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For this reason, they intend to encourage middle school, high school, and community college students that engaging in the field of transportation can actually benefit them in the long run.
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Furthermore, the FHWA also seeks to promote career awareness and stimulate timely preparation. With this, they hope that the students in middle school, high school, and community colleges will realize that transportation-related careers are challenging and nonetheless rewarding.
In fact, they believe that can successfully pass on this message by using the electronic medium, such as social media and several other facets of the world wide web.
The Federal Highway Administration will enter into a cooperative agreement with eligible applicants and will award funds amounting to $200,000.
The institutions and organizations that will be permitted to submit an application under the Enhancing Awareness of Transportation and Transportation Careers Program are the following:
1) Higher Education Institutions such as Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education and Private Institutions of Higher Education
2) Hispanic-serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
The United States Department of Transportation, the primary agency that is funding the Enhancing Awareness of Transportation and Transportation Careers Program, is the country's leading agency that is consistently working towards the achievement of a fast, safe, efficient, accessible, and convenient transportation system that will contribute to the acquisition of a better way of life.
Enhancing Awareness of Transportation and Transportation Careers Program
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The HRSA administers health care grants to eligible individuals, in order to help them obtain safe and quality care through the Affordable Care Act Capital Development (Immediate Facility Improvements Program).
Pell Grants - Help with Financing Your Education
The Federal Pell Grant Program is overseen by the Department of Education and falls under the Federal Student Aid Information Center. In order to be eligible students must be enrolled in eligible schools that may be public or private nonprofit institutions of higher education.
What You Need To Know About Grants.Gov
Grants.gov is one the largest websites that features at least 1,000 grant programs from 26 different federal grant-making agencies in the United States.
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Benefits.gov has been consistently working towards offering hassle-free, improved and personalized service to the citizens of the United States in the process of finding programs and activities that would greatly benefit them and their families.
State Vital Statistics Improvement Program
In keeping with this mission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established the State Vital Statistics Improvement Program in an attempt to is to enhance the operational efficiencies of the state vital statistics programs and their ability to provide timely, high quality, and comparable data to the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS).
2012 Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance Programs Opportunity
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