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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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Neighbors in Need Fund, a subsidiary charity of The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, will be giving out grants from a $714,000 fund and will be awarding them to various homeless shelters, clothing, foreclosure-prevention, and meal programs that are part of the 37 Washington, DC based charities that will receive a grant. The [...]

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 [...]

In Nashville, Tennessee, two universities have been making strides towards getting more minorities to earn their PhD in physics and astronomy. This earned the Fisk and Vanderbilt universities three federal grants, totaling at $3.7 million. Together, the two universities have created the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD program, which in the 5 years it has been running has [...]

The NAACP is widely known throughout our country and others, not standing for any form of racial inequality among African Americans. There recent qualm was with Missouri Department of Transportation’s(MoDOT) allocation of transportation services weren’t giving the African American services their fair share of the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery Grants. Lester Woods in the civil [...]

Science students of Dade College’s North Campus helped the school receive a grant of nearly $1 million to go towards recruiting minorities into more science and engineering fields, as well as  a mentoring program designed to recruit and train mentors that can bring in more minorities to these fields.  As a stipulation of the funds, the [...]