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President Obama has established the $13 million i6 Challenge competition and put up $33 million in grants for the Jobs & Innovation Accelerator Challenge program. Teams taking part in the i6 challenge can win up to $7 million for ideas that can be developed into scalable “green” product and service offerings, creating more jobs and boosting our nation’s competitiveness. Urban and rural entrepreneurs can team up in “clusters” to win grant dollars through the Accelerator challenge for business ideas that will create jobs. (Source: U.S. Economic Development Administration)

In the News: Fewest Layoffs Since 2008; Congressman Calls Michelle Obama’s Posterior ‘Large’ and More

A few noteworthy headlines around the Web

See what’s going on in the world with today’s compilation of news around the Web

By Sade K. Muhammad

Posted: December 22, 2011 Tags: economy, In the News, Jim Sensenbrenner, Joel Naroff, layoffs, Let's Move campaign, Michelle Obama, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, president barack obama, Ron Paul, Rush Limbaugh

Go the non-profit route with ModestNeeds.com Founded in 2002 by Dr. Keith P. Taylor, Modest Needs offers three types of grants: back-to-work grants, independent living grants and self-sufficiency grants. The site offers 'flouting maximum grants' of up to $1000 or 7.5% of your documented, annual household income per family unit. “They provide bridge grants, basically to kind of get you through times like these,” says Kenneth L. Johnson, president of East Coast Executives (ECE). For more on unemployment benefits, read: Time’s Up: Extended Unemployment Benefits Expire So You’ve Been Fired…Now What

5 Ways To Maintain After Losing Unemployment Benefits

Here�s what you can do to stay afloat post-long-term unemployment benefits

Here are five ways to deal with the ending of extended unemployment benefits.

By Janel Martinez

Posted: December 9, 2010 Tags: How To, job loss, layoffs, unemployment, unemployment benefits

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs was fired by Andre Harrell as a 21-year-old exec at Uptown Records early in his career. Today, Combs has gone on to build a more than $300-million-dollar empire, with an expanding list of ventures under Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group: Sean John Clothing and Sean by Sean; a movie production company; his own Ciroc vodka; his own fragrance; reality TV shows; a solo music career, as well as his collaboration with artists Dirty Money; and an acting career, including a role in the Oscar-winning Monster's Ball.

So You’ve Been Fired… Now What?: 7 Celebrities Who Survived the Axe

These famous figures show there is light at the end of the termination tunnel

</a>Some may think getting the axe from a job is the end of the world.…

By Janell Hazelwood

Posted: December 2, 2010 Tags: Barack Obama, career advancement, celebrity, Desirée Rogers, entertainment, firing, job termination, jobs, Juan Williams, layoffs, Michael Vick, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Tavis Smiley, termination, Wendy Williams

Time’s Up: Extended Unemployment Benefits Expire

Federal extended unemployment benefits ended Nov. 30, threatening to leave the jobless without much needed resources

The Senate’s decision not to renew federal extended unemployment benefits became a reality when yesterday’s…

By Janel Martinez

Posted: December 2, 2010 Tags: Career, job seekers, joblessness, layoffs, U.S. Senate, unemployment, unemployment benefits

So You’ve Been Fired… Now What?: The Accidental Entrepreneur

The CEO of My Golf Concierge LLC shares how he went from job seeker to accidental entrepreneur

Ty DeLavallade’s story is part of a larger trend, known to many as accidental entrepreneurship,…

By Janel Martinez

Posted: December 1, 2010 Tags: entrepreneurship, entreprenurs, golf industry, job loss, job seekers, layoffs, luxury travel, unemployment

7Alternative Holiday Jobs

Whether out of school or out of a job, here's how you can make extra cash during the holidays

Good tidings and cheer isn’t all that comes with the holiday season; a lot of…

By Arlice Nichole

Posted: November 30, 2010 Tags: Career, holidays, How To, Job Market, layoffs, Money, recession

So You’ve Been Fired… Now What?

6 steps to take immediately after getting the axe

Here are steps to take upon being terminated from employment, whether you were fired or…

By Janell Hazelwood

Posted: November 29, 2010 Tags: employment, human resources, job loss, job seekers, job seeking, jobs, labor resources, layoffs, termination, unemployment

Boastful or Blessed?

Handling the guilt of success during hard times

One person’s success can be another’s resentment. Psychologist gives advice on how to handle the…

By Kenrya Rankin Naasel

Posted: September 8, 2009 Tags: career advancement, jobs, layoffs

The Changing Roles of the Chief Diversity Officer

As diversity recruitment is threatened by record layoffs, CDOs must strive to be strategic partners

Many a chief diversity officer (CDO) finds themselves watching the dismantlement of succession planning models…

By Gregg Smith

Posted: July 16, 2009 Tags: chief diversity officer, corporate America, Diversity, human resources, layoffs

Rules of Engagement

These days, to gain an increase in �productivity and profitability, ? entrepreneurs must boost employee morale

“It was very difficult for me to fire people because we are like a family…

By Ayana Dixon

Posted: July 1, 2009 Tags: Business performance, furlough, hiring, human resources, layoffs