“Chicago is the City of the Big Shoulders,” says Heather Ireland Robinson, executive director of the Jazz Institute of Chicago, citing the nickname bestowed by Carl Sandburg in his poemChicago, published in 1914. “We hold each other dearly and help each other out. There is room for many...
SOCIAL SERVICE GRANTS DISTRIBUTED; City Boosts Funds for Nonprofits but Still Falls Short on Goal of Providing 1 Percent of Its Budget to Human ServicesFor more than a decade, Spokane's political leaders have saidthey shared the goal of providing 1...By Brunt...
OK, good, good. That’s where I’m from, where I was born and where I live today. For those of you less familiar, Fresno and the entire Central Valley of California is a place that’s built byagriculture: miles and miles of farmland for as far as the eye can see with a couple ...
and also administers preservation grants to supports historic preservation projects across the city by affordable housing agencies, income-eligible homeowners, and nonprofit organizations with significant properties; and by working with residents, community groups, developers, institutions, and government agenci...
The local Salvation Army maintains the area's Homeless Management Information System, a database that pulls information from a number of nonprofits and that is required to receive certain grants. The Salvation Army keeps records for its Booth Family Center and Rapid Rehousing program. It knows its...
Between the city budget, development dollars, and nonprofits and foundations, there is enough money circulating in the city to redistribute wealth to historically disinvested neighborhoods and the people who live in them. There is enough to build institutions for employment, create permanently affordable...
Despite a shutdown of brick-and-mortar operations for more than three months, and running the rest of the year at 25% capacity, Atlantic City's nine casinos saw gambling revenue fall by less than 20% last year compared to 2019.
Request for Information (Criminal Justice practitioners, civil society organizations, private sector, academia) Mexico USAID-Mexico CityThe United States Government, represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Mexico, seeks to increase its understanding of the criminal justice...
Close School of Entrepreneurship. Fry is currently positioning Drexel as a research leader through the Drexel Applied Innovation initiative and the Innovation Fund, which will support Drexel-driven startups and help commercialize university research through $150,000 grants. 3. Liz Magill President, ...
I serve on the boards of three environmental organizations, all focused on some aspect of the New York state environment. I am a trustee of a small foundation that provides grants to (mostly) local arts groups. I am pro bono counsel to the Historic House Trust of New York City, a small...