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(EDUCATION) Frueauff Foundation Provides Grants for Youth Programs

Private Funder: Frueauff Foundation; Opportunity: 2011 funding programs; Funding Focus: Education; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Nonprofits; Funding: Up to $100,000 each; Deadline: Rolling. Summary: Beginning with its first grant to Columbia U. in 1951, the Frueauff Foundation has suppor...

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(CHILDREN'S HEALTH) Putting Patients First Program

Private Funder: Association for Medical Imaging Management and Toshiba; Opportunity: Putting Patients First Program; Funding Focus: Health -- improving pediatric or adult patient care and safety; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Nonprofits, hospitals and imaging centers; Funding: six grants ...

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(SOCIAL SERVICES) Oprah Winfrey Foundation

Deadline: Rolling. The queen of daytime television, Oprah Winfrey, has her own private, charitable foundation that supports a range of education and social service programs for children and minorities. ...

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(REGULATIONS) ACF Proposes Broad Child Welfare Survey

Health & Human Services Dept.'s Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is proposing a broad national survey of child-welfare participants to determine whether pending legislation would shrink the child-welfare rolls. Public Comment Deadline: Nov. 26. ACF wants to conduct an April 2010 ...

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(WORKFORCE) WV Will Use $11M for Unemployment Insurance Modernization

The Dept. of Labor releases more than $11 million in unemployment insurance (UI) modernization incentive funds to the state of West Virginia. West Virginia qualified for a portion of its share of the funds available under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (PL 111-5) by allowing workers to...

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(INFRASTRUCTURE) WV Looking to Use CDBG-R Funds for Water Services

West Virginia state officials are proposing to use the $4.515 million in Community Development Block Grant stimulus (CDBG-R) requests for three projects that are expected to improve water services to hundreds of homes.

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(ENVIRONMENT) WV Group to Use $75K Stimulus for C&O Towpath Improvements

The Nat'l Park Service intends to award $75,000 in funding from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act for the maintenance and improvement of Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) Canal Towpaths.

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(STATES) Most States Failing to Use the Web Effectively to Track Stimulus Spending

While some states have created impressive Web sites to disseminate information about their share of the Recovery Act, most are failing to make effective use of online technology, according to a report released today by Good Jobs First, a nonprofit research center based in Washington, D.C.

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(SAFETY) FEMA Provides $210M in ARRA $$$ for State, Local Firefighting Efforts

Agency: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); Program: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Fire Station Construction Grant (SCG) Program, CFDA Number: 97.115, no cost sharing or matching; Eligibility: Non-federal fire departments and state and local governments that fund/operate fire depart...

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(FAQ) Answers to Questions about ARRA's $19.2B in HIT Funding

Readers have submitted questions regarding the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology (HIT) Provisions. We provide answers to those questions here. The HIT provisions of ARRA are found primarily in Division A, the Health Information Technology for Economic ...

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