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Reinvestment Fund, Urban Growth Partners Grant
Organization - Reinvestment Fund, Urban Growth Partners
Grant Amount - $450,000
Foundation - MacArthur Foundation
Grant Purpose - in support of PolicyMap, a national data warehouse and mapping tool.
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Visiting Nurse Association of Mercer County - $25,000 from the Bunbury Company - The Electronic Data Warehouse is a quality improvement tool which will allow for more comprehensive clinical data analysis.
Public Instruction - $750,000 from the Gates Foundation - to support automated realtime collection of student data from local district data systems to a state data warehouse
Metro Chicago Information Center - $75,000 from the Chicago Community Trust - in support of data entry, analysis, processing and integration of the City of Chicago Capital Improvement Plan into its online information mapping tool
University of California, San Diego Center for Research on Biological Systems - $459,356 from the Moore Foundation - This one-year extension grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) will fund continued development of a data integration engine for marine ecology. Specifically, UCSD will: 1) improve the performance of the system to work with larger...
Solpath - $150,000 from the Mott Foundation - This grant provides support for the further development and promotion of GrantsFire, a system which aggregates and publishes grants information using Web 2.0 tools and technology. Currently in an initial pilot phase, GrantsFire makes up-to-date...
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