After the British were defeated in the Thirteen Colonies, its troops helped evacuate approximately 30, 000 United Empire Loyalists ( American Tories ), who settled in Nova Scotia, with land grants by the Crown as some compensation for their losses.

During the Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army ; after the war, Truth tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves.

" Large loans from the United States and Marshall Plan grants helped rebuild and modernize its infrastructure and business practices.

As the Cold War and the Space Race took hold, U-M became a major recipient of government grants for strategic research and helped to develop peacetime uses for nuclear energy.

Despite initially saying that a culvert would not be built, negotiation continued, and – helped by grants of £ 250, 000 from Gloucestershire County Council and £ 125, 000 from North Wilts Council – the Department of the Environment decided in 1997 that a culvert would be provided under the road.

Jayne Loader stated in an interview, “ Had we relied on grants, we would have starved " Pierce Rafferty helped to support the team and the film financially by working as a consultant and researcher on several other documentary films including El Salvador — Another Vietnam, With Babies and Banners, and The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter.

He also received a National Institute of Arts and Letters grant, a Rockefeller grant, and two National Endowment for the Arts grants, all of which helped him write his second novel.

Members of the research grants committee of the National Institute of Mental Health ( NIMH ), which had been founded in 1949, contend that they also helped provide an impetus for the new institute, as when reviewing grant applications they saw a significant number of neurological projects and proposed a separate institute for them.

Physical proximity also helped the three executives develop a strong sense of trust and respect, and they soon looked for other ways to collaborate, such as hiring a shared grant writer who brings in grants for all three organizations.

Tribeca suffered financially after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, but government grants and incentives helped the area rebound fairly quickly.

Brown helped established an AFL-CIO housing trust to build affordable housing and he worked to increase the city ’ s share of federal and state grants.

Further financial endowments from the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) and the Mutual Security Agency ( MSA ) allowed the construction of new facilities, while scholarship grants, mainly from the Rockefeller Foundation and the International Cooperation Administration, helped fund training of UPCA faculty.

The Stanford Industrial Park, together with the university's aggressive pursuit of government research grants, helped to spur the development of Silicon Valley.

These grants, in addition to the funds that the patented research generated, helped to catapult Stanford into the ranks of the world's first class educational institutions, as well as spurring the growth of Silicon Valley.

But state tuition grants given to children who opted out of public schools helped maintain racially segregated private schools for years.

* Fundação Oriente, Panjim-based Portuguese cultural body, which has helped some writers with small grants of a few thousand rupees.

The Kona / IMBA Freeride grants helped clubs throughout the US and Canada including: Rapid City, South Dakota ; Grand Junction, Colorado ; Hood River, Oregon ; Coquitlam, British Columbia ; St. Charles, Missouri ; Surrey, British Columbia ; Anderson, Indiana, and East Burke, Vermont.

She acquired funding for flood control measures in the Merrimack River basin, helped Camp Devens become Fort Devens, Massachusetts in 1931, and was responsible for many other jobs and grants in the state.

As of 2008, the Toronto dollar has helped to raise and donate over $ 110, 000 for local charities, and has given grants to at least 35 different organizations.

This helped prove to voters the National Party's independence from the Liberal Party and in cases such as when the Nationals supported Labor's policy on educational grants to public schools, helped to show the National Party's connection with core voter issues.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Corporation grants helped promote the concept of cooperative security among erstwhile adversaries and projects to build democratic institutions in the former Soviet Union and central Europe.

That year he also established a local economic stimulus plan by fast-tracking capital improvement projects, secured a Major League Soccer franchise, began work on the Oregon Sustainability Center established a free-bus-ride program designed to help low-income students more easily get to school, helped secure $ 2. 5 million in new grants designed to help the city reduce diesel emissions, renamed part of S. E.

Jewish religious practise has also been helped financially with grants from the Ronald Lauder Foundation.

The President, in a special message to Congress, tied in with his aged care plan requests for large federal grants to finance medical and dental scholarships, build 20 new medical and 20 new dental schools, and expand child health care and general medical research.

Apart from the aged care plan the President's most ambitious and costly proposals were for federal scholarships, and grants to build or enlarge medical and dental schools.

Beyond directly sponsoring educational initiatives, the Emirates Foundation for Philanthropy is funding major research initiatives into Emiratisation through competitive research grants, allowing universities such as United Arab Emirates University or Dubai School of Government to build and disseminate expertise on the topic.

Much of the limestone used in the construction of various Washington, D. C., monuments was quarried in the Bedford area, and Bedford received $ 500, 000 in grants from the federal government to build a ten-story replica of the Great Pyramid of Giza out of local limestone ; however, the work was never completed, despite a further $ 125, 000 being allocated to finish it.

A recent attempt to build a new library for the town to replace the current one has resulted in an electoral tie and is currently in appeal, despite already receiving $ 233, 232. 93 in personal pledges and grants to kickstart the effort.

Barnett also gives the text of a document from 1769 in the records of the Gilead Lutheran Church " When it had pleased the Almighty and Merciful God in His goodness to plant the Evangelical Lutheran Church in this American part of the world also, and especially in the State of New York, during the reign of Queen Anna, and also in this neighborhood and district called Hosek Road, in Rensselaerwyck, Albany County, then more than twenty years ago, a small body of adherents of the above said Lutheran church, disposed to that end did build and erect a prayer and church House to the Honor of God, and for their convenience, upon that lot of ground which our most worthy Patroon generously gave to promote and perpetuate the service of God and for the better maintenance of our preacher, for which purpose he presented us with a Deed of Gift which We acknowledge with heartfelt thanks towards our Good Lord in Heaven, and that in addition He grants us all hereabouts by His grace that we through the permission of the Government are allowed to carry on our pure Lutheran Church service free and without hindrance.

The stockade attracted squatters, surveying parties, and other settlers who had taken grants to live in the local cabins until they could build their own ; hence the little community became known as " Hole's Station ".

He became a professor and later the director of the Art Institute in Zagreb, and proceeded to build numerous internationally renowned works as well as many donated chapels and churches and grants to art students.

President Barack Obama has announced $ 2. 4 billion for electric vehicles ; $ 1. 5 billion in grants to U. S. based manufacturers to produce highly efficient batteries and their components ; up to $ 500 million in grants to U. S. based manufacturers to produce other components needed for electric vehicles, such as electric motors and other components ; and up to $ 400 million to demonstrate and evaluate Plug-In Hybrids and other electric infrastructure concepts — like truck stop charging station, electric rail, and training for technicians to build and repair electric vehicles ( greencollar jobs ).

The Church of England Schools had room for 200 children and cost £ 1050 to build, the money being raised by subscription and grants.

In 2007 alone, Eritrea walked away from more than $ 200 million in aid, including food from the United Nations, development loans from the World Bank and grants from international charities to build roads and deliver healthcare.

The Beach Bill grants a public access easement on the beach that cannot be taken away by the landowner nor can the landowner build on the beach.

The Northern Pacific Railroad was given land grants by the federal government so that it could borrow money to build its system.

He made extensive use of the act to secure federal and state land grants " as a basis of credit " to acquire land and build railroad networks through the Florida wilderness.

He considered that the £ 100, 000 paid to build St Eunan's College and the Cathedral of St. Eunan and St Columba in Letterkenny was too great a burden for its 2, 000 inhabitants, and found that the CDB head Bishop O ' Donnell had indirectly applied grants towards the buildings.

Additional grants, totalling £ 500, 000, were obtained from Sport England, UK Sport, the DCMS and SEEDA in order to build the lake's finish tower.

" Freedman argued that the laser would become a magnet for research grants from Federal and International agencies, and the Iowa legislature appropriated the $ 25 million necessary to build the center.

At that time it is recorded in a petition by the churchwardens and other parishioners of the parish of Crich that “ the hamlet of Tansley contains a population of upwards of 500 souls and is distant from the Parish Church ( of Crich ) of four miles and that it is extremely inconvenient for the inhabitants of the said hamlet to attend divine service in the said parish of Crich, and in order to provide some church accommodation and aid for spiritual wants of the people residing therein considerable funds have been raised by voluntary contributions together with other grants to build a chapel ”.

In June 1992, the county council was asked to prioritize between the Hardanger Bridge and the Triangle Link, as there would not be sufficient state grants to build both projects.

Planning of the airport link started in the 1980s, and in 1993 the Government of Sweden issued a tender for a public – private partnership ( PPP ) to build the Arlanda Line, the construction of which would be subsidized with partial state grants and large state loans.

The district also applied for in 1967 and later received state and federal grants to build and equip a broadcast facility for the new station.

They run a range of training programmes, provide mentoring support and offer financial grants to build the confidence and motivation of disadvantaged young people.