Federal grant money is on its way to Louisville to help families struggling to pay for rent due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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The city of Dayton is one of 10 cities in the U.S. chosen for the Accelerator for America project. The city will receive technical support along with $50,000 in funding to help build up the infrastructure needed to administer a large-scale financial assistance program for residents hit hard by the coronavirus.
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The non-profit Accelerator for America will provide technical assistance and $50,000 in funding to help Salt Lake City stand up the infrastructure needed to successfully administer a financial assistance program for residents whose livelihoods have been hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The city of Dayton will receive $50,000 to help stand up the infrastructure needed to administer a large-scale financial assistance program for residents whose livelihoods have been hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Louisville is one of 10 cities chosen to receive a grant to assist people who have been hit hard financially by COVID-19. Accelerator for America will work with Louisville Metro Government’s Office for Resilience and Community Services to provide technical assistance and provide $50,000 to support financial assistance.
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Louisville will benefit from an Accelerator for America grant to help people who've taken financial blows during the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Greg Fischer's office announced Sunday evening. The $50,000 grant will add to the assistance provided through the One Louisville COVID-19 Response Fund, which provides financial relief to eligible people.
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Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winner John Legend will host a celebration of dads with "John Legend and Family: A Bigger Love Father’s Day," airing at 7 tonight on ABC. Part of tonight's TV special will be the announcement that the nonprofit Accelerator for America will provide technical assistance and $50,000 in funding to help Oklahoma City and other U.S. cities stand up the infrastructure needed to successfully administer a large-scale financial assistance program for residents whose livelihoods have been hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Dayton is one of ten communities getting financial assistance from a national non-profit to help those impacted by COVID-19. Springfield native, John Legend, announced it during his Father’s Day special Sunday night.
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Since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, my colleagues and I have chronicled the impact of the economic shutdown on small businesses in general and on small businesses owned by people of color in particular. This research has taken on new significance in recent weeks with the civil unrest following the horrific death of George Floyd and the intensified focus on police brutality and entrenched racial disparities in income, health and wealth.
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The changes that the coronavirus has wrought across the United States are reshaping our ideas about resiliency and recovery. In the public dialogue about how we can sustain and restore our local economies — especially for the marginalized communities and small businesses that have been hit hardest — the value of investing in public infrastructure continues to grow.
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As the clock ticks down for California’s Legislature to offer more help to undocumented immigrants and other families in need, communities across the state rush to get money in the pockets of vulnerable people so they can make ends meet during the pandemic.
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To overcome this pandemic, we must rethink our human behaviors under physical distancing guidelines. We must start to rebuild by utilizing technologies that connect everyone to everything, equally and equitably.
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But the magnitude of this crisis extends far beyond the realm of public health. The crisis has been exacerbated by a broken social contract. What we are seeing is the result of 40 years of persistent undermining of our safety net system.
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As our cities experience this uncanny, uncertain pause, there may also be a rare opportunity to reflect and rebuild. In a nation reeling from both a pandemic and the worsening economic downturn that’s followed, even trillions of dollars of government intervention and assistance may not be enough.
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Low-income residents of Los Angeles and those with incomes negatively impacted by the coronavirus pandemic will soon have another opportunity for financial relief through the City’s Angeleno Campaign..
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Low-income Los Angeles residents and those whose earnings have fallen during the coronavirus pandemic will be able to apply for prepaid debit cards beginning Tuesday. The program will provide debit cards with $700, $1,100 or $1,500 to residents with incomes below the federal poverty line prior to the Safer at Home orders or if they’ve fallen into “deeper hardship” from reduced work hours or income being cut by at least 50%, Mayor Eric Garcetti said Monday during his daily coronavirus briefing.
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was running out of time. It was mid-March, and the enormity of the coronavirus was beginning to take hold of his city. It was only a matter of days before LA would grind to a halt, leaving tens of thousands of Angelenos in financial peril. “For a lot of people, the difference between making it or not is one paycheck,” explains Rick Jacobs, head of the nonprofit Accelerator for America and a longtime policy adviser to the mayor. He and Garcetti needed to get money into the hands of LA’s most vulnerable citizens within the next couple of weeks. But how do you do that in a city of nearly 4 million people without putting more lives at risk?
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Los Angeles-based Accelerator for America, an organization offering policy solutions on economic development, will use the grant in conjunction with the city to address economic disparity, a release from the group said. The grant will go to two main projects. First, it will fund a FUSE Corps fellow in Kansas City who will create a strategic plan to increase economic mobility and inclusive development for Kansas Citians.
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Cincinnati has an ecosystem for nurturing, growing and capitalizing minority-owned businesses. Hear from Drexel’s Metro Finance Lab director on why it’s time to pay attention to that.
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“Pete has probably one of the most aggressive plans for black America,” says Mayor Hart of Waterloo, Iowa. Plus, he adds, he’d like to see someone in the White House who has the accountability of a local leader who runs into his or her constituents in the grocery store or local Walmart. “I believe we need a mayor’s approach.” They met at an Accelerator for America event in 2018 – two mayors of midsize Midwestern cities that had struggled with industrial decline and racial tension.
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