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Tribal Colleges Education Equity Grants Program
Agency: National Institute of Food and Agriculture
The TCEG program (assistance listing 10.221) is designed to help build Tribal education capacity in the food and agricultural sciences for Native Alaskan/American Indian students. This NOFO will begin a new four-year continuation funding cycle. The six legislatively mandated priorities are:
• Curricula design and materials development.
• Faculty development and teacher preparation.
• Student experiential learning
• Equipment and instrumentation for teaching science, technology, engineering, arts and math.
• Student recruitment and retention.
• Instruction delivery systems and strategic partnerships.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants
Miscellaneous
Other
Additional information
Applicants for the Tribal Colleges Education Equity Grant Program must meet all the requirements discussed in this NOFO. Failure to meet the eligibility criteria by the application deadline may result in exclusion from consideration or preclude NIFA from making an award. For those new to Federal financial assistance, NIFA’s About Grants provides highly recommended information about grants and other resources to help understand the Federal awards process.
Applications may only be submitted by Tribal Colleges or Universities designated as a 1994 Land-grant Institutions (1994 institution) under the Equity Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 301note). Award recipients may subcontract to organizations not eligible to apply provided such organizations are necessary for the conduct of the project. Failure to meet an eligibility criterion by the time of application deadline may result in the application being excluded from consideration. The eligible 1994 institutions are listed below.
Table 3: Eligible 1994 Institutions
Aaniiih Nakoda College
Bay Mills Community College
Blackfeet Community College
Cankdeska Cikana Community College
Chief Dull Knife College
College of the Menominee Nation
College of the Muscogee Nation
Dine’ College
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College
Fort Peck Community College
Haskell Indian Nations University
Ilisagvik College
Institute of American Indian Arts
Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College
Leech Lake Tribal College
Little Big Horn College
Little Priest Tribal College
Navajo Technical University
Nebraska Indian Community College
Northwest Indian College
Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College
Oglala Lakota College
Red Lake Nation College
Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College
Salish Kootenai College
Sinte Gleska University
Sisseton Wahpeton College
Sitting Bull College
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
Stone Child College
Tohono O’odham Community College
Turtle Mountain Community College
United Tribes Technical College
White Earth Tribal and Community College
Grantor contact information
Description
Business hours: Monday thru Friday, 8a.m. – 5p.m. CT, except federal holidays
This site is a work in progress. Go to www.grants.gov to apply, track application status, and subscribe to updates.
Award
$8,000,000
Program Funding
35
Expected awards
$228,571
Award Minimum
$228,571
Award Maximum
Funding opportunity number:
USDA-NIFA-TCEG-011837
Cost sharing or matching requirement:
No
Funding instrument type:
Grant
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation:
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Category of Funding Activity:
Agriculture
Category Explanation:
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History
Version:
1
Posted date:
August 24, 2026
Archive date:
November 6, 2026
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