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Portage County, Ohio, funds by Health and Human Services, Department of

Listing $6,777,360.00 in stimulus funds from Health and Human Services, Department of for Portage

Note: For some programs where states do not report where money will be distributed across the state, we do not have the allocation for individual counties. Those programs include: Medicaid, unemployment benefits and food stamps. Those amounts are included in the totals for where the state agency receiving that money is located.

Amount refers to both the amount of stimulus funding going toward the project and the face value of the loan.

Recipient Amount Description Federal Dept./Agency Date
PORTAGE PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL $1,961,948 ARRA - Early Head Start Early Head Start Expansion (ARRA) Purpose: to provide Early Head Start services to 84 children in Portage County, Ohio. The Early Head Start program provides family-centered services for low-income families with very young children (pre-birth to 3) to pr Administration for Children and Families 11/30/2009
NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY $998,178 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This grant proposes to expand on practical aspects of stem cell therapies by determining which type of stem cell best promotes coronary collateral growth in the heart, the conditions in the heart that are conducive to promote collateral growth, and finall National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL, INC $474,571 ARRA - Community Services Block Grant This fund may be used for reduction of poverty, the revitalization of low-income communities, and the empowerment of low income families and individuals in rural and urban areas to become fully self-sufficient. The Award amount has reduced from $38,976,10
This spending item is part of a $38,857,606 allocation. See details
Administration for Children and Families 4/10/2009
NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY $462,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Nuclear receptors are ligand-activated transcription factors that play important regulatory roles in human and mammalian physiology. We are interested in understanding the role of nuclear receptors in controlling lipid homeostasis. Our long-term goal is t National Institutes of Health 4/19/2010
PORTAGE, COUNTY OF $450,000 ARRA Child Care and Development Block Grant $59,245,395 of the ARRA Discretionary funds will be spent during State Fiscal Year 2010 to stabilize the subsidized child care budget thus permitting the continuation of service to existing families. $5,620,429 of the ARRA Targeted Funds for Quality Exp
This spending item is part of a $68,140,840 allocation. See details
Administration for Children and Families 4/09/2009
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY $376,890 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The purpose of this award is to identify neural substrates on which vasopressin acts via the vasopressin 1b receptor to affect social behavior in an experimental animal model. Specifically, the proposed experiments have been designed to test the central h National Institutes of Health 5/07/2009
NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY $334,620 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This award provides additional funding for 5R01DC008120-05. This additional funding is provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). This award provides funds to develop tools to examine the coding of sound information in the National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY $262,396 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The prevalence of heavy alcohol consumption and associated problems is elevated among college students. Alcohol-related problems are multifaceted with a complex etiology. Alcohol problems are commonly organized into two related dimensions, abuse and depen
This spending item is part of a $1,089,229 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 6/08/2009
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY $221,176 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Three-dimensional shape and volume can be sensitive indicators of the physiological state of the cell, and are being extensively studied by biologists from very diverse fields. There are numerous publications relating cell shape to morphogenesis, cancer, National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY $217,570 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Despite significant advances in the study of oogenesis, there are major gaps in our understanding of how mammalian meiosis is regulated through protein interactions and signaling systems. Recently it has become clear that members of the 14-3-3 protein fam National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY $213,715 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support During sexual differentiation, an animal's body and brain develop toward a male or female pattern. According to a model established in rodents, this process is hypothesized to occur because of differential exposure to gonadal secretions. For example in ma National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
PORTAGE PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL $144,735 ARRA - Head Start Head Start Quality Improvement and Quality (ARRA) Purpose: Provide a COLA increase of 1.84% to all Head Start staff, add an Education Coordinator, and quality improvements to Head Start facilities and classrooms. Administration for Children and Families 6/02/2009
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY $108,339 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Remarkably little is known about factors related to parenting and child outcomes among Latina adolescent mothers. Understanding these factors is critical in light of the fact that the birth rate for Latino youth is substantially larger than that for any o National Institutes of Health 9/22/2009
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY $108,339 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Remarkably little is known about factors related to parenting and child outcomes among Latina adolescent mothers. Understanding these factors is critical in light of the fact that the birth rate for Latino youth is substantially larger than that for any o National Institutes of Health 9/22/2009
NORTHEASTERN OHIO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE $100,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The purpose of this award is to provide needed equipment to support NIH-funded research. The awarded equipment will advance the quality and pace of scientific discovery under the parent award. National Institutes of Health 9/24/2009
NORTHEASTERN OHIO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE $72,578 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The aims of the R21 grant (1R21EY018318-01A1) ?Real time imaging of the aqueous outflow pathway by two-photon endoscopy, are (1) to establish a two-photon endoscopic system to examine the aqueous outflow pathway and (2) to establish a procedure for two-ph National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
NORTHEASTERN OHIO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE $63,874 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students Awards given in the form of financial aid to medical students who have been identified as economically and/or environmentally disadvantaged. Health Resources and Services Administration 6/14/2010
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY $62,228 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The purpose of the requested supplement was to promote summer job creation for faculty from a non-research intensive institution. The administrative supplement was awarded to Dr. Mary Russell, a science educator at the Trumbull campus of Kent state Unive National Institutes of Health 6/01/2009
NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY $44,326 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The studies proposed are the reasonable extension of the specific aims 3 and 4 of parent grant (HL083237). The objective of studies is to develop a highly specific approach to establish the redox modification with protein S-glutathionylation and protein National Institutes of Health 4/12/2010
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY $37,605 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support In the specific aim 4 of our R15 award, RecQ helicase is used to test the unwinding capability of helicase on G quadruplexes. The RecQ helicase was selected based on the fact that the bacterial enzyme has been widely studied and can be easily purified. National Institutes of Health 7/13/2009
NORTHEASTERN OHIO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE $36,215 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students Awards given in the form of financial aid to medical students who have been identified as economically and/or environmentally disadvantaged. Health Resources and Services Administration 9/03/2009
NORTHEASTERN OHIO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE $26,057 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This grant provided summer research experiences for 2 undergraduate college students in health-related scientific research. National Institutes of Health 5/29/2009