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2. Community Action Agencies - Wikipedia

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   Community Action Agencies. In the United States and its territories, Community Action Agencies ( CAA) are local private and public non-profit organizations that carry out the Community Action Program ( CAP ), which was founded by the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act to fight poverty by empowering the poor as part of the War on Poverty . CAAs are ...

3. Empowerment zone - Wikipedia

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   Empowerment zone. Within United States federal legislation, an empowerment zone is an economically distressed community eligible to receive tax incentives and grants from the United States federal government under the Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities Act of 1993. [1]

4. Administration of federal assistance in the United States

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   In the United States, federal assistance, also known as federal aid, federal benefits, or federal funds, is defined as any federal program, project, service, or activity provided by the federal government that directly assists domestic governments, organizations, or individuals in the areas of education, health, public safety, public welfare, and public works, among others.

5. Funding Black-owned businesses facts and statistics - AOL

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   These institutions provide government-backed loans to businesses in low-income communities. Grants.gov: This is a database of all federal grant programs for businesses. It contains grants from ...

6. Community Services Block Grant - Wikipedia

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   The Community Services Block Grant ( CSBG) provides federal funding for Community Action Agencies (CAAs) and other programs that seek to address poverty at the community level. Like other block grants, CSBG funds are allocated to the states and other jurisdictions (including tribes, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and ...

7. Federal grants in the United States - Wikipedia

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   A federal grant is an award of financial assistance from a federal agency to a recipient to carry out a public purpose of support or stimulation authorized by a law of the United States. Grants are federal assistance to individuals, benefits or entitlements. A grant is not used to acquire property or services for the federal government's direct ...