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Federal 'stimulus' grant energizes Muskegon-area social service agencies, low ...

01.01.70

MUSKEGON — The Muskegon-Oceana Community Action Partnership's solar energy project gives a new meaning to “empowering” the poor.

MOCAP recently received a $3.2 million U.S. Department of Energy grant — federal “stimulus" funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — to provide renewable energy installations to Muskegon-area nonprofits serving low-income people.

Another 110 middle- and low-income homeowners in Muskegon and Oceana counties will receive similar active and passive solar energy devices. Installation of the devices by local contractors already is underway, with the project expected to be completed by March.

Three nonprofit service agencies — Every Woman's Place, West Michigan Therapy's Transitional Living Center and the men's and women's shelters of the Muskegon Rescue Mission — received the most federal energy funds.

“We look at this as a grant of an energy endowment to us,” said Kevin Newton, executive director of the Muskegon Rescue Mission. “We will reap the benefits of this for many years to come.

Source: Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com

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