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Grant Approval at Standstill for Music Venues

When most people hear the term "small business," they typically think about hair salons, small restaurants, plumbing shops, and other sorts of traditional businesses. However, there are many more business types in this category,...

CalFresh Recertification August 2025: Don’t Miss This Deadline or You Might Lose Benefits

If you receive CalFresh benefits in California, there’s an important deadline coming up in August 2025 that could affect your monthly food support. To keep your benefits going...

HHS Expands Access to Affordable Health Insurance Through Hardship Exemptions

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued new hardship exemption guidance that expands access to affordable catastrophic health insurance plans. This change helps American...

Nonprofits Include in COVID Relief Grants

Nonprofits Include in COVID Relief Grants America spent an insane amount of money at the federal level when COVID struck the nation last year. There were three different instances of the federal government passing spending bills wel...

Individual Grants Offered by the United Nations Government to Different Groups

The American government provides different individual grants for some deserving struggling residents. It offers financial aid to various groups such as single moms, those living with disabilitie...

Applications Open: States Can Claim Share of $50B Rural Health Program Funding

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the Rural Health Transformation Program, a landmark $50 billion federal initiative aimed at improving health care across rural A...

Illinois United Way Foundation Announces More COVID-19 Relief Grants

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act was passed by Congress on March 27, 2020. It included more than $2 trillion in aid. The aid was to be disbursed over many months, allowing in...

California Governor Releases Utility Shut-off Prevention Grants

On Monday, March 29, Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California, announced that the state will distribute $50 million in Community Power Resiliency grants. Those grants will be administered by the California Gover...

Federal COVID Grants Available but Slow

2020 was a year of many things. Future generations may remember it as the year that the United States of America spent multiple trillions of dollars, and no one really knows where any of this money went, except into the pockets of bil...