ANDERSON - Madison County's local board for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program, chaired nationally by Federal Emergency Management Administration, or FEMA, has announced its funding awards for 2010. The local board was notified in January that it had $93,846 eligible to distribute for Phase 28 (2010) funding, and placed public notices in the media inviting any 501(c) 3 agencies to apply for part of this funding.

For funding requests to be eligible, they had to be for expansions of existing programs that currently provide emergency shelter or food to persons in need. Local agencies submitted eligible requests totaling $192,057.

The 2010 funded programs are as follows:

♦ Friends Feeding Families Food Pantry, First Friends Church, $4,000.

♦ Emergency Shelter for Women and Children, Alternatives Inc., $6,000.

♦ Shelter Meals, Christian Center, $6,500.

♦ Emergency Shelter Assistance Program, Food Pantry, Salvation Army, $46,000.

♦ Nutrition Assistance Program, Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana, $16,969.

♦ Emergency Shelter for Homeless Veterans, Stepping Stones, $5,000.

♦ Food Pantry Services, Operation Love, $3,500.

♦ Food Pantry, Park Place Church of God, $4,000.

♦ Fiscal Administration, United Way, $1,877.

The EFSP Local Board is chaired by Margaret Dodd of St. Vincent DePaul in Anderson. United Way of Madison County is the local fiscal agent for the program and local board convener. Local board members are representatives of constituencies and organizations as required by the national EFSP program, including Catholic Charities, a local Ministerial Association, a government agency, a homeless advocate, American Jewish Federation, United Way, Salvation Army and American Red Cross.