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The CTA(Chicago Transit Authority) is making an effort to help small business’ ran by women and minorities by giving them grants, but there are business services behind them, instead of money. This mostly due to the fact that the CTA allocates it transportation services among different groups evenly, but there is a low percentage of [...]

The museum in Greene County is a special museum in that it collects pieces of history from its county only. These can range from Indian arrow heads to World War 2 veterans’ Purple Heart medals. The Greene county officials held a public meeting to see who all would be interested in the history museum, which [...]

Anderson county, Pastor Earlie Dixon of New Birth Worship Center and the Flagship Minority Business Center are pushing their hardest to receive a $7.5 million stimulus grant to open a business office for minorities. The project is being lead by Earlie Dixon and Pastor James Streeter of New Berean Missionary Baptist Church after Dixon went down [...]

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 [...]

Kentucky has found a great hook to bring more “high-tech” companies into the state. Just this year they have awarded 11 grants to companies, even bringing one as far away as Utah is from them. Kentucky has given out 42 grants total from a whopping $14.25 million fund. The basic qualifications are to have a [...]

The ratio of women to men in computer sciences is very bleak, but Microsoft and The National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT, have brought together $220,450 in grant funds that will be awarded to the round 5 winners of their NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund. As stated before, not many women partake in [...]

The Target Volunteers School Library Makeover program will be ran by Target and The Heart of America Foundation and is going to make its first of sixteen “extreme school library transformations” on the tenth of September, ending October the sixteenth as part of ther nation wide grant program. As entailed by the program’s name, their [...]

Laura Teague is one of 10 Louisiana citizens who have greatly benefited from the grants awarded by the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation, who has given out a total of $284,000 this year. Laura put most of her glass works on sale at the LSU Museum of Art store and also in the galleries of the Louisiana [...]

Even large corporations like Wal-Mart understand the importanceof conservation and sustainability, which is shown by them granting $550,000 from the Wal-mart Foundation to six non-profit organizations that had recently worked with the mayor on the Conservation Corps partnership in Long Beach. The grants will be allocated to projects like weatherization, solar paneling, land that is more drought resistant [...]

The Internet has quickly became a widespread tool around the world, but has so many uses to us here in America. One use that is main point of interest is it uses in the marketplace, which now allows the purchase of almost anything without leaving home. The benefits extend to the employer as well though [...]