Grants to Help Alleviate the Nation’s Financial Woes: a Sampling

Bank of America Charitable Foundation
To provide food to needy people: $1,000,000 to Feeding America (Chicago).

Boston foundation
To shelter more people during the winter: $25,000 to the Pine Street Inn (Boston).

California Community Foundation
To provide food and shelter to local residents: $600,000 to United Way of Greater Los Angeles.

Countrywide Financial Corporation
For efforts to prevent foreclosures: $1,000,000 to Homeownership Preservation Foundation (Minneapolis).

Dominion Foundation
For its efforts to feed hungry people: $100,000 to Central Virginia Food Bank (Richmond).

El Pomar Foundation
To provide food to soup kitchens, food banks, and food pantries throughout southern Colorado: $220,000 to Care and Share (Colorado Springs).

Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
To purchase food and distribute it to 400 hunger-relief charities in Central Indiana: $50,000 to Gleaners Food Bank (Indianapolis).

Ford Foundation
To take steps to prevent foreclosures and help those who have lost their homes, plus develop a neighborhood-revitalization strategy: $2,000,000 to the Detroit Economic Growth Association.

Foundation for the Carolinas
To provide food to hungry people: $100,000 to Loaves and Fishes (Charlotte, N.C.).

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
To develop a revolving food-purchase program, mobile food pantries, and a free shopping center for perishable food items that will serve more than 300 food banks in 17 counties across Western Washington: $900,000 to Food Lifeline (Shoreline, Wash.).

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
For its expanded emergency shelter: $76,000 to the Immaculate Conception Shelter and Housing Corporation (Hartford, Conn.).

Koret Foundation
To support Bay Area families and individuals who are struggling due to temporary job loss or home foreclosure: $1,000,000 to Jewish Family and Children’s Services (San Francisco).

Marin Community Foundation
To provide emergency services to families in crisis, including food vouchers, help with rent and utility bills, and car repairs: $50,000 to Adopt A Family of Marin (San Rafael, Calif.).

John R. Oishei Foundation
To provide food to hungry people: $125,000 to the Food Bank of Western New York (Buffalo).

Prudential Foundation
To provide services to homeless people between the ages of 16 and 21: $125,000 to the Covenant House (Newark, N.J.).

Rhode Island Foundation
For its efforts to feed hungry people: $167,000 to Rhode Island Community Food Bank (Providence).

Charles and Lynn Schusterman Foundation To offset the cost of utilities during 2009: $25,000 each to 15 nonprofit organizations in Tulsa, Okla.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation
To provide food to those in need: $300,000 to Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties (San Jose, Calif.)

TD Charitable Foundation
For its efforts to feed hungry people: $25,000 to the Food Bank for New York City.

Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club Foundation
To help low-income Ohioans pay their utility bills: $100,000 to the Ohio Department of Development, Home Energy Assistance Program (Columbus).

Windhover Foundation
To provide food to hungry people: $500,000 to the Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee

— Compiled by Eugene McCormack