Project Grant NYLHD030316

The Lehigh Valley Equitable Entrepreneurship Project received a $150,000 project grant award from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration under the Economic Development Technical Assistance federal grant program (CFDA 11.303). The project will scale technical assistance and research efforts to advance relationships with financial institutions and large businesses in order to promote local sourcing, supplier diversity, and capital access for historically disadvantaged...

The Latin American Economic Development Association (LAEDA), doing business as Laeda, received a $251,956 Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families under the Community Services Block Grant Discretionary Awards (CFDA 93.570) program. The grant will fund the development of a Food Business Development Center in New Jersey over a two-year period from September 2023 to September 2025. Laeda is a non-profit organization that provides...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a $5,700,000 Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant to the City of Allentown, PA to identify and control lead-based paint hazards in privately-owned rental and owner-occupied housing where children under 6 reside. This 4-year grant, awarded under CFDA 14.905, will enable the city to conduct lead hazard inspections, risk assessments, abatement, and interim control activities in approximately 3,700 low-income housing units,...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $8,450,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program to Li Industries, Inc. The objective of the project is to develop an integrated, faster, and more cost-effective automated sorting and neutralization preprocessing system for end-of-life consumer electronics batteries. This effort aims to reduce the logistics costs associated with lithium-ion...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $900,000 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) under the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance program (CFDA 81.117). The overall goal of this 3-year project, named the Louisiana Building Training and Assessment Centers (LA BTAC), is to create a sustainable and replicable statewide building workforce training program that addresses building...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $162,825 to the University of California, Merced to develop DLTOOLKIT, a performance profiling infrastructure tailored for domain scientists to analyze and optimize science-driven deep learning (DL) applications. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to create novel profiling capabilities that: (a) streamline domain-specific knowledge from...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a $7,750,000 Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant to the Los Angeles County Development Authority (LACDA) under the Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program (CFDA 14.900). The grant, effective from November 15, 2024 to November 15, 2028, aims to identify and control lead-based paint hazards in privately-owned rental and owner-occupied housing where children under 6 years old reside, particularly in low-income and minority...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, with a total funding amount of $219,328, aims to design gradient-sampling-based algorithms for solving important classes of optimization problems arising in various application areas. The project will focus on extending contemporary gradient-sampling algorithms to handle computational and/or stochastic noise in function and derivative evaluations, which can occur when the objective...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $81,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Lewis Ridge Pumped Storage, LLC. The award aims to demonstrate the conversion of former mining lands into a pumped storage hydroelectric (PSH) facility and showcase the competitiveness of a project that will provide energy storage across multiple markets. The project also seeks to provide tangible benefits to impacted communities aligned with local...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded the City of Akron a $7,750,000 Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant on March 15, 2025. This grant, authorized under CFDA 14.905, aims to assist state, local, and tribal governments in identifying and controlling lead-based paint hazards in privately-owned rental and owner-occupied housing where children under 6 years old reside. The grant funding will enable the City of Akron to undertake a comprehensive program to assess and...