Grants Made to Support Emergency Needs: a Sampling
July 23, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
To buy equipment and distribute food: $25,000 to food pantries in Ohio’s Summit County
CHARTER ONE BANK
For its food-rescue program: $100,000 to the Greater Chicago Food Depository
CONRAD N. HILTON FOUNDATION
To provide permanent housing for disabled and mentally ill homeless people: $240,000 to Public Counsel (Los Angeles)
KRESGE FOUNDATION
To renovate a meal-distribution facility and kitchen: $400,000 to LifeCare Alliance (Columbus, Ohio)
METLIFE FOUNDATION
For efforts to feed hungry people: $35,000 to the Greater Boston Food Bank
MORGAN STANLEY
For a program to feed hungry children during the summer: $5,000,000 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Atlanta)
SEMPRA ENERGY FOUNDATION
For efforts to feed hungry people: $20,000 to the San Diego Food Bank
STARR INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
To provide food to needy people: $1,000,000 to the Fund for New York City Hunger Relief
WAL-MART
To feed hungry children over the weekend: $20,000 to South Carolina’s Aiken County School District
