DSU receives $500K grant to provide COVID-19 support NCC businesses
Delaware News Desk
Delaware State University’s College of Business received a $500,000 New Castle County Innovative Grant to create a web-based COVID Recovery Lab to help businesses in Delaware’s northernmost region to navigate the current coronavirus environment.
Through an initiative entitled “Bounce Forward,” the COB will design and create a virtual platform that will be an online platform designed to serve as a springboard for businesses in New Castle County to not only “bounce back” return to normal operations from the negative impact of the COVID pandemic, but “bounce forward” as well.
Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Jackson State University, the historically Black educational institution in Mississippi, received a $420,000 grant from the CDC Foundation to develop a marketing campaign to reduce and prevent the disproportionate COVID-19 transmissions among African Americans ages 18 to 29 in Hinds, Madison, and Rankin counties. These three counties have experienced the highest rate of transmissions in Mississippi.
The College of Business at historically Black
Delaware State University received a $500,000 New Castle County Innovative Grant to create a web-based COVID Recovery Lab to help businesses in Delaware’s northernmost region recover from the pandemic. Michael Casson, dean of the College of Business, is the principal investigator of the grant.
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Delaware State University’s College of Business has received a $500,000 New Castle County Innovative Grant to create a web-based Covid Recovery Lab to help businesses in Delaware’s northernmost region to navigate the current Coronavirus environment.
Through an initiative entitled “Bounce Forward,” the COB will design and create an online platform designed to serve as a springboard for businesses in New Castle County to not only “bounce back” (return to normal operations) from the negative impact of the COVID pandemic, but “bounce forward” as well, a release stated.
The site will come with Covid-19 business information and best practices, as well as well as business and workforce training.