{"id":23583,"date":"2025-09-05T13:29:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/business-operations\/?p=23583"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:38:04","slug":"nifas-first-programs-are-moving-to-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/business-operations\/news\/nifas-first-programs-are-moving-to-era\/","title":{"rendered":"NIFA\u2019s First Programs Are Moving to eRA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>As shared in the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) update on August 20, 2025:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NIFA announces the following programs will be transitioning new Funding Opportunity Announcements to the eRA grants management system in the <strong>first quarter of Fiscal Year 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Equipment Grants Program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Farm Business and Benchmarking Program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Food Safety Outreach Competitive Grants Program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organic Agriculture Research &amp; Extension Initiative<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Renewable Resource Extension Act National Focus Fund Program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants Program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Smith-Lever Special Needs Competitive Grants Program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What Does This Mean for You?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are planning on applying for one of the above opportunities, you should register for eRA Commons as soon as possible. Please <a href=\"https:\/\/links-2.govdelivery.com\/CL0\/https:%2F%2Fwww.nifa.usda.gov%2Fabout-nifa%2Fannouncements%2Fgrants-modernization-programs-new-management-system%3Futm_content=%26utm_medium=email%26utm_name=%26utm_source=govdelivery%26utm_term=\/1\/01010198c9673664-ffcc98a4-d7eb-4c57-b677-bbfdfbcd35fe-000000\/Axp9CGRdqs3jYuEs4rMKTu0xTI5GTJH_X6TiZTsYTpg=419\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">see our announcement<\/a> for more information on how to create an account with eRA Commons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Important Note: Only new applications to the above programs are moving to eRA at this time. Prior awards will continue to operate using previous systems and processes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Upcoming Training<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eRA team will host training to provide an introduction and high-level overview of eRA and its capabilities. This training is available to any potential grant applicants or current grant recipients. The training is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 11, 2-4 p.m. EDT. <a href=\"https:\/\/links-2.govdelivery.com\/CL0\/https:%2F%2Fwww.nifa.usda.gov%2Fevents%2Fintroduction-era-nifa-grant-applicants-recipients%3Futm_content=%26utm_medium=email%26utm_name=%26utm_source=govdelivery%26utm_term=\/1\/01010198c9673664-ffcc98a4-d7eb-4c57-b677-bbfdfbcd35fe-000000\/VjgLeLIYy-RADRY_WoCAuWnijdLk4wsoJEzwa7hgLnM=419\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">To join, register on our event page.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Looking Ahead<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NIFA is working to include additional programs throughout FY 26 and beyond. Keep an eye out for more updates as we continue to modernize our grants management system. <a href=\"https:\/\/links-2.govdelivery.com\/CL0\/https:%2F%2Fwww.nifa.usda.gov%2Fabout-nifa%2Fgrants-modernization-initiative%3Futm_content=%26utm_medium=email%26utm_name=%26utm_source=govdelivery%26utm_term=\/1\/01010198c9673664-ffcc98a4-d7eb-4c57-b677-bbfdfbcd35fe-000000\/wRC0_oBKg8Y0NDHXJ381QiRrrxIOA_FDob19eYSAiAw=419\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">For updates and announcements on NIFA&#8217;s Grants Modernization Initiative (GMI) and eRA migration, visit the GMI webpage.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In order to set-up an eRACommons account in CALS<\/strong>, please send the following information to <a href=\"mailto:cals_preaward@ncsu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cals_preaward@ncsu.edu<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First Name:<br>Middle Name (optional):<br>Last Name:<br>NCSU Email:<br>Preferred Username (please provide 3 options):\u00a0\u00a0<br><em>The User ID length should be between 6 and 30 characters and should NOT contain special characters except the @ sign, the hyphen, the period, and the underscore.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As shared in the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) update on August 20, 2025: NIFA announces the following programs will be transitioning new Funding Opportunity Announcements to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":7607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cbo-news","category-contracts-grants"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/business-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/business-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/business-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/business-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/business-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/business-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23586,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/business-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23583\/revisions\/23586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/business-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/business-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/business-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/business-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}