WASHINGTON -- Beltrami County has been awarded a $27,637 grant from the federal Emergency Food and Shelter Program.
It is part of $2.3 million sent to Minnesota to support social service agencies in cities and counties across the state to help feed and shelter the hungry and homeless, U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., said in a statement announcing the grants.
In each funded jurisdiction, a local board advertises the availability of the funds, establishes local priorities, selects local non-profit and government agencies to receive supplemental funding, and monitors program compliance.
The EFS Program has been in existence since 1983 and was authorized under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987. With the fiscal 2008 allocation, more than $3.105 billion in federal aid will have been disbursed through the EFS Program since its inception to communities nationwide, and has accounted for millions of additional meals and nights of shelter to the hungry and homeless most in need across the nation, Coleman said.
EFS Program funds are used to supplement food, shelter, rent, mortgage and utility assistance programs for people with non-disaster related emergencies.
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Other area grants include $22,824 to Cass County, $9.189 to Clearwater County and $12,920 to Hubbard County.
