The Ceres Trust, whose name pays homage to the ancient Roman goddess of agriculture, has as its main focus the support and promotion of organic and sustainable agriculture.

 

The Ceres Trust has announced that it will make grants for organic research totaling $500,000 later this year to universities and other nonprofit organizations in the 12-state North Central Region.

A Request for Applications (RFA) will be posted for the new organic research initiative on a Ceres Trust website the first week of June. Applications for the competitive grants initiative will be due September 15, 2009, and grant decisions will be announced in late November.

Grants of up to $60,000 per year for up to three years will be made. Applicants submitting grant proposals must be based in the 12-state region to be eligible. The states in the region are Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

The Request for Applications is now available.  Please download the PDF document here.

The Ceres Trust is a privately administered charitable trust based in the Midwest.