The Pikes Peak Library District is one of 76 community library districts throughout the state to benefit from a $3.3 million grant to add more computers and Internet services to the state’s libraries. In Colorado, the money will pay for 692 laptop computers, 451 desktop computers and 69 computer stations for the disabled. The money [...] [...]
Colorado’s safety net clinics will benefit form a $500,000 Kaiser Permanente grant program. The grant program aims to improve the quality of care at the clinics, which largely serve uninsured or under-insured people. Statewide, more than 500,000 people use the clinics annually. Individual grants will range from $10,000 to $100,000 and will be available to nonprofit health [...] [...]
Applications are now available to nonprofit organizations for this year’s Wells Fargo Community Assistance Fund. Through the community assistance fund, more than 200 community-based nonprofits will receive grants, totaling $246,000. The deadline to apply is June 30. Organizations must be 501(c)(3) certified and have an annual budget of $350,000 or less. “What this fund is really for [...] [...]
Penrose-St. Francis Health Services will receive part of a $10.4 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to continue the community cancer center program. The program is now a permanent initiative sponsored by the NCI, which is using $80 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to expand high-level research to a total of [...] [...]
Employers in El Paso and Teller counties facing possible layoffs can now take advantage of a new grant program offered through the Pikes Peak Workforce Center. The Incumbent Workers program provides grants for training so that companies can help their employees learn new skills or upgrade existing skills to ensure business competitiveness. Grant funds are [...] [...]
Colorado nursing home patients and their families will soon benefit from $200,000 in state grants for projects aimed at improving nursing home residents’ quality of care and quality of life. Money for these grants comes from fines levied by the Colorado Nursing Facility Culture Change Accountability Board against nursing homes that fail to meet state [...] [...]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will offer $24 million in grants for research and development organizations focused on animal health, reproduction, breeding, genetics and nutrition. The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative includes four major programs: animal reproduction; animal genome, genetics and breeding; animal growth and nutrient utilization and integrated solutions for animal agriculture. The department [...] [...]
Proposals in Congress to increase access for Small Business Innovation Research grants have garnered both accolades and aspersions. One bill that has passed the House of Representatives would allow all companies that receive venture capital funding to be eligible to compete for the grants. A bill being considered by the Senate caps venture capital at [...] [...]
Peak Vista Community Health Centers has received an additional $1.8 million from the capital investment program from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The health center has also recieved two other grants from the stimulus package: one for $776,173 to add new staff and increase patients and the other for $1.3 million to provide part [...] [...]
Front Range police departments have received $2 million in grants from the Colorado Auto Theft Prevention Authority to help catch car thieves. Eight awards were given to seven multi-jurisdictional auto theft task forces made up of 34 law enforcement agencies. “The bad economy threatens to increase Colorado’s auto theft problem at a time when local [...] [...]
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