Grants Made to Support Emergency Needs: a Sampling

ANNENBERG FOUNDATION For its efforts to provide donated produce to food banks throughout California: $35,000 to Ag Against Hunger (Salinas, Calif.)

DEACONESS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION To provide shelter, food, and support to newly homeless families: $41,000 to the Interfaith Hospitality Network (Shaker Heights, Ohio)

EL POMAR FOUNDATION To provide basic goods and services to people in need: $1-million to be divided among 25 nonprofit organizations in the Colorado Springs area

GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION To create a central database that will allow staff members at area homeless shelters to identify openings and make immediate referrals: $135,000 to 211/Impact (Milwaukee)

CONRAD N. HILTON FOUNDATION To provide permanent housing for disabled and mentally ill homeless people in Los Angeles: $240,000 to Public Counsel (Los Angeles)

KRESGE FOUNDATION For its capital campaign to renovate a meal-distribution facility and kitchen: $400,000 challenge grant to LifeCare Alliance (Columbus, Ohio).

JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T. MACARTHUR FOUNDATION To support nonprofit organizations that need more resources to serve the needs of Chicago-area residents who have been hit hardest by the economic crisis: $500,000 to the Chicago Community Foundation

MISSOURI FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH To provide services to homeless women in St. Louis: $100,000 to the Shalom House (St. Louis)

NORD FOUNDATION To feed hungry people: $55,000 to Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio (Lorain)

WACHOVIA WELLS FARGO FOUNDATION To feed hungry people: $50,000 to the Lowcountry Food Bank (North Charleston, S.C.)