Recent Results tagged “grant”
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Local Homeless Advocate Blogger Wins $50K Grant
Via NPR This morning in Austin, Texas, where the annual SXSW conference is being held, Pepsi announced the winner of its Refresh SXSW Challenge, in which three people competed for a $50,000 prize to launch a web-based campaign for good. Mark Horvath, who was once homeless himself on the streets of Los Angeles, won the grant for his blog InvisiblePeople.TV. He even won against SparkHelp, a location-based mobile application that looks to connect people...
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Rumor Train: California to Get Money for High Speed Rail from Feds
The proposed Anaheim ARTIC Station A big false alarm was rung late last week in the form of who was getting money for high speed rail projects around the country. Among the awardees was California, which requested around $4.5 billion for segments include Anaheim to Los Angeles. The source of the rumor was Florida Rep. John Mica who reportedly said his state was one of four to receive a sum of the $8 billion...
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Senate Cuts CA's High Speed Rail Funding, Rally at Union Station Set for Today
This morning, officials from various groups, including two L.A. City Councilmembers, will urge Senator Dianne Feinstein to continue her support and leadership of California's high speed rail proposal and $4 billion in funding designated in the 2010 transportation spending bill. While the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that included $4 billion in funding for the high speed rail network, which would speed passengers between L.A. and San Francisco in under three hours,...
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23 Members of Congress Put Support Behind High Speed Rail Project
Last week, after a few rallies throughout the state, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger handed in a grant to the feds, asking for $4.8 billion in stimulus money for California's high speed rail project, which would take passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in a few hours. Today, that grant drew support from both of California's U.S. Senators and 21 other congressional leaders, including many from Los Angeeles. “When it comes to constructing high-speed rail,...
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Supporters of High Speed Rail to Rally at Union Station Friday
Last week the California High-Speed Rail Authority voted to submit a grant application to the federal government, asking for $4.8 billion in stimulus money for a high speed rail line that would connect Los Angeles and San Francisco with a few hours trip. On Friday, that application will be submitted after few rallies across the state, including one in Los Angeles. California High Speed Rail officials along with politicians and other supporters will speak...
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California to Ask for $4.5 Billion in High Speed Rail Stimulus Funds
With the feds yearning to give away $8 billion in Recovery Act money to states for high-speed train development, California officials today prepared to submit an application asking for more than half of that. "California is a leading contender for this federal funding because our true high-speed rail system is further along than any other project in the country," said California High-Speed Rail Authority Chairman Curt Pringle. "Plus, we can double the value of...
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Metro Receives Stimulus Funds for Red Line Subway Train
Cyclists wait at the Hollywood & Vine Station | Photo by GarySe7en via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr But don't get too excited, the money from the feds going to the transit line is not for extending it northbound towards Burbank airport or anything close to that. Today's announcement from is about reducing energy consumption. The White Explains in a press release: The transit agency will use the $4.5 million grant to install a...
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Facing No Money, Homeboy Industries Saved for Now
Workers print T-shirts at the Homeboy Industries shop in the Boyle Heights (AP Photo/Philip Scott Andrews) Last week, the nation's largest anti-gang program was looking at their own financial crisis. After Friday, Homeboy Industries would have been out of money, thanks to the economy that blew a $5 million hole into the nonprofit's budget this year. For a place with the slogan "nothing stops a bullet like a job," they were considering furloughs. Now,...
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Feds Help Local Domestic Violence Shelters with Grants
Photo by ghetto_guera29 via Flickr While Schwarzenegger slashed 100% of funding for domestic violence in California, the Department of Justice today announced that Recovery Act money is heading to a handful of grants to domestic violence shelters in California, including two in Southern California. House of Ruth, Inc in Los Angeles County received $500,000 and $520,755 was awarded to the Southern California Alcohol and Drug Program headquartered in Downey. “The most vulnerable in our...
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Machine Project's $35K Grant Canceled, Calls for Help
Machine Project in Echo Park, which "exists to encourage heroic experiments of the gracefully over-ambitious," was to receive a 35k grant this month, but given the economic state, the grant was canceled. The organization runs on donations and now they are worried about making their rent payments. Machine Head recently participated in a one day take over of the LACMA and are calling on all LACMA friends to help by donating money, purchasing a membership...
