{"id":180109,"date":"2026-03-30T21:11:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180109\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:11:45","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-homes-for-the-brave-awarded-thousands-in-federal-funding-for-veteran-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180109\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Homes for the Brave awarded thousands in federal funding for veteran programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bridgeport-based Homes for the Brave announced $120,000 in federal funding on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>That money will go toward the nonprofit&#8217;s workforce development and supportive services for veterans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will help us fund our vocational program which helps our veterans find employment opportunities, as well as training and educational opportunities for them to further their careers,&#8221; said Vince Santilli, CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/homesforthebrave.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Homes for the Brave.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Santilli says Sen. Richard Blumenthal was pivotal in securing the federal funds for Homes For The Brave.<\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal is the ranking member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bridgeport-based Homes for the Brave announced $120,000 in federal funding on Monday morning. That money will go toward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,4739,72779,9,24,63,52945,1979],"class_list":{"0":"post-180109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-federal-funding","12":"tag-homes-for-the-brave","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-richard-blumenthal","17":"tag-veterans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}