San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero announced the availability of $4.3 million in federal funds through the municipality’s “Capital Entrepreneurship” program, which in turn will benefit up to 800 of the town’s microentrepreneurs who have suffered economic losses as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and who have been in operation for at least one year. […]
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced $24 million in grants for 225 humanities projects across the country, including a $290,750 allocation to Puerto Rican nonprofit organization Para la Naturaleza Inc. The grant will support Para La Naturaleza in developing a project called “Flora Borinqueniana: Three Centuries of Botanical Illustrations,” which is described as a […]
Puerto Rico’s 78 towns have completed the application process for the third phase of the Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) Assistance Program to Municipalities, Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF, in Spanish) Executive Director Omar Marrero said. As part of the process, the central government will assign $1 million to each town so they can continue to […]
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