The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Hunter College a grant of $1.2 million to support scholarly study groups bringing together academics, journalists, and artists from both Puerto Rico and its diaspora at Hunter’s Center for Puerto Rican Studies, the Centro announced. The Centro has a 50-year legacy of interdisciplinary and collaborative research. This new […]
The US Department of Agriculture announced it is accepting applications for grants to assist in the preservation of affordable rural rental housing, for which it is making $3 million available. Grant recipients will provide services to multi-family housing borrowers and applicants. These services will help facilitate the transfer of properties financed with USDA direct loans […]
Fourteen small businesses in the town of Vega Baja will receive grants of up to $50,000 each for a total of $659,112, town Mayor Marcos Cruz-Molina announced. The funding comes following an alliance between the municipality, the Puerto Rico Economic Development Bank, and the Community Socio-Economic Institute (INSEC, in Spanish). The first entrepreneurs who each […]
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