SitemapYoungstown Business Incubator entrepreneur Patrick Gaughan has been accepted as a Fulbright Scholar at Hanoi Law University for next year’s spring term.
While in Vietnam, Gaughan plans to expand institutional relationships and continue his research in business and comparative law. His research includes extensive reliance upon computer data mining, fuzzy logic, and AI, all of which he continues to develop at the YBI. Gaughan joined the University of Akron School of Law in 2014 after 11 years at Youngstown State University. The Fulbright Program was established in 1946. It awards 8,000 grants annually, with 1,200 being U.S. scholars.
GRANT AWARDED: The Colony Youngstown, a community development organization, has received a $10,000 grant from the Cafaro Foundation to help the organization with start up associated with creating certification trainings for professionals and displaced workers. The money will also be used to help pay for the initial design costs for a green infrastructure project on Youngstown’s South Side.
DOMINION ENERGY GIVES MONEY: Dominion Energy has given $7,500 grants to Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership (TNP) and Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation (YNDC).
TNP of Warren received the money for its Building a Better Warren program, which provides training and on-the-job mentorship for residents while improving city neighborhoods.
YNDC will use the grant for its Clean Up Glenwood Avenue program, which is working to revitalize the neighborhood surrounding one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares. To read the full story from the Tribune Chronicle, click here.