Grants
Archived article from Mar 6, 2006
Camden business incubator receives more than $500K in grants The New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology awarded a three-year, $390,000 grant to the Rutgers-Camden Technology Campus, allowing the economic development initiative to provide high-tech support and strategic counseling to help fledgling South Jersey businesses realize their growth potential. The business incubator also received a $125,000 grant from the Delaware River Port Authority to support its job development and outreach efforts. Launched in 2001, the Rutgers-Camden Technology Campus provides entrepreneurs with low-cost services and funding connections. The incubator has 47 clients and has graduated four businesses.
$357,000 grant to help explore nurse staff levels, patient outcome Linda Flynn, assistant professor at the College of Nursing in Newark, will study the impact of nurse staffing levels and work environment on patient outcomes. Using a $357,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as well as contributions from the New Jersey State Board of Nursing, a 14-page survey was sent to more than 52,000 New Jersey registered and licensed practical nurses asking them to rate their work environments. Flynn is part of a multistate collaborative effort involving similar research in Pennsylvania and California. The study’s focus is to determine how workplace factors influence job satisfaction and burnout among nurses.
Council of Humanities grant aids music festival The Mason Gross School of the Arts received a $7,500 grant from the New Jersey Council of Humanities to help fund a festival and symposium celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the birth of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. On the weekend of April 7 through April 9, international artists and scholars, along with Mason Gross students and faculty, will offer nine public concerts and four conference sessions dedicated to Shostakovich. The program is offered in collaboration with the Centre for Russian Music in Great Britain, the New Jersey Council of Humanities and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.
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