Grant Awarded to Fund the Construction of New Homes for Individuals in Need MONROE, La., June 1, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas) and Community Trust Bank are pleased to announce they have awarded a $120,000 Affordable Housing Program (AHP) grant to the Rays of Sonshine, to help fund the construction of 12 new homes for very low-income residents. The Rays of Sonshine is building the homes as part of a comprehensive neighborhood revitalization in a south Monroe, Louisiana, neighborhood. Rays of Sonshine is calling the project the Sonshine Community of Hope. The 12 new homes will provide permanent and permanent supportive housing to chronically homeless people, and very low-income individuals and families. |
Funding News President's Choice® Children's Charity awards $2.6 million to Breakfast for Learning for the 2012/2013 school year Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1054354#ixzz2K3To0c4BBRAMPTON, ON, Feb. 5, 2013 /CNW/ - President's Choice® Children's Charity has awarded $2.6 million to Breakfast for Learning to help fund more than 2,900 programs in almost 2,000 schools across Canada for the 2012/2013 school year. These funds will support student nutrition programs that aim to fight childhood hunger by giving students access to healthy breakfasts, lunches and snacks. Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1054354#ixzz2K3Try2LK Read More > Bill Gates Awards Grants for Reinventing the ToiletLast year, we wrote about a challenge that former Microsoft CEO and philanthropist Bill Gates posed to the scientific and engineering community: reinvent the toilet. According to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, forty percent of people on Earth, or about 2.5 billion people, don’t have a safe and sanitary way of doing their business, so the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge was born. Read More >TESTIMONIALS |
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