Post

IRP RIDGE Center for National Food and Nutrition Assistance Research 2015–2016 Small Grants Program
Request for Proposals

Purpose
The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) seeks to stimulate innovative research related to federal food assistance programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP (formerly Food Stamps) and the National School Breakfast/Lunch Program, and to support training of researchers interested in food assistance issues.

Focal Research Theme for 2015–2016
The Impacts of Food Assistance Programs on Child, Adult, and Family Well-Being
Food assistance programs have grown dramatically in recent years. Program growth has occurred in conjunction with other trends, including persistently high poverty and food insecurity rates.
The focus of the 2015–2016 IRP RIDGE Center for National Food and Nutrition Assistance Research funding competition is on the impacts of food assistance programs on well-being, broadly defined. Overall, we are seeking to fund work that expands our understanding of the importance of food assistance programs in influencing a variety of indicators of well-being, including but not limited to food security, school performance, learning, health, nutrition, and employment. We have a particular interest in research that goes beyond simple participation measures to explore how program outcomes may be linked to program characteristics, interactions among food assistance programs and local contexts, multiple program participation, intensity or duration of program exposure, and similar topics.

Further details about the research priority are available at: http://www.irp.wisc.edu/initiatives/irpridge/themes.htm.