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Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announced Monday he would dedicate $45,000 to work with several nonprofits to help Richmond families on Virginia's WIC program who are impacted by the nationwide baby formula shortage.
“I can not think of a greater emergency than the inability for families to feed their babies,” Stoney said Monday at a press conference held at Richmond City Hall.
The CDC has awarded a $6 million grant to two VCU researchers who will co-lead a project to decrease youth violence in Richmond.
‘Scraping the bottom of the barrel’: Richmond Childcare Funding Runs Low City officials discussed the need for more childcare funding during a meeting of the education committee on Thursday. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM) Richmond’s emergency childcare program may not make it through March unless the city can get its hands on more funding. The program was started with almost $3 million of CARES Act funding, but the latest stimulus bill did not give localities more for childcare. The first round of coronavirus relief funding came with an expiration date of Dec. 31, so in the case of Richm...