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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . HUD Releases Report: Ending Veteran Homelessness in New Orleans: Lessons from a City that Reached the National Goal a Year Early In June 2014, First Lady Michelle Obama launched the Mayors Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness by the end of 2015. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu was galvanized, and returned home filled with determination. He assembled a broad public-private partnership and enlisted these leaders in a committed and very public effort to achieve this ambitious goal – a full year early. Local leaders, as well as staff at all levels of community ...

Five clarifications on the Criteria and Benchmarks to ending Veteran homelessness Having trouble viewing this email? Click here December 17, 2015 Five Clarifications on the Criteria and Benchmarks for Ending Veteran Homelessness    Since we released the revised criteria for achieving the goal of ending Veteran homelessness, we've had the opportunity to help communities and stakeholders from around the country apply the criteria and benchmarks locally. USICH's Richard Cho, HUD's Ma...

***TIME SENSITIVE -- PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY*** APPLICATION DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2016 http://ddp.policyresearchinc.org The Disability Determination Process (DDP) Small Grant Program awards $10,000 stipends for graduate-level research on improving disability determination processes. The DDP Small Grant Program is a one-year stipend program that allows graduate students, both full and part-time, to conduct supervised independent research on improving the efficiency and reducing the complexity of disability determination processes. Policy Research, Inc, (PRI) is pleased to announce the sixth round of this federally-funded stipend program. This program is directed by PRI of Delmar, NY, and is funded through a grant (#IDD11000001) from the Social Security Administration. We will be holding two informational conference calls titled “DDP Application Overview “on Thursday, January 28 th 2016 (ET) and Wednesday, February 3 rd 2016 (ET). All students in...

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