United States<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
Enhance the quality of postsecondary instruction within the above disciplines<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
Provide opportunities and access to FANH careers in the public and private sector<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
Align the efforts of HSIs and other non-profit organizations to support academic development and career attainment of underrepresented groups<o:p class=""></o:p></li></ol>
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I know of one CALS team who are working towards submitting a collaboration proposal. Multiple submissions are permitted. Please let me know of others who might have an interest in pursuing one of these opportunities and if their interests and backgrounds
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<b class="">Marla A. Franco, Ph.D.</b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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Assistant Vice Provost, Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Initiatives<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Higher Education<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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Learn more about the UA’s HSI Initiatives! Click here: <a href="https://hsi.arizona.edu/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><span style="color: blue;" class="">https://hsi.arizona.edu/</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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