Working to Keep New Jersey Informed and Connected
Below are Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) requests that Senator Kim is fighting for under the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government in Fiscal Year 2026.
Project Name: Documenting America250 – Education Portal & Programming for the Foundations of Freedom in New Jersey
Project Location: New Jersey
Amount Requested: $1,200,000
Intended Recipient: Harriet Tubman Museum of Cape May
Description: This funding supports an educational web-based portal & app digitizing historical archives, photographs, portraits, maps, oral histories, and videos from sites across NJ to enhance teaching history. Designed by educators, the portal & mobile app will include curriculum guidance from the Museum.
Project Name: Renaissance: A New Jersey Small Business Financial Hub
Project Location: Bergen County, New Jersey
Amount Requested: $200,000
Intended Recipient: Renaissance Economic Development Corporation
Description: This funding will provide intensive counseling and educational services in multiple languages to help low-income & under-resourced NJ business owners who want to start and grow their enterprises. Programs will build lasting partnerships with clients at all stages of business operations.
Project Name: Entrepreneur Learning Hub at the Institute for Life Science Entrepreneurship
Project Location: Union, New Jersey
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Intended Recipient: Institute for Life Science Entrepeneurship
Description: This funding supports improvements to the Entrepreneur Learning Hub for the ILSE Entrepreneur Training Program at Kean University. The program optimizes startup growth with support, resources, services and aims to produce financially viable, successful firms in the field of life sciences.
Project Name: Voorhees Township Vital Records Organizational Project
Project Location: Voorhees, New Jersey
Amount Requested: $200,000
Intended Recipient: Township of Voorhees
Description: This funding supports the organization, destruction, & digitization of a multitude of records, some dating back 150 years. These records include documents from state, county, municipal & tribal government entities, as well as manuscripts, personal & family papers, and organizational archives.