Similarly, venture financing for innovations in digital health surpassed $4.1 billion last year, yet funding for businesses targeting Hispanics and underserved communities has been relatively non-existent (last week Vital Healthcare Capital announced a $30 million fund to help providers in underserved communities upgrade health services).
*Last week, the environmental commissioners of New York and Connecticut and the regional administrators of the United States Environmental Protection Agency committed Westchester, Connecticut and its Sound Shore communities to upgrading their sewage-treatment plants.
The installation of the permanent cadmium-lined channel reported here will not only boost the sample handling capabilities of NIRR-1 but will also provide useful data to the MNSR community for upgrading their reactors.
Fundasal could serve as a pass-through for an international development grant to support the implementation of major infrastructure improvements such as sewer treatment, reforestation of community edges, upgrading recreational facilities or resurfacing streets, all improvements that could already be in planning.
As more and more communities are upgraded, the kind of content we'll be seeing, whether on our PCs, our TVs or a combination of the two, will become very relevant, indeed.
It recommends that planners consider "green gentrification" — making community upgrades that increase property values but might then drive out lower-income individuals.
A further consideration is the impact of upgrading communities and area attractiveness on property prices and urban 'gentrification' (Doucet, 2009; Vigdor et al., 2002).
"We offer a product which the community can upgrade, change and use it as their own to further their own VR needs".
This paper investigates the microfinance component of a community-managed slum upgrading program – the Comprehensive Kampung Improvement Project (CKIP) in Surabaya, Indonesia.
ALAN POSNER East Lansing, Mich., Jan . 11 , 2012 Ms. Blackwell's solutions — upgrading community colleges and linking them to employers, opening up economic opportunities in poor neighborhoods, and developing good jobs — are praiseworthy.
