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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 [...]

Bunker Hill College will thrive.

A total of 87 students from Bunker Hill College in Boston, Massacusetts will benefit from a grant fund of $63,000, which comes out to about $725 each. These grants were awarded to try and stem the tide of the economy causing more students to not re-enroll and had such a positive response that the school will [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Museum obtained for Greene County

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 [...]

$650 million in Education Grants

There has been a nationwide effort to renovate how schools are both operated and their education expectation levels due to Obama’s education reforms. A staggering $650 million is being allocated for “Investing in Innovation”, which has basically turned into a race between the school districts of all the states. One state that is pushing the [...]

Stopping the nurse shortage

A shortage of any medical staff is a scare, but nurses are like the worker bee’s of the hive. Every doctor and surgeon plays an important role, but nurses are able to excel in multiple fields of medicine and a shortage of them means the hospital moves even slower than it should,which nobody wants. So [...]

Help for low-income parents

Low-income single mothers and fathers can receive a break, thanks to the Center for Work Education and Employments grants to help them obtain steady jobs. The CWEE(Center for Work Education and Employments) has received major funding from both Rose Women’s Organization for $6,500 and the Daniels Fund for $30,000. The Rose Community Foundation or RWO(Rose [...]

$140 million cut from Michigan colleges

It seems another state will have to make its colleges and college students suffer because of a $140 million Grant Promise being cut down to an undetermined number or possibly none at all. This grants cut has affected students in all grades and types of colleges, forcing some to even leave universities for the cheaper [...]

Grants recharge Michigan

With the ratio of Michigan Tech students staying or leaving the state after graduation is not looking in Michigan’s so they found a way to keep their students in the state, or so they hope they have. State Officals and Gerald Meyers, a former auto executive and now business professor, plan to start by stimulating [...]