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Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program#Overview of the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) Retrieved from "https: ...
Gwendolyn Grant is an American activist. She is President and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City. [1] She became their first female CEO in 1995. [2]Grant has received numerous honors including the National Urban League's Whitney M. Young Leadership Award for Advancing Racial Equity and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Community Service Award.
The program, part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is funded by grants appropriated from the federal government. Weatherization funding peaked to over 500 million dollars in 2009 and by 2014 had decreased to about 300.
The National Urban League (NUL), formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan historic civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of economic and social justice for African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States. [1]
Gateway Greening's Civic Greening project, Urban Roots, was an annual beautification project for downtown St. Louis. Each year, Gateway Greening staff and volunteers came together with St. Louis Master Gardeners to brighten the downtown landscape with beautiful summer flowers at Kiener Plaza. This program has been suspended due to ongoing ...
HOPE VI is a program of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. It is intended to revitalize the most distressed public housing projects in the United States into mixed-income developments. [1] Its philosophy is largely based on New Urbanism and the concept of defensible space.
Weatherization is a set of measures and practices aimed at improving the energy efficiency of a building or home, primarily to reduce energy consumption and lower utility bills. The main goal of weatherization [9] is to make a structure more comfortable and cost-effective to live in, especially during extreme weather conditions. It involves ...
After the American Civil War, St. Louis continued to grow into a major manufacturing center due to its access to rail and water transportation. By the 1890s, St. Louis was the 4th-largest city in the United States. In 1904, St. Louis hosted the world's fair in Forest Park and the Olympics at Washington University's Francis Field. More than 20 ...