Grant Maker

Through late November, the Office of Transition Initiatives had awarded 436 grants worth $32 million to Iraqi ministries or nongovernmental organizations. Among the recipients:

National Government

Thirty-three grants, worth $4.1 million to help 19 Iraqi National Ministries resume operations in Baghdad and throughout Iraq.

National Basketball Arena

Three grants worth $290,000 to rehabilitate the basketball arena.

Association of Free Prisoners

Two grants worth $105,530 to former political prisoners for office equipment and computers to catalog abuses of Saddam Hussein's regime.