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Sneak Preview: Obama Challenges Governors to Increase Education Funding

March 6, 2012 – 3:12 pm

(This post is based on an upcoming article in Thompson’s Local/State Funding Report. Subscribers can read the entire piece in their March 12 issue.) President Obama used his audience at the recent meeting of the National Governors Association as an…

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Thompson Seeks Managing Editor for Grant Publications

March 5, 2012 – 4:01 pm

Hear ye, hear ye! If you’re a regular reader of Funding Attractions, you may recall that we occasionally post about interesting job openings related to the grants community. Well, today we have a doozy of an opportunity to tell you…

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Sneak Preview: DHS to Consolidate Major Preparedness Grant Programs

February 29, 2012 – 6:53 am

(This post was excerpted from an article in the Feb. 27 issue of Local/State Funding Report.) The Department of Homeland Security recently released its plans for the fiscal year 2013 National Preparedness Grant Program, which is administered by the Federal…

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Sneak Preview: HUD Awards $30 Million to Brownfields Projects

February 21, 2012 – 1:29 pm

(This post originally appeared in the Feb. 13 issue of Local/State Funding Report.) The Department of Housing and Urban Development recently announced awards totaling $30.5 million that were made through three competitions of its Brownfields Economic Development Initiative program.

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Happy Birthday, Recovery Act!

February 17, 2012 – 10:59 am

Three years ago today, President Obama signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 – otherwise known as the stimulus bill, the Recovery Act or ARRA – into law. And the opinions about it have been flying…

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The Budget Is Here! The Budget Is Here!

February 14, 2012 – 1:13 pm

Yesterday, President Obama released his proposed budget for fiscal year 2013, and it was possible to hear the laughter from Capitol Hill at our offices a few blocks away. Let’s face it: the responsibility of proposing a federal budget during…

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TIGER Preapplications Due Feb. 20

February 13, 2012 – 6:37 am

No lions and bears on the docket today, but we do want to make sure you know that there’s one week left to submit a preapplication for discretionary Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants. Through this competition, the Department…

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Sneak Preview: Grantseeking Quicktips – Agency Focus: SAMHSA

February 10, 2012 – 10:39 am

(This post is based on an upcoming article in Thompson’s Local/State Funding Report. Subscribers can read the entire piece in their Feb. 13 issue.) Better applicants mean better projects and better fulfillment of grant program missions. The federal agencies that…

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Become a Grant Reviewer to Become a Better Applicant

February 7, 2012 – 2:06 pm

One of the smartest things a grantseeker can do is find a way to get inside the heads of those who make the decisions about which grant applications to fund. Sometimes that’s as simple as reading the fine print of…

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MetLife Foundation To Recognize Outstanding Community-Police Partnerships

February 6, 2012 – 2:21 pm

(A version of this post first appeared in Thompson’s Local/State Funding Report.) The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) and MetLife Foundation have announced the latest competition for the 2012 MetLife Foundation Community-Police Partnership awards. Ten awards totaling $185,000 are expected…

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