The state Department of Transportation's Illinois Transportation Enhancement Program administered the grant, which will cover costs of streetscape improvements including new lighting and median planting in planter boxes with an irrigation system.
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Programs that focus on promoting the effective functioning of government, public administration and public officials and support or provide services required for the effective functioning of society's infrastructure.
Programs that provide for the movement of goods and people from place to place including fixed-route mass transit services. Air Cargo; Air Freight; Air Traffic Control; Air Traffic Services; Air Transportation; Aircraft Rental Programs; Airline Terminals; Airports; Bus Shelter; Buses, Civil Air Patrol Programs; Commercial Flights; Commuter Flights; Commuter Rail; Ferry Boat Services; Pedestrian Shelters; Rail Transportation; Railroads; Railways; Rapid Transit Systems; Roadway Services; Trains; Urban Mass Transit
Programs that provide gas, electricity, water and sanitary services including hook-up of services and the installation, maintenance and repair of necessary equipment. Electric Generating Plants; Electric Power; Electrification; Energy Generating Resources; Fossil Fuels; Fuel; Gas & Oil; Light Companies; Natural Gas; Nuclear Energy; Propane; Public Utilities; Water & Sewer Services; Water Rights; Waterworks
One of the most significant challenges to social entrepreneurship and innovation is ensuring a diversity of approaches and participants in the movement. To truly deliver meaningful social change the leaders of the effort must share perspectives of the challenges faced by communities across the U.S. that can most appropriately come from members of those communities. Ashoka, through its All America initiative seeks to increase the diversity of social entrepreneurship practitioners.