{"id":56876,"date":"2001-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/96e66d19-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-03-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-03-27T00:00:00","slug":"96e66d29-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/96e66d29-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"US awards $266K for A. Samoa projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Eni Faleomavaega has received notification from the Administration for Native Americans office of the Department of Health and Human Services that &#8220;Native Resources Developer&#8221; and &#8220;Aquaculture Cooperative of American Samoa&#8221; have been awarded a combined total of $266,777 in federal grants.<\/p>\n<p>Awarded under the HHS Social and Economic Development Strategies program, the Native Resources Developer will receive $190,000 for the second phase of its Samoan Fishery Development Project while the Aquaculture Cooperative of American Samoa will receive $76,777 for its aquaculture project development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The SEDS grants are aimed at encouraging community and individual productivity through community development and to reduce dependency,&#8221; Congressman Faleomavaega explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a competitive financial assistance grants program that supports locally designed projects that address community needs and goals toward self-sufficiency,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am pleased to see that there is a growing number of our people that are taking advantage of these business development opportunities and are competing for these federal grants,&#8221; Faleomavaega continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I congratulate both the Native Resources Developer and the Aquaculture Cooperative of American Samoa for submitting successful proposals.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Eni Faleomavaega has received notification from the Administration for Native Americans office of the Department of Health and Human Services that &#8220;Native Resources Developer&#8221; and &#8220;Aquaculture Cooperative of American Samoa&#8221; have been awarded a combined total of $266,777 in federal grants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}