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    Gov awards $1.5 million to US groups

    By Noreen Bowden | October 2, 2008

    The Department of Foreign Affairs has announced its funding for sixteen emigrant service organisations in the US, totalling $1.5 million (1.03 million euro).

    Since the establishment of the Irish Abroad Unit in 2004, the Department of Foreign Affairs has allocated more than USD8 million to the Irish Community Centres and Organisations in the United States.

    The funding is as follows, divided by consular area.

    New York 771,000
    – Aisling Irish Centre 126,000
    – Emerald Isle Immigration Centre 196,000
    – New York Irish Centre 130,000
    – Project Irish Outreach 112,000
    – Irish Immigration and Pastoral Centre/Immigrant Support Services, Philadelphia 132,000
    – Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform 50,000
    – Commodore Barry 25,000

    Washington DC 166,000
    – Ocean City Irish Student Outreach 1,000
    – Irish Apostolate 22,000
    – Coalition of Irish Immigration Centers 68,000

    Boston 372,000
    – Irish Immigration Center, Boston 200,00
    – Irish Pastoral Centre, Boston 172,000

    San Francisco 159,500
    – Irish Immigration and Pastoral Centre (IIPC), San Francisco 130,000
    – Seattle Irish Immigration Support Group (SIISG) 2,500
    – Irish Outreach San Diego 27,000

    Chicago 125,000
    – Irish Immigrant Support, Chicago 110,00015,000

    Total 1,518,500

    Visit the Department of Foreign Affair’s Irish Abroad Unit.

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