Wayne County news briefs: Federal food program sending $2 million to service agencies
http://www.freep.com/article/20100110/NEWS02/1100526/1001/News/Wayne-County-news-briefs-Federal-food-program-sending-2-million-to-service-agencies
COMPILED FROM REPORTS BY CHRISTINA HALL AND GANNETT NEWSPAPERS
Public and private social service organizations are to receive more than $2 million in federal funds from the Emergency Food and Shelter Program to supplement and expand ongoing efforts to house and feed needy people.
Organizations in Oakland County are to receive nearly $1.1 million, and those in Macomb County are to receive $940,777, according to a news release from U.S. Rep. Sander Levin.
A local board, chaired by the United Way for Southeastern Michigan, will divide the allocation among the groups. They can use the money for mass shelter, mass feeding, food distribution through food pantries and food banks, one-month utility payments to prevent cutoffs and one-month rent or mortgage help to prevent eviction.
The United Way for Southeastern Michigan is accepting grant applications on behalf of the Macomb and Oakland Emergency Food and Shelter Program Local Boards.
A group must be a nonprofit or government agency, have the capacity to provide emergency food and/or shelter services, have at least one full-time, paid staff member and use the money to supplement and extend existing resources, not substitute or reimburse ongoing programs and services. Applications are due Wednesday.
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