Grants for Emergency Needs: a Sampling
November 12, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE
To alleviate the costs of a rising patient load: $20,000 to the Teton Free Clinic (Jackson, Wyo.)
BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION
To help 17 public libraries across the state offer new or improved services to help people looking for work and others affected by the economic downturn: $400,000 to the Washington State Library (Olympia)
KRESGE FOUNDATION
For operating support to organizations struggling with the economic crisis: $2,950,000 to be divided among 22 nonprofit organizations across the country
HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION
For programs that prevent home foreclosures and provide emergency relief such as paying utility bills: $90,000 over two years to Belair-Edison Neighborhoods (Baltimore)