Yesterday, the Obama administration announced that the Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ), a little-known experiment aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty in north Minneapolis, was in line for a $28 million Promise Neighborhoods grant.
| Read more >The local United Way won a $24.6 million federal grant to bolster children's educational achievement and community development on the East Side, scoring the highest in the nation among applicants, the U.S. Education Department and Mayor Julián Castro announced Monday.
| Read more >The Community Action Project of Tulsa announced Tuesday it is receiving three-quarters of a million dollars in grants to fund educational opportunities in a Tulsa neighborhood.
| Read more >The Buffalo Promise Neighborhood, a collaborative effort led by M&T Bank and the Westminster Foundation to provide a life-changing continuum of cradle-to-career services to some of Buffalo’s underprivileged children, has been awarded an historic $6 million grant from the U.S. Department of...
| Read more >Senior officials from the Obama Administration announced today that five organizations will receive the first round of Promise Neighborhoods implementation grants, and another 15 organizations will receive a second round of planning grants. Grantees, comprised of nonprofit organizations,...
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