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CHICAGO - November 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Seventeen grants totaling $250,000 have been awarded to Urban Land Institute (ULI) district and national councils through ULI’s Urban Innovation Grant program. The recipients were announced today at ULI’s Fall Meeting in Chicago

Washington, D.C. - November 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The jury for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Upjohn Research Initiative, a joint program of the College of Fellows and the Board Knowledge Committee to support knowledge sharing between practitioners and academicians, has announced the five projects selected to receive grants.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 31, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Building on two years of grantmaking aimed at strengthening American democracy, the MacArthur Foundation today announced nine grants totaling more than $1.2 million to support information sharing and research on the role of money in politics and efforts to improve election administration.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced $400,000 to help six communities across the country, including Spartanburg, S.C., expand their use of green infrastructure. The funding is in support of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, which directs federal agencies to identify climate-resilient investments such as agency grants and technical assistance for communities across the country.

Washington, DC - October 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- A $1.5 million grant from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation will help NeighborWorks America substantially increase its work to help NeighborWorks network members and nonprofit community development corporations around the U.S. build stronger and sustainable mortgage lending operations, expand affordable homeownership opportunities, enhance the availability of financial capability programs and strengthen community stabilization efforts. The grant is part of a $6.3 million overall commitment to affordable housing this year from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED), a nonprofit dedicated to expanding economic opportunity for low-income families and communities in the U.S., announced today that it will deploy $500,000 to strengthen the capacity of state and local nonprofits to ensure greater access to products, programs and policies that expand financial asset-building opportunities for low-to moderate-income consumers. The expansion is made possible by the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, and is part of the firm’s broader efforts to provide $1.4 million in grants to leading nonprofits that promote the financial capability of consumers.

Bergen County, NJ - October 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rebuilding Together Bergen County and the American Red Cross have joined forces to help bring 30 Bergen County homes flooded by Hurricane Sandy back to safe and healthy housing conditions. Thanks to a $500,000 Red Cross grant, homeowners in Little Ferry and Moonachie will finally be rebuilding their lives and returning to their homes. Part of this funding will go to making critical repairs on homes in Moonachie in October and next January as part of Kickoff to Rebuild, an NFL-sanctioned event hosted by Rebuilding Together, in advance of next year’s Superbowl XVIII in the Meadowlands

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) is pleased to announce the opening of the South Carolina Fair Housing Center in Columbia, South Carolina on September 30, 2013. The center will be established in South Carolina to address the growing need in that community, and is funded by a one million dollar federal grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Fair Housing Initiatives Program.

WASHINGTON - September 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today awarded over $28 million in grants to public housing authorities, resident associations, Indian tribes, and non-profit organizations across the nation to hire or retain service coordinators to help public housing residents find jobs and achieve economic and housing independence. The funding will also link the elderly and people with disabilities with supportive services that allow them to maintain independent living and age-in-place

WASHINGTON, - September 26, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today the Equal Rights Center (ERC)—a national non-profit civil rights organization — announced that it has been awarded two federal grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP)

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 26, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Morris County Heritage Commission has received a grant of $18, 684 from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the New Jersey Department of State, to provide re-grants for local history projects and General Operating Support to history organizations and other non-profit groups that have a history-based project.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 26, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today awarded $38.3 million to 95 fair housing organizations and other non-profit agencies in 38 states and the District of Columbia in an effort to reduce housing discrimination (see attached list of grantees). Read a complete project-by-project summary of the programs awarded grants today.

WASHINGTON, DC - September 26, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) today announced $39.9 million in continuation funding for 10 current Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grantees, strengthening the agency’s investment in local nonprofits that are best positioned to transform lives and communities. These funds allow recipients to meet and exceed program goals, expand reach, and execute rigorous evaluation models

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Hundreds of NAHB Student Chapters members from across the U.S. will have the opportunity to experience the 2014 International Builders’ Show (IBS) Feb. 4-6 in Las Vegas thanks to $60,000 in travel scholarships from the National Housing Endowment.

Martinsburg, W.Va., - September 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.-02) joined area bankers today as they explained how qualified first-time homebuyers in the Eastern Panhandle can obtain grants that make financing a home easier.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 29, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today awarded $12.8 million in “sweat equity” grants to four non-profit self-help housing organizations which will create at least 718 affordable homes for working families. Funded through HUD’s Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP), the funding awarded today, along with the labor contributed by the homebuyers and numerous volunteers, will significantly lower the cost of homeownership.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today awarded nearly $10.5 million in grants designed to protect children and other vulnerable groups from health hazards in their homes. This funding highlights the link between housing and health and develops cost effective methods for mitigating residential hazards. HUD's grants are being awarded to academic and non-profit research institutions studying new methods to recognize and control residential health and safety hazards such as asthma triggers, bed bugs, mold and radon. Read a complete project-by-project summary of the programs awarded grants today.

Washington DC - August 14, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The American Red Cross has awarded grants totaling more than $10 million to eight national nonprofit organizations for recovery programs and services for people affected by Superstorm Sandy.

WILMINGTON, Del. - August 14, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Rep. John Carney (D-Del.) joined the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh (FHLBank) and WSFS Bank to recognize two grants totaling $196,000 that will help Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County in two revitalization projects: Prices Run and Simonds Gardens.

Washington, DC - August 8, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Sixteen leaders from more than one dozen nonprofit community-based organizations located across Pennsylvania are attending the NeighborWorks Training Institute (NTI) in Philadelphia August 19-23 on scholarships provided by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency. The 16 leaders plan to take housing counseling courses with the goal of going back to their communities to provide strong support and to share the knowledge gained from the training to further their organizations’ community development initiatives.