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HUD out of luck

The Housing and Urban Development Program is known for its efforts to renovate/build houses to green standards in minority communities by providing all kinds of grants, but they have other subsidiaries that also carry out those tasks, such as ACORN(Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now) who receive their funds from HUD. This is set [...]

Stregenthing a community through grants

There are plenty of simple ways to help your community, but only a few that go down to the source, which the University of Wisconsin System is doing with a set of 18 grants that will help growth in higher education, enrollment, retention, produce more graduates, stimulate more well-paying jobs, which will in turn strengthen [...]

Liberty Mutual funds Youth Sports

The American Association of School Administration has reported that 28% of schools have cut their extracurricular activities, nearly three times as much as last year’s report of 10% and 11% of Americans are cutting back on extracurricular activities. Programs like Liberty Mutual Responsible aim to lower that percent by recruiting parents, coaches, administrators and community [...]

Cox Cable & Non-Profits

The Non-Profit organizations in the regions of Hampton Roads and Roanoke will be receiving grants from Cox Charities, as recently announced by their Advisory Board. Their main focus will be to the non-profits that display youth and education programs as their main points of interest. Cox Communications feels that with the economic and academic problems the [...]

More on ACORN

ACORN recently took a hard blow from the Senate who passed an amendment stating it could no longer receive funds from it’s parent organization, HUD, because of a scandal caused by now former employees. With the loss of the ample funding from HUD, ACORN stands alone in it’s non-profit/community development efforts and will have a [...]

Grants Galore

Maricopa County nonprofits has been making great efforts to improve their surrounding community and it has paid off for them in a big way. The Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust gave them a grant for $4.3 million, they also awarded grants to the to the Center for Sustainable Health located in Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute [...]

Grants gone world wide

There are many third-world-country relief programs that give out food and clothing, but the American Jewish World Service has taken the precedent to another level by awarding grants to 28 countries totaling more than $3.2 million. There are over 150 project that took effect after the grant money was allocated, extended to all race, religion [...]

Benefitting Veterans in Maine

The Department of Veterans Affairs or commonly know as the VA has awarded two grants to the state of Maine to renovate two state Veteran cemeteries. One grant will will go to Northern Maine Veterans Cemetery, to keep their crematorium services operable and to Springvale State Veterans Cemetery for building a committal shelter. The combined [...]

Grants for Health Care reform?

With Obama’s objective of reforming health care still looms over us since he made it such a hot topic, but hasn’t made any head way yet. The forming of a co-op health care system seems quite imaginary at this point because thee point of it is to be ran by non-government-officials while depending on them [...]

Taking the LEAP of faith

A non-profit organization called LEAP, Law Enforcement Apprenticeship Program, and COPS, California Organization of Police and Sheriffs, are facing lawsuits for collecting charity and donations without allocating the money properly or keeping the correct records. The main suspect in all of this is William Hemby, who is normally a dog breeder, has had leading positions [...]