Sec. 205. Technical assistance
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Under the pilot program and for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall award grants to technical assistance community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger groups, in accordance with this section. To be eligible for an award of a grant under this section, a technical assistance community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger group shall submit to the Secretary an application containing a description of how the applicant proposes to use the grant funds to provide technical assistance to all pilot communities.
The application shall be submitted in such form, at such time, and containing such other information as the Secretary may require. In evaluating an application of a technical assistance community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger group, the Secretary shall consider, in addition to such other criteria as the Secretary determines appropriate, the extent to which the application of the technical assistance group demonstrates the following: The ability to provide capacity-building technical assistance to community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger groups.
Organizational and staff experience in— national issues related to emergency food programs, food banks, food rescue organizations, the hunger problem, food insecurity, anti-poverty programs, and nutrition education; providing technical assistance to community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger groups and conducting outreach programs on nutrition assistance and anti-poverty programs; successfully working with national and community service programs, including such programs listed in section 204(b)(1)(L); working cooperatively or in a leadership role with other national, regional, State, and local eligible technical entities; and working with a wide variety of faith-based and community organizations and with community-wide religious and civic organizations.
Proven financial control mechanisms and staff expertise to work with large Federal and private grants, or in the case of a technical assistance community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger group with a small operating budget, effectiveness in program delivery and coordination. The Secretary may provide technical and evaluation assistance to— a technical assistance community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger group awarded a grant under subsection (a); a primary community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger group awarded a grant under section 203(a) or a subgrantee selected under section 203(e); or any community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger group or technical assistance community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger group that does not receive a grant under this Act, but that carries out activities similar to those of such a group or subgrantee.
The head of any Federal department or agency may provide technical assistance to a group or subgrantee referred to in subparagraph (A), (B), or
(C)of paragraph
(1)to carry out activities described in subparagraph
(C)of such paragraph. The Secretary may encourage any appropriate State or local agency or land-grant college or university to provide technical assistance to such groups or subgrantees to carry out such activities.