Dillard University News
October 29, 2013
Dillard gets $243,000 grant to help public housing residents
Dillard Universityhttp://topics.nola.com/tag/hud/index.html has received $243,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development http://topics.nola.com/tag/hud/index.html to connect public housing residents with services they can use to improve their lives.
The grant will hire coordinators whose job will be to let people know about available services and opportunities. These people also will work with elderly and disabled people to help them maintain their independence.
This will allow Dillard to continue its commitment to the community, said Nick Harris, director of Dillard's Office of Community Relations. Harris is the principal investigator on the grant.
"It just seemed a natural progression for us to receive such a grant that will allow us to do more in helping to connect housing residents with more services and empower them to become economically self-sufficient," he said in a statement.
The Office of Community Relations used to be known as Dillard's Community Development Corp.
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