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Charities That Received Special Federal Appropriations

November 5, 1998 | Read Time: 2 minutes

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AIDS Healthcare Foundation (Los Angeles) $2-million for a residential treatment program
American Red Cross (Washington) up to $30-million for disaster relief
Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Atlanta) $40-million for crime-prevention programs in public-housing facilities
Canaan’s Community Development Corporation (Louisville, Ky.) $25,000 for the Village Learning Center after-school program
Children’s Health Fund (New York) $500,000 for a pediatric-health program in rural areas of several states
Community Legal Services (Philadelphia) $1-million for legal services for the poor
Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home (Boys Town, Neb.) $7.1-million to expand Boys Town of Washington
Federal City Council (Washington) $300,000 to study whether to build a National Museum of American Music
First Book (Washington) $2-million for literacy programs
Heckscher Museum of Art (Huntington, N.Y.) $1-million for incorporating arts in education curriculum; also $500,000 for construction and repairs
Historical Society of Washington, D.C $2-million to establish and operate a museum of the City of Washington at the Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square
King’s College (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) $1-million for “commercialization of pulverization technologies”
Louisville Central Community Center (Ky.) $25,000 for after-school programs
Moundsville Economic Development Council (W.Va.) $1-million to start a law-enforcement training center
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (Arlington, Va.) $8.1-million for Internet and other programs
National Easter Seal Society (Chicago) $600,000 for the Early Childhood Development Project for work in the Mississippi-Delta Region
National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington) $1-million for art education
NetDay (San Francisco) $1-million to assist schools in connecting elementary and secondary classrooms to the Internet
New York Hall of Science (Corona, N.Y.) $100,000 for after-school programs
North Central Community Services of Wausau (Wis.) $200,000 for services for people with mental and physical disabilities
Parents Anonymous (Claremont, Cal.)* $3-million for support of its programs
Project Return (New Orleans) $1-million to evaluate its programs for former prisoners
* Grant must be deemed “warranted” by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

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