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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 [...]

Mary Kay is know among women as a provider of great make-up and beauty products, but now she will be know as providing another service to women, grants. The Mary Kay Foundation’s annual shelter grant giving program has just recently granted 150 domestic violence shelters in each state with $20,000, coming out to a totaled [...]

Santa Cruz will be seeing some major budget cuts to their programs that aid battered and homeless women. One organization that is being greatly affected is Women’s Crisis Support-Defensa de Mujeres(meaning Defending the Women) has already seen employees let go, work days/hours being, pay cuts at 20% and they even won’t be able to hire [...]

Usually when someone is awarded a grant, there are stipulations as to how the funding is spent and how long you have to spend it. Well there was recently two grants awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, as “genius grants” at $500,000 each, with limitations on how they spend the money [...]

Nevada Blind Children’s Fund is one of many non-profit organizations who not only say, but prove their dedication to their cause. NBCF regularly holds events that raise funds for their cause and have newsletter memberships that also fuel the fund. Along with their fund raising, they offer a good amount of services such as Parental education [...]

Stop! Children’s Cancer Inc is a local Florida non-profit organization that has awarded altogether $3.5 million in grants over 28 years for research in finding cures for children with cancer, specifically focused leukemia, glioblastoma and neuroblastoma strains. They recently awarded a $150,000 grant to three local cancer researchers through programs like The Fantasy Event at [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Members of the Fund for Women non-profit organization and the Girls Just Wanna Have Funds! event were guest at Linda Dickey’s house as part of a recent charity drive that took place on September the third. Linda is a renowned watercolor painter and also a member of the Fund for Women, so the Girls Just Wanna [...]

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 [...]