Earmark recipients in the S.587 appropriations bill:

Maine - $116,137,000 - 47 earmarks

- Sen. Susan Collins (R) - 24 earmarks - $65,735,000
- Sen. Angus King (I) - 2 earmarks - $3,782,000
- Co-sponsored - 21 earmarks - $46,620,000

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Earmark recipients in the S.587 appropriations bill:

West Virginia - $103,307,000 - 26 earmarks

- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R) - 11 earmarks - $56,026,000

- Sen. James Justice (R) - 1 earmark - $750,000

- Co-sponsored - 14 earmarks - $46,531,000

Refugee Family Child Care Microenterprise Development Grant - California (2022)

Awarding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services

Recipient: International Rescue Committee Inc (San Diego, CA)
Amount: $562,500

usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON… Refugee Family Child Care Microenterprise Development Grant - Oregon (2021)

Awarding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services

Recipient: The Immigrant And Refugee Community Organization (Portland, OR)
Amount: $562,500

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Overview of HHS Refugee/Entrant Assistance in Nebraska (🧵🧵🧵)

Prime award obligations total $137.8 million since 2011, with a drastic upward trajectory after 2020. Most HHS refugee entrant prime awards go to the Nebraska state government.

Other non-profits receiving prime awards include:

- International Council for Refugees & Immigrants
- Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska
- Midlands Latino CDC

Refugee Resettlement Funding - Georgia (2021-2025)

Recipient: Inspiritus, Inc. (Atlanta, GA)

Prime awards total: $31,222,996

Sub-awards total: $32,195,092

Thread of awards...🧵🧵🧵 Refugee Resettlement - Georgia (2025)

Awarding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services

Recipient: Inspiritus, Inc. (Atlanta, GA)

Amount: $2,448,456
Outlayed: $1,526,199

Purpose: GY 2025 ORR refugee cash and medical assistance

District: GA-05

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Refugee Resettlement - Georgia (2023)

Awarding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services

Recipient: Bethany Christian Services Of Georgia, Inc (Morrow, GA)

Amount: $1,049,247
Outlayed: $426,869

Purpose: Offering contextualized English and work skills training to 500 refugee newcomers concurrent with their employment in Athens GA

District: GA-05

usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON… Refugee Resettlement - Georgia (2025)

Sub-awardee: Bethany Christian Services Of Georgia, Inc (Morrow, GA)
Sub-award amount: $4,102,982
Subaward Description: Fy24 transitional foster care

Prime Awardee: Lutheran Immigration And Refugee Service Inc (Baltimore, MD)
Prime Award Amount: $76,133,560
Prime Award Description: residential (shelter and/or transitional foster care) services for unaccompanied children-licensed and Texas-exempt and Florida-delicensed only

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Refugee Resettlement Funding - Ohio (2021-2025)

Recipient: Community Refugee And Immigration Services Inc (Columbus, OH)

Prime awards total: $714624

Sub-awards total: $5,136,963

Thread of awards...🧵🧵🧵 Refugee Resettlement - Ohio (2024)

Sub-awardee: Community Refugee And Immigration Services Inc (Columbus, OH)
Sub-award amount: $993,957
Subaward Description: RHP CRIS

Prime Awardee: Ohio Department Of Job & Family Services (Columbus, OH)
Prime Award Amount: $13,837,571
Prime Award Description: GY2024 refugee support services and set asides

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HHS Refugee Resettlement Funding - Ohio (2021-2025)

Recipient: International Institute Of Akron, Inc (Akron, OH)

Sub-awards total: $10,350,193

Thread of awards...🧵🧵🧵 Refugee Resettlement - Ohio (2024)

Sub-awardee: International Institute Of Akron Inc (Akron, OH)
Sub-award amount: $2,764,795
Subaward Description: Refugee support services IIA

Prime Awardee: Ohio Department Of Job & Family Services (Columbus, OH)
Prime Award Amount: $42,185,744
Prime Award Description: GY2023 refugee support services and set asides

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Refugee Resettlement - Minnesota (2024)

Prime Awarding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Prime Award Amount: $20,916,564

Prime Awardee: Minnesota Department Of Human Services (Saint Paul, MN)
Prime Award Description: gy 2022 refugee support services and set asides

Sub-award amount: $178,500
Sub-awardee: Intercultural Mutual Assistance Association (Of Southeastern Minnesota), Inc. (Rochester, MN)
Subaward Description: Refugee social services

usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON… Refugee Resettlement - Minnesota (2024)

Prime Awarding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Prime Award Amount: $20,916,564

Prime Awardee: Minnesota Department Of Human Services (Saint Paul, MN)
Prime Award Description: gy 2022 refugee support services and set asides

Sub-award amount: $94,500
Sub-awardee: Intercultural Mutual Assistance Association (Of Southeastern Minnesota), Inc. (Rochester, MN)
Subaward Description: Refugee social services

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Refugee Resettlement - Minnesota (2025)

Prime Awarding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Prime Award Amount: $90,595,477

Prime Awardee: World Relief (Baltimore, MD)
Prime Award Description: world relief preferred communties intensive case management program for individuals and groups

Sub-award amount: $345,876
Sub-awardee: Arrive Ministries (Minneapolis, MN)
Subaward Description: Refugee and entrant assistance

usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON… Refugee Resettlement - Minnesota (2024)

Prime Awarding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Prime Award Amount: $90,595,477

Prime Awardee: World Relief (Baltimore, MD)
Prime Award Description: world relief preferred communties intensive case management program for individuals and groups

Sub-award amount: $74,789
Sub-awardee: Arrive Ministries (Minneapolis, MN)
Subaward Description: Refugee and entrant assistance

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Afghan Refugee Assistance - Subgrant (2024)

Prime Awarding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Prime Award Amount: $47,057,809

Prime Awardee: U.S. Committee For Refugees And Immigrants, Inc. (Arlington, VA)
Prime Award Description: GY2021 ORR refugee cash and medical assistance

Sub-award amount: $8,992,426
Sub-awardee: Harris County (Houston, TX)
Subaward Description: In response to the Afghan evacuation in August 2021, USCRI received funding by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement (HHS/ORR) to support operation allies welcome (OAW) by administering the off-site health benefits and the OAW behavioral and mental health programs at the safe havens (phase I) and the national convention center (phase II).

The off-site health benefits at safe havens program provided select medical and pharmacy benefits when the care needed exceeded the level of care provided at safe haven clinics (e.g., er visits, hospitalizations, specialty referrals).

Benefits terminated upon departure from the assigned safe haven. The OAW behavioral and mental health program was a trauma-informed behavioral and psychosocial program that provided culturally and linguistically appropriate services through individual, family, and group interventions.

As part of OAW, USCRI is also providing trauma informed behavioral and psychosocial support that is culturally and linguistically appropriate for the unaccompanied Afghan minors in ORR supported facilities as needed.

Additionally, the Afghanistan supplemental appropriation (ASA) 2022 provided ORR with specific appropriations to provide services to support newly arrived Afghans, including funding specifically for health. The goal of Afghan health promotion funding is to improve the health of newly arrived Afghans through outreach, education, and support services.

Activities focus on increasing health literacy, coordination of health care, and the organization of wellness groups. USCRI will administer these funds in the states of Texas and Missouri

usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON… Afghan Refugee Assistance - Subgrant (2023)

Prime Awarding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Prime Award Amount: $47,057,809

Prime Awardee: U.S. Committee For Refugees And Immigrants, Inc. (Arlington, VA)
Prime Award Description: GY2021 ORR refugee cash and medical assistance

Sub-award amount: $4,733,402
Sub-awardee: Harris County (Houston, TX)
Subaward Description: In response to the Afghan evacuation in August 2021, USCRI received funding by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement (HHS/ORR) to support Operation Allies Welcome (OAW) by administering the off-site health benefits and the OAW behavioral and mental health programs at the safe havens (phase I) and the national convention center (phase II).

The off-site health benefits at safe havens program provided select medical and pharmacy benefits when the care needed exceeded the level of care provided at safe haven clinics (e.g., er visits, hospitalizations, specialty referrals). Benefits terminated upon departure from the assigned safe haven.

The OAW behavioral and mental health program was a trauma-informed behavioral and psychosocial program that provided culturally and linguistically appropriate services through individual, family, and group interventions.

As part of OAW, USCRI is also providing trauma-informed behavioral and psychosocial support that is culturally and linguistically appropriate for the unaccompanied Afghan minors in ORR supported facilities as needed.

Additionally, the Afghanistan supplemental appropriation (ASA) 2022 provided ORR with specific appropriations to provide services to support newly arrived Afghans, including funding specifically for health.

The goal of Afghan health promotion funding is to improve the health of newly arrived Afghans through outreach, education, and support services. Activities focus on increasing health literacy, coordination of health care, and the organization of wellness groups. USCRI will administer these funds in the states of Texas and Missouri

usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON…

Refugee And Entrant Assistance - Washington (2023)

Prime Awardee: HIAS Inc (Silver Spring, MD)
Prime Award Amount: $123,204,398

Sub-awardee: Jewish Family Service Of Seattle (Seattle, WA)
Sub-award amount: $966,103

Purpose: Support eligible Afghan populations in achieving self-sufficiency through expanding Preferred Communities activities, including with long-term housing and other immediate needs, legal assistance, and intensive case management.

usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON… HHS - Refugee/Entrant Assistance (2023)

Prime Awardee: HIAS Inc (Silver Spring, MD)
Prime Award Amount: $123,204,398

Sub-awardee: Jewish Family Service Of Seattle (Seattle, WA)
Sub-award amount: $758,097

Purpose: Vjosa Tashi shall serve as the program manager for the Preferred Communities Afghan supplemental program at HIAS.

Ms. Tashi is responsible for programmatic oversight of the pc Afghan GAP services program, training and monitoring, and she will provide ongoing guidance and technical assistance to the agency.

Sarmaya Mustafayeva, director, social integration and Alicia Wrenn, vice President, resettlement and integration, shall oversee the pc Afghan gap services program at HIAS on an organizational level. The agency is responsible for, among other things:
- ensuring funds are provided or utilized only in support of Afghan clients in need who cannot access other resources.
- building organizational capacity to provide for any additional service coordination, case management or community linkages that may be needed while working with clients under this program.
- using direct client assistance to support clients, including medical bills, rent, winter clothing, utilities, funeral assistance, transportation costs, allowable legal fees, and/or other expressed client needs.
- maintaining communication with key stakeholders, including the state refugee coordinator and state refugee health coordinator and participating in state-convened local task forces.

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USAID contract (2023)
Recipient: Pm Consulting Group LLC

Amount: $651,706

Purpose: Provide services to USAID Ukraine under the BPA MENA contract, specifically to include pro communication specialist

Country: Ukraine

usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD… USAID contract (2023)
Recipient: PM Consulting Group LLC

Amount: $549,410

Purpose: ODG technical advisor(human rights) _ support to USAID Ukraine under the BPA MENA contract

Country: Ukraine

usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD…

In 2022, the US International Development Finance Corporation awarded a 10-year $50 million grant to Brazil-based private equity firm Aqua Capital.

Aqua Capital focuses on "sustainable agriculture" projects that advances UN Sustainable Development Goals

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In 2024, the US International Development Finance Corp awarded $47 million to the Brazilian National Bank for Economic and Social Development for "projects that contribute to a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation."

The Biden administration's Department of Agriculture has awarded over $12.7 million in contracts for "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" training and DEI-related initiatives.

This thread will list all contracts, recipients, and links to awards: In 2021, the Biden administration's USDA awarded $3,019,575 to Star Cypress Partners LLC for "Equity Commission contract support", with a potential $4.4 million total contract award. $10 million for USDA "racial equity commissions" was authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

NEW in RandoLand:

Complete breakdown of the debt limit compromise bill (Fiscal Responsibility Act).

EVERY rescission identified, as well as all major items scrapped from the Limit, Save, Grow Act.

randoland.us/bill_breakdown… Discretionary spending levels are set through 2029, and maintain high post-covid levels. randoland.us/bill_breakdown…

NEW in RandoLand:

Breakdown of the Inflation Reduction Act, the sweeping $740 billion reconciliation bill pushed through Congress on a party line vote randoland.us/bill_breakdown… The bill gives the IRS $79.6 billion in addition funding, with $45,6 billion slated for enforcement randoland.us/bill_breakdown…

🚨BREAKING IN RANDOLAND🚨

Breakdown: the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the gun control bill expected to pass in the wake of the Uvalde shooting

randoland.us/bill_breakdown… The bill includes $40 million for expansion of “Community Mental Health Services Demonstration Programs”

These demonstration programs were originally introduced by the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014.

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NEW in RandoLand:

Breakdown of the $40 billion Ukraine Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act randoland.us/bill_breakdown… The bill includes $54 million for the Centers for Disease Control randoland.us/bill_breakdown…

NEW on RandoLand:

Full breakdown of the 2022 Omnibus bill, 2700 pages and $1.5 trillion. randoland.us/bill_breakdown… The bill includes $250 million to offset the drop in fees collected by Agriculture and Quarantine Inspection Services during coronavirus randoland.us/bill_breakdown…