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Bridge House/Grace House |
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New Orleans,
Louisiana / $10,000 |
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Bridge House/ Grace House
provides long term residential
substance abuse treatment to men
and women, who are homeless,
indigent, uninsured and or
unemployed. These services are
offered in an atmosphere that
validates each resident as an
important member of our
community. While in treatment,
our residents work at our Thrift
Stores, our used car lot,
development office, building
maintenance and kitchen,
bringing in 44% of our revenue,
helping keep our doors open. |
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Food Bank of Northwest
Louisiana |
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Shreveport,
Louisiana / $15,000 |
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Formed in 1996, the Food Bank of
Northwest Louisiana, has doubled
the amount of food it collects
and distributes. The
organization has grown from 3
trucks and drivers to 7 vehicles
and 9 drivers. Food is given to
120 non-profit agencies, 80
churches, soup kitchens, 45
school groups, 54 rural
neighborhood sites, and 27
benevolent groups (fire
departments/councils on aging)
who actually feed the hungry in
person. |
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Food Bank Northeast
Louisiana |
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Monroe,
Louisiana / $15,000 |
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The objective of the
School Pantry Program is
to help alleviate child
hunger in Northeast
Louisiana through the
provision of food to
children and their
families at school.
School Pantries are
located on the grounds
of a school and are
intended to provide a
more readily accessible
source of food
assistance to low-income
children and their
families. Our School
Pantry sites are
consistently in the same
location on each
school’s campus, have
set distribution
schedules, and offer
ongoing food assistance
services. |
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Food Bank of Northwest
Louisiana |
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Second Harvest
Food Bank |
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New Orleans, Louisiana /
$15,000 |
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South Louisiana has some of the
highest rates of poverty, hunger
and diet-related illness in our
nation. Our Cooking Matters
Program is a six-week course
series that offers hands-on
cooking and nutrition education
classes to help low-income
mothers and children make
healthy and affordable eating
choices. At the end of each
class, participants receive
recipes that correspond to the
day’s lessons and a bag of
groceries so they can prepare
the recipes they learned in
their own homes. |
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St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church |
Fayetteville, Arkansas /
$30,000
(Discretionary Grant) |
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