WIC Special Project Grants

Since 1995, the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has awarded WIC Special Project Grants on a competitive basis to State WIC Programs. These grants are awarded to fund innovative projects that address issues of critical and timely importance and have the potential to improve and enhance the WIC Program. WIC Special Project Grants support Revitalizing Quality Nutrition Services (RQNS) in WIC, an evolving process of continuous program improvement.

2017/2018 Grants

• Chat with WIC (Texas)
• Nutrition and Cooking Class Collaboration (South Dakota)
• WIC Online 2.0: WIC Online with eWIC (Arizona)

2014 Grants

• Summary of 2014 Mini Grants (PDF)
• Texting for Retention Program (Colorado)
• WIC and Head Start Better Together (Connecticut) 
• WIC Outreach Project (Delaware)
• WIC2Five: Using Mobile Health Education Messaging to Support Program Retention (Vermont)

2011 Grants

• WIC Enhanced Referral and Family Support Project (Massachusetts)

2010 Grants

• NY WIC Retention Promotion Study: Keep, Reconnect, Thrive (New York)

2009 Grants

• Revitalizing Quality Nutrition Services: Washington WIC Fruit and Vegetable Community Partnership Grant (Washington)
• Supporting Long-term Breastfeeding With the New WIC Food Packages (You Can Do It / WIC Can Help) (Vermont)

2007 Grants

• Getting to the Heart of the Matter (Massachusetts)
• Get Healthy Together: WIC Staff and Clients Moving Toward Healthier Lifestyles (New Mexico)
• QWIC LEARN (Local, Efficient, Accessible, Responsive, Nutrition Education): Moving Learning Forward (Pennsylvania)
• Strengthening WIC Nutrition Assessment Skills: Establishing a Competency-to-Training Framework in a Learning Management System (Iowa)

2006 Grants

• Modifying and Extending Fit WIC Materials to Start Obesity Prevention in Infancy (Baby Behavior Study) (California)
• WIC Fit-N-Fun Project (New Hampshire)
• Fit WIC NY: Revitalizing Quality Nutrition Services (New York)

2004 Grants

• Implementing and Evaluating a Comprehensive Learner-Centered Program to Promote Fruit and Vegetable Intake Among WIC Children and Their Families (California)
• www.wichealth.org: Innovative Strategies (Michigan)

2003 Grants

• Touching Hearts and Minds: Using Emotion-Based Messages to Promote Healthy Behaviors (Massachusetts)
• Effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing in a WIC Clinic Setting (North Dakota)

2002 Grants

• WIC Services in the Medical Home: Improving Early Feeding Practices (Vermont)
• A Client Centered Approach to Education for Prevention of Overweight in Children (Missouri)

2001 Grants

• Cultural Perspectives on Childhood Overweight Among Hispanic WIC Participants (Massachusetts)
• Project ReNEW: Revitalizing Nutrition Education in the WIC Program (Connecticut)
• Improving How WIC Teaches Nutrition: Using Stages of Change Criteria and Critical Thinking Skills to Teach About Vegetables (Iowa)

2000 Grants

• Revitalizing WIC Nutrition Services: Building on our Strengths (Washington)
• Revitalizing Quality Nutrition Services by Reinvesting in Staff: Training for WIC Staff (Tennessee)
• Revitalizing WIC Nutrition Services through Education on Feeding Relationships and Parenting Skills (New Mexico)