Boys & Girls Club programs threatened by Trump grant freeze serve thousands of families

'They're not data, they're real people' | Middletown saves summer camp program after federal funding paused

A summer camp program serving 100 disadvantaged children in Middletown will continue after the city stepped in with a $60,000 donation, keeping the program running through July 25.The Community Building Institute's (CBI) summer camp was set to end early when the U.S. Department of Education temporarily paused federal funds that support the program."We lost $600,000 in funding ... out of the $200,000 that we have per grant, we are allowed to hold…

Education Department funding freeze targets summer school and language programs that are lifelines for families

Arlington, VA (CNN) — Desperation crept into Sylvia’s voice as she rattled off all the ways her life would become more difficult if a free learning program that her son attends during the summer shuts its doors.

Trump funding freeze threatens programs that prepare thousands for jobs in Wisconsin

Reading Time: 7 minutes Click here to read highlights from the story The Trump administration has frozen $715 million in previously appropriated adult education funds nationwide, including $7 million in Wisconsin.  That’s left program staff scrambling to figure out how they’ll continue providing free services that prepare people for the workforce, such as helping people learn English and educating people in prisons and jails.  Education leade…

NE Ohio Boys & Girls Clubs face program cuts amid $6B federal funding freeze

CLEVELAND (WJW) – A dark cloud of uncertainty looms over the future of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America as a federal funding freeze threatens to impact more than 1.4 million children nationwide. “I’m in year 33 of Boys & Girls Club work, and I’ve never seen something like this,” said Allen Smith Jr., CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio. Port Clinton woman sentenced for Cleveland street takeovers Smith said he’s deeply concerne…

11,000 NC students could lose afterschool care after federal grant freeze

One Greensboro afterschool program says the money makes up 77% of its budget.

Maine part of lawsuit over after-school, summer program funding freeze

Congress set aside more than $6 billion for the programs to provide academic support, enrichment and child care to mostly low-income families, but President Donald Trump's administration recently froze the federal education grants.