Grants From the Department of Housing and Urban Development

by: TopGovernmentGrants Editorial Staff

The United States Government gives great importance to the development of strong and sustainable communities that are of very high quality, which will could be safely inhabited by the American people.

Over the years, the government has been successfully running regulatory programs, grants, and mortgages that are designed to aid the American people in procuring a house of that they can so willingly call their at own at a very reasonable cost.

It is very much essential for potential home-buyers to know that the government has constituted an independent agency that is specially intended for the purpose of assisting the American people in getting access to safe and affordable housing.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development, also known as HUD, is Cabinet department in the Executive branch of the United States government.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development was established in 1965 in an effort to create durable, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all.

In addition, the HUD also makes it its mission to strengthen the country's housing market by bolstering the economy and protecting actual and potential consumers by meeting the need for quality affordable homes, making use of housing as a platform for improving one's quality of life, and finally, building inclusive and sustainable communities that are free from discrimination.

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Minority Business Enterprise Centers for Minority-Owned Businesses
The The Minority Business Development Agency has recently constituted the Minority Business Enterprise Centers (MBEC) Program wherein it aims to support minority-owned businesses by providing them with electronic and one-on-one business development services for a reasonably nominal fee.

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Department of Housing and Urban Development's Dollar Homes Program
The Dollar Homes Program revolves around the process of selling single family homes for a superbly reasonable price of $1 (plus closing cost) to low-to-moderate income families, granted that these houses have been acquired through foreclosure by the Federal Housing Administration, and have already been actively marketed for at least six months and still remained unsold after that certain period of time.

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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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National Science Foundation announces the Cyberlearning: Transforming Education Program
The Cyberlearning: Transforming Education is a program wherein the NSF will provide funding for research proposals that aim to explore opportunities associated with the promotion and assessment of learning techniques through the help of new technologies, taking advantage of the application of those technologies, and the utilization of those technologies in the process of promoting deep and lasting learning of content, practices, skills, attitudes, and dispositions that are essential in becoming an engaged and productive citizen.

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