Cooperative Agreement 72011121CA00002

The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund within the Department of the Treasury awarded Communityworks $1.8 million under the Community Development Financial Institutions Rapid Response Program (CDFI RRP, CFDA 21.024) on June 15, 2021. The funding is to be utilized through December 31, 2023 to support Communityworks' ability to address the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on its communities. As a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), Communityworks will...

The Women's Opportunities Resource Center (WORC) received a $1,418,000 Project Grant award from the Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) under the Community Development Financial Institutions Rapid Response Program (CDFI RRP, CFDA #21.024). The two-year award will support WORC's ability to provide financial assistance and prepare for and respond to the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic through September 2023. The CDFI RRP aims to...

Worcester Community Housing Resources, Inc. was awarded a $750,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund under the Community Development Financial Institutions Rapid Response Program (CDFI RRP, CFDA 21.024). The award period is from June 15, 2021 through December 31, 2023. The CDFI RRP provides funding to Community Development Financial Institutions to support, prepare for, and respond to the economic impact of the coronavirus...

Neighborworks Capital Corporation received a $1.8 million project grant award from the Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund under the Community Development Financial Institutions Rapid Response Program (CDFI RRP, CFDA 21.024). The award period is from June 15, 2021 through December 31, 2023 and will support Neighborworks Capital's ability to provide financial and technical assistance to communities and businesses impacted by the economic effects of the...

Act! (Albany Community Together!), Inc. was awarded a $664,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund under the Community Development Financial Institutions Rapid Response Program. The grant will support Act!'s ability to respond to the economic impacts of the coronavirus by providing financial and other services to communities from June 2021 through December 2023. The CDFI Rapid Response Program aims to support Community Development...

The Sustainable Communities Fund received a $1.8 million project grant award from the Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund under the Community Development Financial Institutions Rapid Response Program. The grant period runs from June 15, 2021 through December 31, 2023 and will support the Sustainable Communities Fund's ability to respond to the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. As part of the CDFI Rapid Response...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration under the WIOA Dislocated Worker National Reserve Demonstration Grants program (CFDA 17.280) provides $991,759 to Resilience Force, a non-profit organization, to implement a sectoral strategy to create good climate resilience jobs and develop a skilled, scaled resilience workforce. The project, titled "A Good Jobs Blueprint in the Climate Resilience Economy", will recruit, train, and...

This Project Grant award of $549,983 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to analyze public health crisis response and backlash experienced by state and local officials during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research aims to develop a conceptual framework for understanding variation in crisis response and backlash, testing hypotheses through qualitative interviews, social media analysis, and other data...

The Central County Community Development Corporation (CDC) received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Department of the Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions Fund under the Community Development Financial Institutions Rapid Response Program (CDFI RRP, CFDA 21.024). The two-year award will support the CDC's ability to respond to the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic in its service area through June 2023. As a Community Development Financial Institution, the CDC...

This $4.96 million cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities supports the development of a knowledge network infrastructure and applications related to COVID-19 science and economics from May 2021 through August 2022. Funded under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), which aims to enhance STEM competitiveness through capacity building and broadening participation, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will create a knowledge...