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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 [...]

Girls Just Wanna Have Funds!

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 [...]

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 [...]

Neighbors in Need getting help

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 [...]

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 [...]

Anderson’s efforts for minority business center

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 [...]

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 [...]

$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 [...]