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Fiscal Year 2010
 
At the bottom of this page you will find summaries of each funding requests I have submitted to the Appropriations Committee. In an effort for more openness and transparency, I am posting all the requests I am making to each subcommittee. I want the taxpayers to see that I am requesting use of their money in a good faith effort to improve the lives of all Americans through sound investment of federal funds.

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  • College's Continuing Education Department to offer re-training and professi
    CollegeofCreativestudies.doc | 24.0 KBs

    Federal funding will be used to expand the College's Continuing Education Department to offer re-training and professional development in creative fields, art and design certification courses and education camps for children and adults, serving 3,000 people annually.
  • Eastern Michigan University Urban Teacher and Leadership Preparation
    EMUurbanteacher.doc | 26.0 KBs

    School districts in and around the city of Detroit serve more than four million people in southern Michigan, one of the most economically depressed regions of the nation. Training high-quality teachers for the urban and hard-to-staff schools has emerged as a top priority for President Obama’s Administration. The EMU College of Education, K-12 districts, and community organizations will work collaboratively to strategically enhance the preparation of teachers for urban schools through recruitment and retention of highly qualified teachers in math, reading, and science. The proposal represents a four-strand approach to addressing the challenge of recruiting, training, and retaining teachers for urban schools.
  • Conservation of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Collection
    ConservationoftheDetroitInstituteofArts.doc | 28.0 KBs

    The mission of the Detroit Institute of Arts is: To create experiences that help each visitor find personal meaning in art.
  • Expanding Educational Youth Programs
    diayouthprograms.doc | 24.5 KBs

    The DIA currently delivers arts education activities to more than 60,000 students each year. The DIA makes a concerted effort to reach underserved populations and in many instances provides the only arts education a student receives. This funding will allow the DIA to continue to serve school children across Michigan and improve their overall learning experience.
  • Upgrade to Detroit Nursing Facility and Clinical Skills Training
    upgradetodetroitnursingfacility.doc | 25.0 KBs

    This project funds administrative and clinical skills training and expert consultation to upgrade Detroit nursing facility management and nursing capacities for the purpose of transforming these businesses to provide short term skilled rehabilitation services. Detroit nursing facilities (NFs) are closing at an alarming rate due to lack of financial viability and the skilled nursing expertise needed to keep pace with long term care transformations that are taking place in Michigan. There are significant health care needs for seniors living in Detroit and a lack of health care services to meet those needs. Assisting Detroit Nursing Facilities in upgrading management and overall clinical nursing skills retains health care funding, needed health services and jobs in Detroit. This project is designed to train an under trained, not employed and currently employed work force and helps Detroit help itself. Funding is needed to finance a one time infusion of expert training, mentoring, consultation and a performance measured project evaluation.
  • YouthVille Detroit
    YouthVilleDetroit.doc | 25.5 KBs

    The Detroit Youth Foundation doing business as YouthVille Detroit is an organization uniquely dedicated to helping adolescents realize their full potential and meet the challenges of the future.
  • Thinking Through Art: Outreach to Alzheimer’s Patients
    ThinkingThroughArt.doc | 26.0 KBs

    There are an estimated 5.2 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a fatal, degenerative disease that today has no cure. As the first wave of baby boomers will begin to turn age 65 — the age of greatest risk for developing Alzheimer's disease—it is estimated that 10 million boomers will develop Alzheimer’s in their lifetime. In Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties, the total Alzheimer’s population totals 71,596 individuals, and that number will grow.
  • Crescendo
    CrescendoInitiative.doc | 24.0 KBs

    The Crescendo Initiative will Establish a Community Music School in Detroit with four main objectives: 1) offer high quality, affordable music education to Detroit area low income children; 2) encourage youth to go to college; 3) attract MSU students to live and or work in the Detroit area; 4) build a pool of educated, young professionals who will attract more creative industries to Detroit.
  • Advanced Technological Education for Displaced Workers
    advancedtech.doc | 26.0 KBs

    The objective of the project is to provide intensive training and hands-on/experiential programs that prepare displaced workers from the automotive and related industries with basic skills, with the goal of achieving a permanent certification of industry competencies requisite to succeed in advanced manufacturing, technical, and multi-skilled/cross-trained work environments.
  • Working Together: Preparing the Displaced Worker for Employment in the New
    EMULHHSDisplacedworkers.doc | 26.0 KBs

    The State of Michigan has a dire need to retrain many of its workers who already have been or soon will be displaced due to the State’s economic dependency on the automotive and manufacturing industries and the current credit crisis. To address this need, Eastern Michigan University’s (EMU) Academic Affairs Office of Retention and Student Success and the College of Technology seek to expand an innovative and sustainable program to support the needs of displaced workers in Michigan.
  • Girl Scouts of Southeastern Michigan (GSSEM)
    GirlScoutsofSoutheasternMichigan.doc | 34.5 KBs

    Girl Scouts of Southeastern Michigan (GSSEM) is seeking support of our volunteer led troops/groups which provide leadership development activities for girls ages 5-17 throughout our council jurisdiction (Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Monroe, Lapeer, Genesee, Livingston, Sanilac and St. Clair Counties).
  • School Turn Around Project
    schoolturnaround.doc | 27.0 KBs

    The United Way School Turnaround Initiative will bring together community resources with proven school turnaround models to reduce dropout rates and increase test scores in failing high schools in the 14th Congressional District. The project combines tested and successful methods for school-based improvements with programs to link students to five essential wrap-around supports: caring adults (parents, mentors, tutors, or coaches); safe places with structured activities; adequate nutrition and health care; vocational training; and community service.
  • Cirriculum Improvements
    CurriculumImprovements.doc | 23.5 KBs

    Federal funding would be used to upgrade, update and create much needed curriculum aligned with educational materials needed for tours at the Museum as well as online resources for both students and teachers.
  • Latreese Nicole Fagan Memorial Scholarship Fund
    LatreeseNicoleFaganMemorialScholarshipFund.doc | 25.0 KBs

    The LNFMSF, Inc., recognizes the obstacles young adults with lupus as well as other students with disabilities face when trying to access higher education.
  • Development of Family Centered In-Home and Community Interventions for Pers
    EMULHHSAutism.doc | 25.0 KBs

    The Autism Collaborative Center at Eastern Michigan University is dedicated to training students and professionals to provide services to families with autism and believes that treatment is most effective when it is intensive and when delivered within the natural environments in which the autistic live their daily lives. EMU requests $1,200,000 to create an intensive, interdisciplinary intervention program that has the potential to significantly change the quality of life for families and individuals with autism. This program will provide multidimensional intervention in the contexts in which the problems occur so that real-life crises can be resolved or, even better, prevented.
  • Art of Leadership Program
    GreatlakescapitalfundsArtofleadership.doc | 34.0 KBs

    The ART of Leadership programs serve young people throughout Michigan and the Great Lakes region through intensive, multi-year mentoring and leadership training.
  • Michigan’s Urban Grocery Project
    Michiganurbangrocery.doc | 24.0 KBs

    Making the Case: Michigan’s Urban Grocery Project, is an essential component to the success of a larger initiative that brings together neighborhoods, local businesses, and community organizations to increase access to nutritious food sources and provide sustainable economic anchors for Detroit’s struggling neighborhoods. The high level study will address key issues related to market potential, operating and capital expenses, entrepreneurial training, cross-cultural relationship building, neighborhood vitality, and site identification and pre-development.
  • Expand Wayne State University’s College of Nursing
    wsunursing.doc | 26.5 KBs

    In order to step up to the challenge and train nurses to meet the growing demand, Wayne State University is seeking to expand its nursing education program. As noted in our budget, funding will be used to hire additional faculty, technical and advising staff to support the program, as well as to pay student stipends to encourage full time enrollment.
  • Covenant House Michigan Emergency Shelter
    CrisisCenterEmergencyShelter.doc | 23.5 KBs

    Covenant House Michigan is requesting funding to assist with the daily operations of the Crisis Center Emergency Shelter.
  • Cord Stem Cell Bank and Cord Blood Transplantation & Immunotherapy Program
    cordstemcellbank.doc | 24.0 KBs

    The JP McCarthy Cord Stem Cell Bank was established in 2001. The request will fund research and development of cord blood activated T cells (CBT) through expansion of the umbilical cord blood (UCB) collection program. CBT can boost or help the ability of cord blood stem cells (CBSC) to grow and re-establish the blood and immune systems (a process called engraftment) after high dose chemoradiotherapy and cord blood stem cell transplant (CBSCT).
  • Teach for America
    TeachforAmerica.doc | 24.0 KBs

    These teachers will reach an estimated 525,000 underserved students.
  • Special Olympics Project Unify
    SpecialOlympicsprojectUnify.doc | 29.0 KBs

    Funding through the Department of Education will be used to educate and inform US citizens, with a strong emphasis on youth, in ways that activate them to volunteer in support of our efforts to recruit more athletes and enhance dramatically the quality of the sports experience.
  • Residential Program for Mentally Ill Youth
    covenanthousementallyillyouth.doc | 26.5 KBs

    By separating mentally ill homeless youth from the general homeless population, staff will be able to better address the specific needs inherent in this population and teach them the life skills they need to live well despite the handicaps they face. CHM’s goal through this program/collaboration is to enable young people to manage their lives and live independently after the two-year program is complete.
  • WSU Child Advocacy Center
    childadvocacycenter.doc | 19.5 KBs

    This earmark will establish a state of the art, university-based, interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Center in the 14th Congressional District of Michigan to provide forensic interviewing and investigation as well as physical and mental health screening, assessment, referral, treatment, and research based procedures to help thousands of children and their families receiving child protective services or foster care. The proposed program will contribute to the safety, health, well-being and positive futures of infants, children, and adolescents who were victims of neglect, abuse, and/or molestation. By combining service, research, and training the program will both help heal children’s traumatic pasts and build better programs and solutions for the future through applied research and training of future generations of professionals better equipped to prevent and respond to child maltreatment in our communities.
  • Mental Illness and Addiction Treatment
    SHAR.doc | 25.0 KBs

    Treatment at SHAR for the dually diagnosed client provides intensive and individualized treatment services designed to address the specific needs of this special population. The treatment paradigm is modified with treatment goals that are relevant to both the client’s drug use and mental health status.
  • Project KEEP
    KEEP.doc | 24.0 KBs

    The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) of Michigan is the largest affiliate in the country, delivering more programs and services to those suffering with chronic kidney disease than any other NKF affiliate. Last year, the NKF of Michigan’s programs served more than 138,000 individuals, including those in: Allen Park, Dearborn, Detroit, Giralter, Grosse Ile, Hamtramck, Highland Park, Melvindale, Riverview, Southgate, and Trenton
  • Reading is Fundamental
    ReadingisFundamental.doc | 23.5 KBs

    The funding would be used for purposes authorized in Section 5451 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
  • The Oakwood Center for Nurse Clinical Education and Job Training
    oakwoodnurses.doc | 27.5 KBs

    The Center supports clinical and technological skill advancement for future and current nurses with education through sophisticated simulation technology providing clinicians and students opportunities to gain real life experience in a controlled setting. The Nurse Center is critical for specialized training to meet emergency care needs of a trauma hospital and offers state of the art simulation capabilities making it easier to train and hire a flexible and highly skilled clinical work force that will help fill the need for nurses.
  • City of Detroit Summer Youth Program
    summeryouth.doc | 25.5 KBs

    To provide youth with positive work experience, the city of Detroit seeks to establish a Summer Youth Services component to promote youth labor force readiness and development, academic enrichment, and life skills training during the summer months when public schools are not in session.
  • Reach Out and Read
    ReachOutandRead.doc | 23.5 KBs

    Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a national program that promotes literacy and language development in infants and young children, targeting disadvantage and poor children and families.
  • Highland Park - Digital Arts and Sciences Academy
    dasa.doc | 26.5 KBs

    Digital Arts and Sciences Academy, a diploma granting, four year high school program, combines traditional methods of instruction with cutting edge e-learning technology-based instruction. The mission of the program is to provide an interactive, media rich educational setting which supports a student-centered learning environment that serves a diverse student population. The program of instruction includes all state and national standards, in addition to academically accelerated programs that are concentrated in the areas of math, science, digital media and information technology.
  • Starr Commonwealth's Structured Therapeutic Living
    starrcommonwealth1.doc | 24.5 KBs

    Starr Commonwealth’s Structured Therapeutic Living (STL) program is a residential program that serves at-risk, learning disabled, mentally disabled and emotionally troubled youth and young adults between the ages of 15-21. STL provides these individuals with a 24-hour support system, educational and GED programs, life skills training, job placement assistance, housing assistance, life skills training, individual case management, mentoring, parenting training and counseling.
  • Woodward Ave Façade Improvement
    WoodwardAveFaçadeImprovement.doc | 23.5 KBs

    The program objectives are to improve the physical appearance of businesses and enhance the traditional downtown area in efforts to increase business foot traffic and generate economic development along Woodward Ave.
  • KidsTalk
    kidstalk.doc | 26.0 KBs

    The target population for KidsTALK is Wayne County children (twelve years of age and under) who are the alleged victims of sexual abuse. During the 2007-2008 year, KidsTALK conducted 420 forensic interviewing sessions with children throughout Wayne County. KidsTALK staff work collaboratively with CPS workers, law enforcement personnel and the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office to support alleged victims of child sexual abuse as they document their experience and seek to obtain justice.
  • Highland Park Neighborhood Revitalization
    HighlandParkNeighborhoodRevitalization.doc | 23.5 KBs

    Provide neighborhood stabilization and revitalization through demolition, acquisition and housing renovation.
  • McGregor Library Restoration
    McGregorLibraryRestoration.doc | 23.5 KBs

    The program objectives for the McGregor Library is to renovate and restore the McGregor Library to provide community services to the surrounding communities and neighborhoods and to enhance services that will generate community & economic growth and development.
  • Pedestrian Crosswalks
    PedestrianCrosswalks.doc | 24.0 KBs

    The installation will enhance safety of the pedestrians and fatal accidents; it would also assist greatly to the elderly persons.
  • Infrastructure Improvements
    InfrastructureImprovements.doc | 23.5 KBs

    The infrastructure improvements will provide funding to assist with development projects throughout the City of Detroit by allowing for its continuation.
  • Hackett Playground
    HackettPlayground.doc | 24.0 KBs

    The City of Detroit Recreation Department requests funding for upgrades to Hackett Playground.
  • Detroit Mobility First Service, Detroit, Michigan
    DetroitMobilityFirstService.doc | 25.5 KBs

    The Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) is requesting “start up” funding for its recently developed “one-stop” consolidation transit program to improve and expand service to Detroit’s elderly and low income residents call “Detroit Mobility 1st Service.”
  • Traffic Signal Upgrades
    TrafficSignalFeedUpgrades.doc | 24.0 KBs

    This project will replace old and undersized cables powering the downtown traffic signal network.
  • Frank & Poet Creek
    frankandpoetcreek.doc | 24.0 KBs

    Funding for this project would help restore creek habitat to a more natural appearance, improve the aquatic habitat for fish and macro invertebrates and create an educational environment to show case various restoration techniques.
  • Rehabilitate Taxiway A and East End Runway, Detroit, Michigan
    RehabilitateTaxiwayAandEastEndRunway.doc | 25.0 KBs

    Funding would also allow for mill and removal of pavement, lighting (as needed) and replacement in accordance with FAA design and construction standards.
  • Dredging Design
    dredgingdesign.doc | 24.0 KBs

    Hydrographic Survey & Sediment Analysis. This Project helps to establish a baseline from which we can determine costs associated with dredging project. A professional survey has not been performed over 60 years, subsequently historical pollution has accumulated. Once material makeup is establish, proper disposal can be determined. In addition, survey can assist in navigational, erosion, wildlife issues.
  • Calimera Park
    Calimerapark.doc | 23.5 KBs

    This project is for upgrades to a local park
  • Gibraltar Waterways Dredging Project - EPA
    gibraltardredgingepa.doc | 23.5 KBs

    Funding of this project would allow for dredging of historical pollution from the canal system.
  • Argonaut Project
    ArgonautProject.doc | 24.0 KBs

    Argonaut building will house an integrated educational community, focused on art and design and extending from middle school through graduate school and beyond into the professional realm.
  • Aerotropolis Telecommunications Portal and Logistics Center
    aero.doc | 25.0 KBs

    This project is a key component in transforming Michigan from a manufacturing to a high-technology based economy. It will provide an economic stimulus and create jobs by building on resources of airport and the Aerotropolis to attract high technology businesses to Michigan and incubate new business in emerging growth areas built around logistics and supply chain management.
  • Covenant House of Michigan
    CovenantHouseMichigan0.doc | 26.5 KBs

    Covenant House Michigan (CHM) is requesting funding to purchase and renovate, or to build an Education Building in Southwest Detroit.
  • Detroit Rescue Mission Culinary Expansion
    DetroitRescueMissionMinistriesCulinaryArtsProgram.doc | 24.0 KBs

    Funds will be used to convert a portion of a DRMM property in Highland Park into a high-end menu and self-supporting, ‘teaching restaurant’.
  • Detroit Rescue Mission
    DetroitRescueMissionMinistriesHousingforAgedOutYoungAdults.doc | 27.0 KBs

    The Detroit Rescue Mission is requesting $600,000 to convert part of a building owned by DRMM to house 30 young adults aging out of foster care.
  • University of Detroit Mercy Energy Efficient Chemistry Building Renovations
    detroitmercychemistrybuilding.doc | 24.5 KBs

    The Chemistry building that University of Detroit Mercy needs a major renovation to support innovative teaching methods with an advanced learning environment. Student demand for science programs is booming, fueled by interest in occupations related to health care, environmental issues, biotechnology, alternative fuels and materials development. The renovations will support innovative scientific education that uses “learning through discovery”– leading to a new generation of more capable and responsible scientists and medical professionals.
  • Building Surface Science Capacity to Serve the Automobile Industry in South
    surface.doc | 24.0 KBs

    The investment of $750,000 will greatly expand both the research capabilities of the Surface Science and Nano-Tribology Laboratory, Surface and Materials Science group, and Eastern Michigan University and their ability to create and evaluate new, environmentally friendly materials for the domestic automobile industry. This shovel-ready project will contribute to the economic well being of the region and the nation during and after its construction.
  • Special Olympics Expansion
    SpecialOlympicsGlobalExpansion00.doc | 24.5 KBs

    The $5,000,000 in this request will be used plan consists of new or expanded global initiatives designed to reach more people with intellectual disabilities, their families and their communities with the Special Olympics message of acceptance and hope.
  • Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
    CityofDetroitEmergencyOperationsCenter.doc | 25.0 KBs

    This project will establish a fixed and permanent Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
  • Biosurveillance Project
    biosurveillance1.doc | 23.5 KBs

    The hospital intends to use Tools4Medicine and ProcessProxy to benefit the VODI network, to not only improve quality for all of their patients on an ongoing basis, but also to provide health data to the State and Federal authorities that could serve as the critical first alert when monitoring for bioterrorism as well as pandemic outbreaks.
  • Waste Water to Energy Program
    wastewater.doc | 28.0 KBs

    The Waste Water to Energy project will utilize new sources of renewable energy for electrical power, reduce the environmental footprint of waste treatment facilities, increase energy source reliability, and improve operational readiness at both forward deployed and main bases.
  • Firearm Reduction Initiative
    FirearmReductionInitiative.doc | 25.0 KBs

    The mission of this initiative will be to allow personnel to increase visibility in targeted areas and respond to all fatal and non-fatal shootings, armed robberies, and carjackings within the Eastern and Northeastern Districts
  • City of Detroit CB Patrol
    PoliceNorthwestern.doc | 26.0 KBs

    Install, deploy Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) technology in 30 police cruisers. This technology will be installed in police vehicles assigned to Traffic Enforcement Unit (TEU) and the Tactical Mobile Unit (TMU). Both units are assigned to specific problems areas within the City of Detroit to address and reduce crime. Funding will provide equipment, software, installation and training for ALPR systems.
  • University of Detroit Mercy Software Assurance Education and Research Insti
    softwareassurance.doc | 27.5 KBs

    The Software Assurance Institute is organized on the Software Engineering Institute Model and aims to ensure that secure software practice is embedded in mainstream academic curricula. This is valuable because defects in the underlying software base imperil everything from small business to national defense. As such, it is critical to ensure that those defects are minimized.
  • NAVAIR Project for Land/Sea-Based Air Systems Maintenance and Air Worthines
    smartplugin0.doc | 26.5 KBs

    The NextEnergy Center will work with the National Automotive Center to develop and deploy Smart Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle (PHEV) technology in support of Defense Department (“DoD”) initiatives to reduce fuel consumption using vehicles with exportable high-quality electric power.
  • City of Detroit Infrastructure
    CityofDetroitinfrstructureprotectionhelicopters.doc | 26.0 KBs

    Purchase and equip two (2) infrastructure protection helicopters for use by the Detroit Police Department as a fuel-efficient means of patrolling large areas, including homes, schools, public transit facilities, and critical infrastructure sites, including the Detroit Wastewater Treatment Plant, which services approximately 4.5 million people throughout the Southeast Michigan area.
  • NAVAIR Project for Land/Sea-Based Air Systems Maintenance and Air Worthines
    navair.doc | 26.5 KBs

    Focus: HOPE is currently leading the Navy R4 Project (R4 = Repair + Restoration + Reconfiguration + Reconstruction) in partnership with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center at Keyport WA and NAVSEA in order to qualify several repair processes which the Project has developed using such advanced manufacturing technologies as laser-aided direct metal deposition (DMD) and friction stir processing (FSP). In this effort, Focus: HOPE has acquired state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment and initiated formal training in these advanced manufacturing processes. The individuals being trained are Focus: HOPE engineering degree program students and employees. The Focus: HOPE engineering degree students are primarily underserved minority men and women. Upon the completion of their specialized training and education at Focus: HOPE, provided in partnership with several area universities, these students will join a highly-skilled workforce as degreed engineers, available to both the Department of Defense and to relevant Michigan and national industries.
  • City of Detroit Prisoner Reentry
    CityofDetroitreentry0.doc | 25.5 KBs

    DWDD proposes to implement a Parolees, Technical Parole Violators, and Former Prisoners Project (PTPVFP) based on the belief that former prisoners who receive transitional jobs, career coaching and counseling services along with job placement and supportive services will be able to enter into and maintain unsubsidized employment.
  • Animal Cruelty Prosecution Training
    NationalTechnicalAssistanceInitiativefortheProsecutionofAnimalCrueltyandAnimalFightingCases.doc | 25.0 KBs

    The National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), in partnership with the Animal Welfare Institute and the Humane Society of the U.S., seeks funding to help implement a project to provide prosecutors across the country with training and technical assistance to improve the prosecution of animal cruelty and animal fighting crimes.
  • Phytophthora Research, MI
    PhytophthoraResearch.doc | 24.0 KBs

    Researchers at Michigan State University are leaders in the fight to control Phytophthora capsici, a fungal-like pathogen that lives in the soil and causes numerous plants to rot. Phytophthora management has been complicated by its longevity in soils (10 or more years), its ability to spread in water, its resistance to a key fungicides and lack of disease resistant varieties.
  • Wayne County Eastern Community Court
    WayneCountyProsecutingAttorneyEasternCommunityCourt.doc | 24.5 KBs

    This project will an alternative to the traditional sanctions and sentencing (e.g., probation, jail) for offenders committing “quality of life” misdemeanor offenses (e.g., disorderly conduct, malicious destruction of property, graffiti).
  • Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research (CPBR)
    CPBRRequestFormConyersINT.doc | 25.0 KBs

    The project’s innovations will develop “green” technologies that prevent or remediate hazardous wastes and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
  • Detroit Renaissance
    DetroitCreativeCorridorCenter.doc | 29.0 KBs

    The Detroit Creative Corridor Center will provide leadership for the creative community through outreach activities such as professional networking and business programs for creative businesses, associations and workers.
  • United Way for Southeastern Michigan Ex-Offender Entrepreneurship Program
    UnitedWayOffenderEntrepreneurshipInitiative.doc | 26.0 KBs

    Funding will be used to help ex-offenders become self-employed by providing training in small business management, building a business on the internet, marketing, credit education, sales and customer service.
  • Unitedway of Southeastern Michigan Wheelchair Ramp Initiative
    UnitedWayforSoutheasternMichiganWheelchairRampsProjec1.doc | 23.5 KBs

    United Way for Southeastern Michigan is seeking $400,000 to build wheelchair ramps in the homes of disabled individuals in the 14th Congressional District who cannot afford to pay for them. The requested funding will enable United Way’s volunteer corps to build 114 ramps at a cost of $3,500 per ramp, well below the retail cost of $6,000 to $10,000. The need and demand for wheelchair ramps remains in excess of United Way’s ability to deliver without this funding.
  • Detroit Public LIbrary
    DetroitPublicLibraryMainBuilding.doc | 25.0 KBs

    Federal funding will be used to provide for Main Building improvments to the roofing and walls.
  • Tuskegee Airmen Museum
    TuskegeeAirmenNationalHistoricalMuseumExpansion.doc | 23.5 KBs

    The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum, Inc. requests $6.5 million to redevelop bays 1 and 2 of the Coleman A. Young International Airport Executive Hangar to establish a museum and learning center.
  • Focus: Hope Renovations
    FocusHopeTransHUDHUD.doc | 28.0 KBs

    Focus: HOPE plans to use HUD/EDI monies to provide no more than 50% of its much-needed food program facility and infrastructure renovations.
  • SMART Intelligent Transit System
    FY2010SMARTIntelligentTransportationSystemWhitePaper.doc | 114.0 KBs

    The Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) is seeking $2 million in the FY 2010 Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill for Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) enhancements. These funds are needed to acquire and install an Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL)/Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system to improve passenger service and security. The new AVL/CAD system will monitor and track the fleet of SMART buses. Funding and installation of this ITS equipment will enable passengers to track the location of SMART buses on their hand-held PDA and mobile devices. Funding will also provide for digital voice announcers, the integration of destination signs, and the installation of security cameras, as well as automated passenger counters.
  • Restoration of the Detroit Central Farmers' Market
    THFCentralFarmersMarketReinstallation.doc | 27.5 KBs

    This project will provide a special platform for us to present inspiring educational programs focused on the importance of healthy and nutritious food choice and a vehicle for addressing the crises of adult and childhood obesity that plagues impoverished urban communities.
  • Grosse Ile Parkway
    GrossIleParkway.doc | 27.5 KBs

    Funding is requested to design and rehabilitate the Gross Ile Parkway and West Jefferson Roadways in the City of Trenton, Michigan including an extension of an insufficient right turn lane, traffic signal modernization and interconnection, drainage deficiency correction and pavement surface improvement.
  • EMU Riverside Arts Center
    EMUTheRiversideArtsCenterinYpsilanti.doc | 26.0 KBs

    The proposed upgrading of the theatre and necessary reconfiguration of the second-floor wings of the RAC for revenue-generating educational space, together with planned activities and programming, will create a hub of activities that respond to the demands of the young “Y Generation” workers who are part of the new economic sector, will elevate the perception of Ypsilanti and eastern Washtenaw County, and will attract new investors and businesses.
  • Detroit Institute of Arts
    DIAHistoricBuildingRoofRestoration.doc | 27.0 KBs

    The DIA requests support for the removal and replacement of the central section of the roof on the historic 1927 Cret building. At present, the roofing membrane, insulation, flashings and counter-flashings have all been compromised and require immediate action.
  • Detroit Economic Growth Corporation
    DetroitEconomicGrowthCorporation.doc | 29.5 KBs

    The project area is the Livernois Avenue right of way, from Eight Mile Road to the north to Interstate 96 to the south. Funding would be used to make streetscape improvements to increase public safety and make infrastructure and aesthetic improvements to the corridor, including road resurfacing, replacement of damaged concrete curbs, sidewalks, the installation of medians, for the safe movement of traffic and sidewalk and curb replacement, new street lighting installation.
  • Detroit Historical Society
    DetroitHistoricalSocietyCollectionsResourceCenter.doc | 25.0 KBs

    The Collections Resource Center (CRC) serves to preserve, protect, store and conserve a priceless collection of rare and historic artifacts that chronicle the history of Detroit and southeast Michigan.
  • Ecorse Creek
    WayneCounty.doc | 28.5 KBs

    Requested funds would complete Preconstruction Engineering and Design of alternatives for preventing recurrent, significant, and costly flooding of the North Branch of Ecorse Creek.
  • The United Way for Southeastern Michigan
    UWSM_FY10_EnergyBldg_ConyersForm.doc | 24.5 KBs

    Specifically, the program will: utilize expert consultants to complete energy audits for non-profits; provide 3 to 1 matching grants for larger facilities to implement major energy efficient improvements; and provide 1 to 1 matching grants for smaller facilities to implement low-cost energy efficient measures.
  • University of Detroit Mercy Chemistry Building
    FY10EWDOERequestfromtheUniversityofDetroit.doc | 32.0 KBs

    The Chemistry building that University of Detroit Mercy faculty and students call home was built in 1926. It now needs a major renovation to support innovative teaching methods with an advanced learning environment.
  • The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research, Inc. (CPBR)
    CPBRRequestFormConyersEWFY2010.doc | 25.5 KBs

    The project, Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research, will fund research and technology transfer for energy security and the renewable energy industry. Working with CPBR partner universities in Michigan, it will develop new and improved technologies that range from renewable energy, biofuels, and “green” chemicals to industrial manufacturing processes. CPBR will help build the agricultural and renewable energy industries and the workforce of the future that will reduce US dependence on foreign oil and create new, good-paying jobs in Michigan, the District and the nation.
  • Focus: Hope Commodity Supplemental Food Program
    CommoditySupplementalFoodProgram.doc | 24.0 KBs

    CSFP leverages the efforts and energy of tens of thousands of volunteers across America to deliver food packages that are designed to supplement the diets of low-income senior citizens, postpartum mothers, and children up to age six with nutrient-rich foods such as canned tuna fish, cereal and canned fruits and vegetables. While each package has a retail value of approximately $50, it only costs $23.01 to produce.
  • Wayne County prisoner Reentry
    WayneCountyPrisonerRe.doc | 24.5 KBs

    A minimum of 50 former prisoners will be provided transitional employment, case management and faith-based mentoring throughout the duration of the project.
  • Wayne County Environmental Enforcement Team
    WayneCountyEnvironmentalEnforcementTeam.doc | 24.0 KBs

    The Prosecutor's Environmental Enforcement Prosecution Team will work with the MDEQ and prosecute violators of our environmental laws.
  • Wayne County Prosecution Team
    WayneCountyCommunityProsecutionTeam.doc | 25.0 KBs

    The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office will establish a Community Prosecution Program to reduce violent crime in the city of Detroit.
  • Star Commonwealth
    StarrCommonwealth.doc | 26.0 KBs

    Starr’s Bridges to Responsible Adulthood (BTRA) program successfully prepares youth and teens for independent living and to become productive citizens.
  • National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
    NationalCouncilofJuvenileandFamilyCourtJudges2.doc | 25.0 KBs

    Funding will help support NCJFCJ in working to improve the child protection system to better respond to, and meet the needs of, the children and families they serve.
  • National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
    NationalCouncilofJuvenileandFamilyCourtJudges1.doc | 26.0 KBs

    The NCJFCJ Judicial Training, Research and Technical Assistance Project strives to improve system effectiveness and judicial decision-making for children and their families in cases involving juvenile delinquency and child abuse and neglect.
  • Focus: Hope Media Initiative
    FocusHOPEMediaInitiative.doc | 26.0 KBs

    This new Initiative, implemented within the successful Focus: HOPE youth development program, will provide low-income Detroit teens with professional training and mentorship in a variety of dynamic fields of creative media technology, delivered within an anti-violence curriculum and incorporating leadership development.
  • Onodi Tool & Eng.
    FY10REDSWhitePaper.doc | 38.5 KBs

    Major combat and stability operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are placing tremendous demands on Army equipment. Amid the constant demands of war, the equipment is aging far more rapidly than projected. Because of the higher operating tempo, rough desert environments, and limited maintenance available in theater, operational fleets are aging 4 years for every year in theater, dramatically shortening their expected useful life. Much of the equipment is of an older age, which only compounds the problem when obsolete parts are encountered in trying to repair these vehicles.
  • Kolene
    KoleneCorporation.doc | 25.0 KBs

    Light material content in ground-based combat vehicles is increasing at a rapid rate. To keep pace with anticipated RESET requirements for both current and future vehicle rotations, new and improved extreme cleaning methods must be developed for non-ferrous and non-metallic vehicle content.
  • EMU Anthrax Decontamination
    EMUReclamationProject.doc | 33.0 KBs

    This is a first-year proposal for $2.5 million through the Chemical and Biological Defense Program, Basic Research, Budget Activity 1, PE 06013848BP at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to address decontamination of anthrax (Bacillus anthracis (Sterne strain does not generate botulism)) and Clostridium difficile spores.
  • Wayne State Fair Housing Clinic
    WSUFairhousingclinic.doc | 29.5 KBs

    WSU will utilize federal funds to establish a Legal Clinic to involve Wayne State University Law School students in the investigation and adjudication of meritorious complaints of unlawful housing discrimination and mortgage lending practices in Metropolitan Detroit especially in the 14th Congressional District of Michigan and to work with the staff and attorneys of the Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit (FHC), one of the Nation’s outstanding fair housing/lending enforcement programs.
  • Wayne County First reponder Radio Upgrade
    WCFY10RadioInteroperabilityConyers.doc | 32.5 KBs

    Wayne County requests funding to upgrade and integrate all first responder communications throughout the county into one seamless wireless network with Michigan’s Public Safety Communications System (MPSCS) – the statewide 800 MHz Project 25 network operated by the State of Michigan. Wayne County and its local communities have independently implemented 800 MHz radio communications networks for public safety personnel. The proliferation of these networks, however, has decreased the level of interoperability and has often limited the effectiveness of mutual aid teams. This proposal is to continue Phase I of the plan giving first responders in Wayne County the highest level of interoperability (Level 6) in a crisis or mutual aid event.
  • Wanye County Regional Education Service Agency
    WayneRESAInternetSafetyPrograms.doc | 33.0 KBs

    The Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency (Wayne RESA) is partnering with Web Wise Kids (WWK) to implement Internet safety programs in schools serving students in grades 6 through 9 throughout Wayne County as funds permit. Teachers or library media specialists from 200 Wayne County schools will be trained to implement three WWK Internet and technology safety programs: 1) It’s Your Call, 2) CyberCops, and 3) the Wired With Wisdom parent program. The WWK approach works because it’s innovative and interactive.
  • Wayne County Juvenile Mentoring Program
    WayneCountyJuvenilementoringprogram.DOC | 33.5 KBs

    The Wayne County Juvenile Mentoring Program supports one-to-one mentoring projects for “at risk” youth in Wayne County, Michigan. Targeting both adjudicated and at-risk populations allows the program to provide interventions to youth exposed to high levels of risk in the family, home, community and social environments to a degree that may lead to educational failure, school truancy, substance abuse, gang activity or further involvement in juvenile delinquency.
  • Henry Ford Health System School-Based Violence Prevention
    ViolencePreventioninareaschools.doc | 29.5 KBs

    The Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) School-Based Violence Prevention program will engage in violence prevention, mentoring and peer education activities with students in area schools that currently serve as the site of a HFHS school-based clinic.
  • United Way Ex-Offender Assistance
    UWSMAssistexoffenderswithreintegration.doc | 25.0 KBs

    The United Way for South Eastern Michigan is requesting support to an ex-offender assistance program. This program will provide ex-offenders with the skills and services they need to be helpful members of society.
  • EMU DRIWR
    EMUWetlands.doc | 27.0 KBs

    Eastern Michigan University is undertaking a project to remove invasive plant species from Detroit River International Wildlife Reserve (DRIWR). The overall goals of this project are to: 1) create a digital library of spectral signatures for common invasive species, other vegetation, soils, and waters within the DRIWR, 2) develop and optimize tools for identifying and delineating invasive species from hyperspectral images, 3) discover ecological information relevant to control of invasive species within the DRIWR, 4) investigate best practices for controlling invasive species from the perspectives of maximizing ecosystem services and protecting water quality, and 5) provide timely, useful information to DRIWR staff to aid their management of the refuge
  • EMU Program to Prevent Repeat Youth Offenders
    EMUProgramtopreventrepeatyouthoffenders.doc | 45.0 KBs

    This is a summary of an appropriation request to give young adults who have been in justice a second chance.
  • Michigan Open House
    MichiganOpenHouseInvite.doc | 20.0 KBs

    This file has the details of an Open house for Michiganders at the Library of Congress