Aiding Emergency Needs: a Sampling of New Grants

CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST
For the operations of 12 emergency homeless shelters in Chicago: $200,000 to the Inner Voice.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
For basic human needs: $455,000 to more than two dozen food banks, homeless shelters, meal programs, and other nonprofits that serve residents of the Washington area.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NEVADA
To provide food and shelter to needy people in the Reno, Nev., area: $46,000 to be divided among seven nonprofit organizations.

DANIELS FUND
For hunger relief in Wyoming: $75,000 to the Food Bank of the Rockies (Denver).

CONRAD N. HILTON FOUNDATION
For food and shelter services: $300,000 to the United Way of Greater Los Angeles.

KROGER COMPANY
To feed hungry people: approximately $20,000 in food to the Clinton County Community Action Food Bank (Wilmington, Ohio).

MCGREGOR FUND
To expand a program that redistributes food that would otherwise be thrown away: $250,000 to Forgotten Harvest (Oak Park, Mich.)

MEADOWS FOUNDATION
To hire staff members to expand services to homeless families: $50,000 to Family Promise of Bell County (Temple, Tex.).

MIDDLETOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
To feed hungry people: $26,000 to be divided among food pantries in Middletown and Franklin, Ohio.

NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST
To provide emergency counseling and financial assistance to prevent families from becoming homeless: $200,000 to Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City.

VIRGINIA G. PIPER CHARITABLE TRUST
To expand food services: $750,000 over four years to St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance (Phoenix).

ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
To provide health and human services and religious education: approximately $1,100,000 to 65 nonprofit organizations in the Denver area.

SMITH BARNEY
For efforts to prevent foreclosures: $50,000 to NeighborWorks America, Center for Foreclosure Solutions (Washington).