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Organization - Chicago Jobs Council
Grant Amount - $435,000
Foundation - MacArthur Foundation
Grant Purpose - in support of employment related services to help low-income families succeed in new mixed-income housing.
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Urban Institute - $400,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - for use by its Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center toward the costs of two mixed-income housing research projects: (1) a longitudinal study to assess how the HOPE VI program, in which distressed developments are being replaced with...
Jobs for the Future - $331,000 from the Mott Foundation - Jobs for the Future, in partnership with the National Council for Workforce Education, will support a new generation of college innovation building upon "Breaking Through", an earlier Mott Foundation-supported national initiative. This...
Interfaith Education Fund - $450,000 from the Mott Foundation - This grant will continue support to the Interfaith Education Fund to replicate and expand the scale of its sectoral employment initiatives throughout the Southwest. The grantee's sectoral employment initiatives define the skills required to...
Public/Private Ventures - $300,000 from the Mott Foundation - This grant renewal allows Public/Private Ventures to continue the random assignment evaluation started in 2006 so that the city of San Antonio can discern the impact that Project QUEST is having on the earnings and employment of its citizens. ...
Urban Institute - $200,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - for use by its Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center in support of research to assess the impact of an innovative demonstration project that aims to provide families facing multiple barriers to successful relocation to mixed-income or...
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