The KeyBank Foundation recently announced a grant of $15,000 to Rochester Prep High School, which will help the school prepare students for thriving futures. Rochester Prep High School, part of the Uncommon Schools charter school network, is dedicated to readying ...

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ROCHESTER (AP) — The city of Rochester has been awarded a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to purchase body cameras for its police department. The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Monday that the funding comes from the federal ...

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On the eve of the 21st anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act, Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-NY, announced $425,000 for Willow Domestic Violence Center, formerly known as Alternatives For Battered Women. The grant will be used for training and services ...

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A federal grant of slightly more than $1 million is being awarded to the Rochester Veterans Outreach Center to help local veterans with housing stability, prevent homelessness and provide mental health care and other vital services. The grant, through the ...

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Rochester neighborhoods received a boost recently when M&T Bank awarded NeighborWorks Rochester a $5,000 grant in support of homeownership education. NeighborWorks Rochester helped create 152 new homeowners last year through its NeighborWorks America certified homeownership education classes, representing more than ...

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The city of Rochester has received a $200,000 grant to support its efforts to investigate, clean up and revitalize brownfield sites. The grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency will be used for environmental site assessments of key brownfield ...

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A $6.5 million federal grant for Action For A Better Community, a Rochester community-based agency, has been announced by U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. Funding will support the Early Learning and Head Start programs which provide comprehensive child development programs for ...

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A $185,000 grant and $915,000 loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been approved for the town of Waterloo in Seneca County. Funding, as announced Wednesday by Sens. Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, will be used to create ...

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A National Institutes of Health grant of nearly $3 million has been awarded to the University of Rochester to study allergies and infectious diseases, specifically influenza. “The University of Rochester does amazing research on infectious diseases and I’m glad they ...

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A $1.1 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is being awarded to the University of Rochester to research HIV prevention in minority communities. It is part of the first round of funding for the university from ...

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The town of Brighton has been awarded a $1.3 million grant for the development of the Highland Crossing Trail, in collaboration with the city of Rochester. This grant is part of a statewide award of approximately $67 million for 63 ...

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A grant of more than $1 million has been awarded for Rochester’s Veterans Outreach Center, through the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program. The money will assist local veterans with housing stability, prevent veterans’ homelessness, and ...

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