January 7, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
To provide shelter to homeless women and children: $25,000 to Access (Akron, Ohio)
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY
To save perishable foods and distribute them to charitable food programs: $50,000 to Feeding America (Chicago)
BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
To connect low-income people with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly named the Food Stamp Program: $1-million to Feeding America (Chicago)
BOEING COMPANY CHARITABLE TRUST
To help poor families become financially stable: $275,000 to the Orange County United Way (Irvine, Calif.)
DANIELS FUND
For a program that provides hotel vouchers and supportive services for homeless people: $150,000 to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (Denver)
FOOD LION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
To feed hungry children: $20,000 to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina (Winston-Salem)
HUMANA FOUNDATION
To feed hungry people in Atlanta and North Georgia: $100,000 to the Atlanta Community Food Bank
KOHL’S DEPARTMENT STORES
To feed 2,775 Milwaukee-area children each day: $225,000 to Hunger Task Force (Milwaukee)
LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
To bolster its emergency feeding network in Lake County, Ill.: $30,000 to the Northern Illinois Food Bank (St. Charles)
LEON LEVINE FOUNDATION
For a project to house chronically homeless people in Charlotte, N.C., in a new apartment building: $500,000 to the Urban Ministry Center (Charlotte)
VIRGINIA G. PIPER CHARITABLE TRUST
To help arts and cultural groups in California’s Maricopa County that are struggling financially: $1-million to bedivided among 37 organizations
SACRAMENTO REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
To meet basic human needs: $100,000 to be divided among 10 nonprofit organizations in the Sacramento area
—Compiled by Eugene McCormack
