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Researchers to Conduct Fisheries Studies

The projects can focus on the harvesting, processing, marketing and associated business infrastructures.

$1.5 Billion Goes for Rural Broadband Services

The Federal Communications Commission makes grants through its Connect America Fund, which helps support investment in broadband services to rural areas not currently or well-served by high-speed Internet.

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Grants Address Workplace Health, Safety

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration awards $10.5 million in one-year federal safety and health training grants to 80 nonprofit organizations for education and training programs to help high-risk workers and their employers recognize serious workplace hazards, implement injury preventio...

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Collaborations to Enhance Competitiveness

States use these funds to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops through collaborative, multi-state projects.

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Federal Volunteer Program Sets January Deadline

These grants focus on funding AmeriCorps volunteers for the following six types of programs: (1) Disaster Services; (2) Economic Opportunity; (3) Education; (4) Environmental Stewardship; (5) Healthy Futures; and (6) Veterans and Military Families.

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‘Job Corps’ Program Expected Avoid Budget Cuts

The Department of Labor’s Employment & Training Administration proposes maintaining current practices to assess the success of Job Corps graduates who have been placed in employment positions. The processes, which expire on Dec. 31, help ETA make the case to Congress to maintain funding for the controversial program.

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Mississippi Port Expansion Project Revisited

HUD Secretary Julian Castro arrives in Gulfport, MS bearing a big gift for the Mississippi Development Authority -- a three-year reprieve on a promise by the authority to provide 1,300 jobs by the port expansion’s completion.

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Agency Readying $100 Million Competition for ‘Apprenticeship’ Successor

The Employment and Training Administration (DOL) is preparing a $100 million solicitation for a new TechHire Initiative, which will train and connect more workers to employment in technology and other in-demand fields. ETA estimates the solicitation will be released during the winter, with a deadline sometime in late winter or early spring.

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Forest Grants to Focus on Three Categories

The program establishes sustainable urban and community forests by encouraging communities of all sizes to manage and protect their natural resources. If well managed, these forests improve the public’s health, well-being, economic vitality, and create resilient ecosystems for present and future generations.

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Agencies Seek Comments for Final Round of ‘Promise Zones’

The Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) seek written comments on ways to improve the third and final round of the Promise Zones competition, which opens this Fall. Deadline for comment is Sept. 28.

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