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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.

View the official Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) disclosure letter and a breakdown of the funding requests.

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.

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.

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.

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.