FIRST homebuyers are using boosted government grants to snap up properties – in one instance for just $41,000.

Having recently completed the purchase of LaSalle Bank, Bank of America Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Lewis is expected to be in Detroit today bearing gifts: $450,000 in grants from the bank’s charitable foundation for metro organizations and individuals.

Cleveland BioLabs cut its third-quarter losses by more than half because of Defense Department grants that the Buffalo-based life sciences company won earlier this year.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. & MIAMI—-The Alpha-1 Foundation announced today that it has awarded two new research grants for projects at the University of Florida and Brandeis University.

Five Newark area organizations including the University of Delaware were recently awarded state grants to help them develop or expand their recycling programs.

Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher has announced that 87 communities were awarded more than $21 million in homeless prevention grants from the Homeless Assistance Grant Program.

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Five Newark area organizations including the University of Delaware were recently awarded state grants to help them develop or expand their recycling programs.

State grants for recreational projects for Washington County communities totaling $964,000 were announced Friday.

Three local groups have received grants for environmental projects.Officials with SCA Tissue awarded the grants, totaling $7,500, to fund the three projects as a part of SCA’s commemoration of America Recycles Day, which was Saturday.

The following cities and counties will receive grants as part of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program.

Woods Charitable Fund Inc., a private grant-making foundation, announced grants to 12 groups totaling $211,500.

The prize patrol was out in full force Thursday morning, making surprise visits to Plano schools and awarding 56 grants totaling $66,000 to Plano ISD teachers.

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