Grants From the Department of Housing and Urban Development
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The programs that are offered by the HUD are divided into the following major categories:

1) The Office of Community Planning and Development - The programs under this office seek to create and develop viable communities by way of encouraging integrated approaches tat provide decent housing opportunities, suitable living environments, and more importantly, expanding economic opportunities for low and moderate income persons.

2) Federal Housing Administration (FHA) - The goal of the FHA is to provide mortgage insurance on loans that are made by FHA-approved third-party lenders through the United States and its territories. In addition, the FHA also intends to insure mortgages on single family and multifamily homes.

3) Office of Public and Indian Housing - The programs constituted under the Office of Public and Indian Housing is geared towards ensuring the development of safe, decent and affordable housing, the creation of opportunities for residents' economic independence, and finally, the assurance of the fiscal integrity of the all of the people who participated in the program.

4) Office of Sustainable Housing Communities - The programs under the Office of Sustainable Housing Communities are geared towards the creation of strong, sustainable communities by way of connecting housing opportunities to jobs, fostering local innovation and helping people build a clean energy economy.

The HUD offers a wide selection of programs and grants that are all geared towards the benefit of the American people. To read more about such programs, you can visit http://portal.hud.gov/portal/page/portal/HUD.

Grants From the Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Additional Resources

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Department of Agriculture: Technical Assistance and Training Grant
The Department of Agriculture has recently established the Technical Assistance and Training Grants program.

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National Endowment for the Humanities: National Digital Newspaper Program
The goal of the National Digital Newspaper Program is to crate a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between the years 1836 and 1922, from all of the States and its territories.

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Origin-Destination Database of Border Traffic Flows for Transportation Planning
The Federal Highway Administration has recently announced a cooperative agreement entitled, Origin-Destination Database of Border Traffic Flows for Transportation Planning, to support Ontario's Ministry of Transportation in conducting training workshops focused on data collection, and the process of understanding and maximizing the use of the data collected.

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Department of Agriculture: Value Added Producer Grants
The Value-Added Producer Grants program is geared towards helping the Independent Producers of Agricultural Commodities, Agriculture Producer Groups, Farmer and Rancher Cooperatives, and Majority-Controlled Producer-Based Business Ventures in developing techniques that would create marketing opportunities and establish business plans involving viable marketing opportunities that involve the production of bio-based products from agricultural commodities.

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