The Charter One Bank's Charter One Foundation gave away six new grants under its Growing Communities program in support of local farmers and farmers' markets.
Some of the recipients are: The wife-husband team Melody and Lynn Nye with $3,000 to buy a cargo trailer; The Brinery received a $3,000 grant to help buy a vegetable processor; Fuhr's Valley View Fruit Farm in Imlay City will receive a $3,000 grant to help buy an automated donut-making machine and many others.
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Rivaayat is an initiative by Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi to revive various dying art form and solve innumerable problems faced by the artisans. Rivaayat began with reviving a 20,000-year-old art form of pottery that is a means of survival for 600 families residing in Uttam Nagar, Delhi.