Robin Hood Announces $9.59 million in latest round of Hurricane Sandy Relief Grants; includes $5.275 million for housing support

NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Robin Hood's Hurricane Sandy Relief Committee met on January 18 and January 23, 2013, to review and approve the latest round of relief grants.  They awarded 71 organizations grants totaling more than $9.5 million, bringing the sum granted by Robin Hood thus far to $29.8 million to nearly 250 organizations in the tri-state area; this represents 44% of the Robin Hood Sandy Relief Fund. 

The majority of grants announced today ($5.275 million) were for housing-related programs designed to help individuals and families get back into their homes or to help them move into transitional housing.  This funding includes grants to several long-term recovery groups in New Jersey and Long Island. 

"Our aim is to get 95% of the money from the Robin Hood Relief Fund granted no later than March 31," said David Saltzman, executive director of Robin Hood.  "We will continue to do our best to get the money out the door as quickly and efficiently as possible."

The latest round of grants made by Robin Hood includes:

Housing ($5,275,000)

Atlantic City Long Term Recovery Group
Atlantic County, NJ
$150,000
Atlantic City is the poorest community in New Jersey that was hit by Hurricane Sandy. The Atlantic City LTRG is identifying the most vulnerable victims and coordinating distribution of aid by conducting door-to-door canvassing.  This grant will support housing and other essential needs of financially vulnerable Atlantic City residents impacted by the storm as well as case management services.

Bayonne Economic Opportunity Foundation
Hudson County, NJ
$100,000
BEOF is a community action partnership which offers programs for low income adults and families including Head Start, food pantries, rental assistance, Meals on Wheels, and other vital offerings.  Since Hurricane Sandy, the need for their services has skyrocketed.  This grant would go towards providing rental assistance and home repairs for their clients.

Bowery Residents Committee
New York City
Up to $150,000
BRC case workers are making great strides in helping those affected by Sandy recover from their losses. They have worked with hundreds of people who were displaced by the hurricane and being temporarily housed at hotels or YMCAs throughout the City. This grant will allow them to help clients achieve housing stability by paying for moving costs, security deposits, basic household supplies (bedding, furniture, kitchen supplies), and other necessities not covered by other disaster relief programs.

B.R.B.R. (Breezy Point, Rockaway Point, Broad Channel, Roxbury)
New York City
$25,000
B.R.B.R. has collected donations and redistributed them to families in need throughout four communities including Breezy Point, Rockaway Point, Broad Channel, and Roxbury.  This grant will enable them to provide $500 to 25 families to help them cover some expenses caused by the storm.

Broad Channel Athletic Club
New York City
$75,000
Out of 1,100 homes in the Broad Channel community, only 200 are currently occupied; the rest are in need of major repairs and renovation.  BCAC has created an application for residents to apply for emergency funding so they can repair their homes.  This grant will allow BCAC to provide cash assistance to residents so they can make the necessary repairs.

Carroll Gardens Association
New York City
$120,000
CGA owns and maintains 150 affordable housing units in Carroll Gardens, the Columbia Waterfront District, and Red Hook.  Eight of their properties (totaling 100 units) were damaged by Sandy.  This grant will support the total drywall replacement and mold remediation budget for these eight properties.

The Church of Grace and Peace/Jersey Shore United
Ocean County, NJ
Up to $500,000
The Church of Grace and Peace has created an organization called Jersey Shore United to coordinate volunteers with homeowners whose houses need repair as a result of Sandy.  Jersey Shore United will concentrate on the communities of Toms River, Brick, Lakewood, Lavallette and Seaside Heights which were heavily damaged.  They hope to rehabilitate 780 homes during 2013; this grant will be used to purchase needed appliances, mattresses, furniture, and other household necessities required for families as they rebuild.

Community Development Corporation of Long Island
Long Island
$60,000
Following Sandy, CDC Long Island was awarded a contract to operate the FEMA STEP program on behalf of Suffolk County, to provide temporary repairs allowing residents to return home while making more permanent repairs.  To date, they have overseen nearly 500 assessments and completed 130 repairs.  This grant will go toward the purchase of building equipment and cleaning supplies and will support a full-time case manager to provide case management for rebuilding, construction management, mold remediation, mortgage and insurance issues.

Disability Opportunity Fund
Long Island
$130,000
DOF is dedicated to providing housing opportunities for and advancing the needs of people with disabilities and their families.  This grant will allow them to provide technical assistance for people seeking disability-accessible housing and financial/legal support related to relocation.  In addition, DOF will use the Robin Hood grant to provide "gap financing" for 50-75 families with unmet needs.

Family Promise of Monmouth County
Monmouth County, NJ
$65,000
Founded in 2001, Family Promise provides homeless children and their families with food, shelter and other comprehensive services.  This grant will go towards providing clients with rental and security deposit assistance; gift cards for emergency needs such as food, clothing, gas/transportation; and case management services.

Family-to-Family
Tri-state area
$25,000
Family-to-Family is a grassroots hunger and poverty-relief organization that provides food and other necessities to poor families.  They connect "donor" families with families affected by Hurricane Sandy, with the donors providing the items needed by their "adopted" families.  This grant will allow Family-to-Family to expand their program by an additional 300 families by hiring part-time caseworkers to vet and match families, while providing an emergency relief fund that can be used for purchasing any outstanding items for affected families.

FriendsofRockaway.org
New York City
$50,000
In early January, Robin Hood awarded FOR a grant to "muck and gut" 400 homes in the Rockaways. This round of funding is in support of that original grant, and will cover costs associated with this work, including additional staff, transportation, and liability insurance.

Fuller Center Disaster Rebuilders and Fuller Center Jersey Pines
Atlantic County
$400,000
FCDR is an international faith-based organization dedicated to providing adequate shelter for people around the world.  FCDR will partner with the Fuller Center Jersey Pines to help rebuild 200 homes in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  This grant will cover salaries/benefits for four construction managers, and tools, vehicle fuel and other supplies related to construction.

Gerritsen Beach Fire Department
New York City
$25,000
Despite having eight feet of water in the firehouse, Gerritsen Beach Fire Department opened as a relief center providing refuge for residents and serving breakfast, lunch and dinner.  They also served as a distribution center for relief operations.  This grant will allow them to distribute gift cards for Home Depot or Key Food, allowing them to provide direct assistance to members of their community.

Global DIRT
City-wide
$400,000
Global DIRT (Disaster Immediate Response Team) uses its military training to create order and establish communications in a disaster.  To date, Global DIRT has played a part in the referral of thousands of residents for basic assistance:  temporary shelter, home nursing support, medication refills, debris removal, and coordinating volunteer help.  This grant will allow Global DIRT to continue its work across the city for the next six months.  Using the digital mapping and data management systems developed by Global DIRT, the team collects vast amounts of information about families and homes in affected areas and dispatches work orders to relevant government and non-profit agencies performing the actual services.

Healing Emergency Aid Response Team 9/11 (HEART 9/11)
New York City
$165,000
Since Sandy struck, HEART 9/11 has mobilized 1,000 volunteers to gut homes and remove mold in Long Island, the Rockaways, Broad Channel, Staten Island and Gerritsen Beach.  Moving forward, they plan to repair and rebuild 50 homes by installing insulation and sheet rock, starting with Gerritsen Beach, and focusing on homes belonging to the elderly and disabled, veterans, and single parents.  This grant will cover building materials, project coordinators, liability insurance, and travel expenses/food for volunteers.

Hope Force International
Atlantic County, NJ
$60,000
HFI is a disaster response non-profit that was founded in 2003.  Since November, they have been organizing volunteers to help residents repair their homes damaged by the storm.  This funding will help them retain two trained construction case managers who can coordinate mold remediation and reconstruction efforts for residents of Atlantic City.

Jackson Women of Today
Ocean County, NJ
$15,000
JWT runs a food pantry which regularly provides four days' worth of food to approximately 120 families.  This grant will allow them to supplement their food supply for six months, and also allow them to offer bedding and blankets to people who are living in homes damaged by the storm and still without heat.

Long Beach JCAP:  Jewish Community Assistance Program
Long Island
$150,000
JCAP was created post-Sandy to help people get back on their feet whose homes and livelihoods were impaired or who lost significant possessions as a result of the storm.  This grant will increase JCAP's current pool of funds and ensure that at least 15-20 additional households secure the essential cash they need for home repairs and related urgent expenses.

Long Island Long Term Recovery Group
Long Island
$1,000,000
This funding will go towards providing emergency financial assistance to meet the unmet needs of Long Island residents still dealing with the aftermath of the storm.  

Make the Road New York
NYC and Long Island
$150,000
Make the Road New York has partnered with Queens College (CUNY) to provide occupational health/safety training and personal protective equipment to day laborers working in clean-up and reconstruction following Hurricane Sandy.  This grant will fund the purchase of protective equipment including respirators, gloves, hard hats, boots, goggles, bodysuits, and will support the salary of a full-time trainer and part-time assistant who will train and distribute equipment to 500 day laborers over a 9-month period.

Mercy Home for Children
New York City
$25,000
Mercy Home for Children is a group home for 10 developmentally disabled adults in Red Hook; the Home suffered significant water damage, resulting in the relocation to makeshift housing for their residents.  This grant will go towards needed repairs that must be made in order to bring these 10 individuals back home.

Mission Liberia, Inc.
Essex County, NJ
$100,000
Mission Liberia is a multi-service church-based organization whose goals are to help disadvantaged people in the community move from dependency to self-sufficiency.  This grant will allow them to provide $70,000 in gift cards to home improvement stores, grocery stores, or home good stores to eligible households.  The remaining $30,000 will be used to stock up their pantry shelves and purchase toiletries and bedding items for their pantry customers.

Ocean City/New Jersey C.A.R.E.
Cape May County, NJ
$250,000
Ocean City/NJ C.A.R.E. was formed to provide community residents who were impacted by Hurricane Sandy with emergency food, clothing, shelter, home clean-up and repair, relocation, medicine/medical support and cash assistance.  This grant will enable them to continue to provide these services to hundreds of additional residents of limited financial means.

Our Holy Redeemer
Long Island
$50,000
Our Holy Redeemer is the largest church in Freeport, Long Island, a town severely impacted by Sandy.  Hundreds of families who have been impacted by the storm have asked the church for help.  This grant will allow Our Holy Redeemer to help families purchase furniture, household supplies, and other items to get them back into their homes, and to cover security deposits and/or first month's rent to help families move into new housing units.

Our House
Union County, NJ
$10,000
Founded in 1980, Our House is a private, not-for-profit that provides residential, employment and recreational services to individuals with developmental disabilities.  As a result of Sandy, six of their group homes suffered extensive damage.  This grant will go toward repairs and replacement furnishings for these six buildings.

St. Catharine of Siena Church
Ocean County, NJ
$10,000
Closed since Hurricane Sandy, St. Catharine of Siena Church has been in touch with parish families from Seaside Park, Seaside Heights, Lavallette and Ortley Beach who have been displaced.  This grant will allow them to continue providing gift cards for home improvement stores to help them with expenses related to the repair of their homes.

St. Clare Disaster Relief Fund
Staten Island
$50,000
St. Clare's parish set up a relief fund in the aftermath of Sandy to help eligible local residents apply for emergency funds.  This grant will go toward the fund, enabling St. Clare's to provide cash assistance to community members in need.

St. Francis de Sales Parish
New York City
$50,000
Located in the Belle Harbor section of the Rockaways, St. Francis de Sales established an emergency fund to provide cash assistance to individuals and families who were adversely affected by the storm.  The community suffered extensive damage, and this grant will go toward providing families and individuals with cash assistance.

St. Francis Community Center
Ocean County, NJ
$70,000
The St. Francis Community Center is located on Long Beach Island, and they offer a food pantry, counseling programs, homeless prevention services, and other vital programs.  St. Francis has identified 200 families who could use support and this grant will allow them to offer financial assistance to help families pay security deposits for rental apartments, gift cards for home improvement stores, and gift cards for the purchase of household goods, including furniture and mattresses.

St. Margaret Mary Sandy Disaster Relief Fund
Staten Island
$50,000
Located in Midland Beach, the St. Margaret Mary Sandy Disaster Relief Fund has partnered with local vendors to purchase supplies for families whose homes were damaged by the storm.  This grant will provide approximately 50 families with the appliances they need to move back into their homes.

St. Peter's University Hospital/St. Peter's Foundation
Middlesex County, NJ
$25,000
Located in New Brunswick, St. Peter's University Hospital is serving as an anchor for Sandy-relief work in the area.  Led by the hospital's VP of Facilities, 10 volunteers (electricians, plumbers and mechanics) have dedicated their weekends to responding to the housing needs of several elderly and low-income home owners in Ocean County, NJ.  This grant will allow the volunteers to purchase building materials and supplies for five additional homes.  Currently, these five homes are uninhabitable, but with this grant, these individuals should be able to move back into their homes by mid-April.

Sayreville Storm Relief Center
Middlesex County
$150,000
The Sayreville Storm Relief Center is a volunteer grassroots organization that works in conjunction with the municipality.  It offers assistance to residents who suffered flooding in their homes, and provides food, clothing, cleaning supplies, space heaters, and other relevant support.  This funding will go toward completing home repairs and replacing appliances due to storm flooding, as well as support for rental housing and the purchase of home and building supplies to be distributed to residents in need.

Sea Bright Rising
Monmouth County, NJ
$100,000
Sea Bright was one of the communities hardest hit by the storm.  Robin Hood previously gave Sea Bright Rising a $200,000 grant to make it possible for residents to return to their homes by paying utility bills, replacing appliances, paying security deposits, and providing case management for residents; this grant will allow them to expand these services to even more residents, allowing even more people to return home.

Shark River Hills Property Owners Association
Monmouth County, NJ
$100,000
Approximately 120 homes in this community suffered severe damage from Sandy.  Many in the community are retirees on fixed incomes without the resources to make the needed repairs.

This grant will allow SRHPOA to assist homeowners with the necessary repairs/rebuilding to get back into their homes. 

Shore Aid
Middlesex County, NJ
$25,000
Shore Aid was established to help low-income families who were displaced by Hurricane Sandy in several communities, including Old Bridge and South Amboy.  This grant will go toward home repairs and replacement furnishings for houses damaged in those towns.

Tri-City Peoples Corporation
Essex County, NJ
$35,000
Tri-City is a community development corporation with a small construction staff serving parts of Newark, Irvington, and East Orange.  Many of their clients are elderly homeowners whose residences sustained damage but did not render them uninhabitable.  Because these homeowners live on a low fixed income, they do not have the cash to fund the portion of repairs not covered by their insurance.  This grant will allow Tri-City to complete those repairs that hover near the threshold of their deductible.

21 Plus
Ocean County, NJ
$10,000
21 Plus is an Ocean County nonprofit that provides services to people with developmental disabilities.  As a result of Sandy, two of their clients, who had recently moved into an independent apartment, were displaced and lost all of their possessions.  This grant will re-establish them in a new apartment, providing them with all the necessary furnishings as well as medical supplies and pantry staples.

United Church of Praise International Ministries
Staten Island
$70,000
United Church of Praise International Ministries serves the North Shore communities of Staten Island.  This grant will allow them to provide direct assistance to displaced families helping with security deposits, first-month rental assistance, home repairs, as well as new furnishings and appliances.

Vision Long Island
Long Island
$65,000
This grant will allow Vision Long Island to fund the costs of materials and supplies required for the demolition, removal of debris, and rebuilding projects for 26 homes in Freeport, Lindenhurst and Mastic Beach.  Vision will work with Friends of Freeport (Freeport), Lindy Manpower (Lindenhurst) and Jubilee Resource Center (Mastic Beach) to manage volunteers, supply building materials, tools and protective equipment, and organize the overall demo and repair process.

Where to Turn
New York City
$30,000
Where to Turn provides an array of services to families on Staten Island.  This grant will enable them to purchase sheetrock and lumber for residents of limited financial means in their community, and will help Where to Turn enhance their website so they can connect more people and organizations with Sandy-relief services.

Young Families of Island Park Hurricane Relief
Long Island
$150,000
Founded to raise money for families of limited financial means affected by the storm, Island Park Hurricane Relief seeks to provide families who are still displaced or are vulnerably housed with $1,000 in aid.  This grant will provide 150 families with $1,000 in the form of gift cards, temporary housing payments, or payment towards reconstruction costs.

You Can NOT Be Replaced
Monmouth County, NJ
$35,000
Originally created in response to teen suicides in Manasquan, Sea Girt, and the surrounding communities, You Can NOT Be Replaced turned into an emergency distribution center following the storm.  They used small grants to help families replace critical items that were destroyed in the flooding, including washers, dryers, refrigerators, and mattresses.  This grant will allow them to continue to help five families per week replace these items so they can move back into their homes.

Education ($2,385,000)

Brookdale Community College Foundation
Monmouth County, NJ
$125,000
Approximately 3,000 students at BCC experienced substantial hardships as a result of Hurricane Sandy.  In order to help students stay on track and stay in school, BCCF will provide cash assistance to 250-300 of the neediest students, with cash awards ranging from $100 - $1,000.

Hispanic Brotherhood
Long Island
$100,000
Hispanic Brotherhood serves families on the south shore of Long Island, and since Sandy, they have been inundated with urgent requests for assistance.  This grant will enable Hispanic Brotherhood to add staff specializing in relief assistance, thereby helping 500 families, and will support their emergency fund which provides cash assistance for critical needs such as rent, utilities, food, and medicine.

Hoboken Department of Health and Human Services
Hudson County, NJ
$210,000
The Hoboken Multi-Service Center housed a number of community health programs that served low- to moderate-income families, and the building has been closed due to damage from the storm.   Funds from this grant will allow them to repair and refurnish classrooms and office space for Hoboken Day Care 100, which provides high quality day-care to 100 children, as well as to restore Hoboken Family Planning, which served 45 women per week, serving as the sole source of medical care for the majority of those women.

Hudson Milestones
Hudson County, NJ
$75,000
Hudson Milestones operates a wide variety of programs to assist developmentally disabled individuals of all ages.  They lost twelve of their transport vehicles in the storm, including four specially equipped school buses and eight specially equipped 12-passenger vans.  This funding will help defray the replacement costs (not covered by insurance) for some of these vehicles.

New Yorkers for Children (on behalf of the NYC Administration for Children's Services)
New York City
Up to $1.2 million
Hurricane Sandy dealt a heavy blow to the city's system of early care and education centers.  In all, 18 centers sustained major damage from the storm, most of them located in Coney Island and the Rockaways.  With this grant, six of the 18 centers will be able to reopen, allowing 600 children to return to pre-school, thus avoiding the loss of 8 months of pre-school education.

The YMCA
New York/New Jersey/Long Island
$500,000

• YMCA of Greater New York/$300,000
• New Jersey YMCA State Alliance/$150,000
• YMCA of Long Island/$50,000

The YMCA network has been central to Sandy recovery efforts, as they've provided housing, counseling, and other vital services to those without electricity, and childcare before/after school.  As people move back into their homes, the Ys will need to increase their day care and after-school programs for children.  This funding will support Y programs in the New York communities of Far Rockaway, Staten Island and Chinatown; on Long Island in Bay Shore, Patchogue and Huntington, and in New Jersey in Red Bank, Toms River and Perth Amboy.

Services for Children with Hidden Intelligence
Ocean County, NJ
$175,000
SCHI is a therapeutic and educational center designed to meet the needs of developmentally delayed, medically fragile, and/or socially and emotionally challenged children.  They also operate a network of group homes for children and adults.  Hurricane Sandy severely damaged three of these group homes; funding will go toward replacing wheelchair ramps, furnishings, appliances, and other vital supplies.

Benefits Counseling ($1,195,000)

Asian Americans for Equality
New York City
$100,000
AAFE serves as a housing, social service and community development organization and provides education, financial assistance and job training programs.  In the wake of Sandy, AAFE has been inundated with requests for assistance securing legal and financial advice, guidance navigating the FEMA process, and other inquiries.  This grant will help them launch operations in Coney Island, helping residents apply for unemployment and housing subsidies, FEMA registrations, SBA loan applications and other critical support services.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ocean County
Ocean County, NJ
$100,000
Nearly 25% of the families involved in Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ocean County were displaced after the storm, particularly those in Ocean City and Seaside Heights who are from predominantly low-income families.  Funding from this grant will allow BBBSOC to serve an additional 150 families, matching youngsters between the ages of 5 and 17 with mentors and connecting adults with social services (food, job training, legal assistance, medical care, child care, mental health counseling) in Atlantic, Burlington and Ocean Counties.  Funding will also be used to provide emergency cash for families to help them return to their homes. 

Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush
Brooklyn
$130,000
Serving Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach, Coney Island, Seagate Gerritsen Beach, Bergen Beach, Breezy Point, the Rockaways, Belle Harbor and Bayswater, COJO is helping 250 families relocate to temporary housing.  COJO will use this grant to expand staffing to provide continuity of care, help families access benefits and insurance (including FEMA) for which they are eligible, and ensure these families become stably housed.

FEGS
Long Island
$90,000
FEGS is part of the Long Term Recovery Committee that is coordinating case management services on Long Island.  This grant will help them fund additional case managers who can connect hundreds of families with benefits.

Intersect Funds
New Jersey
$50,000
Intersect Funds is a small business lender that addresses the needs of those businesses affected by Sandy but which may not qualify for Small Business Administration disaster loans, and has made well over 100 loans to NJ business thus far.  This grant will enable them to hire another disaster loan officer to cover Ocean and Monmouth Counties, and will contribute toward loan-loss reserves, enabling Intersect Funds to make over 50 new loans to small businesses.

Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island
Coney Island
$80,000
With their offices completely destroyed by the storm, JCCGCI has deployed their staff to various locations in the community.  This grant will allow them to acquire a trailer and staffing support in order to provide critical services, including disaster relief coordination, health insurance information counseling (provided in English and Russian to help seniors navigate changes in their health care coverage), mental health support, legal assistance, and other services.

La Fuerza Unida
New York City and Long Island
$100,000
Hurricane Sandy has exacerbated housing services – relating to insurance claims, foreclosure prevention, home repairs – in La Fuerza Unida's service area of Queens and Long Island.  This grant will allow La Fuerza Unida to provide emergency cash for home repairs and loan assistance, and will support the hiring of 1.5 case managers who can help 125 families negotiate insurance claims and mortgage modifications.

Lawyers Alliance for New York
New York City
$50,000
This grant will enable Lawyers Alliance for New York to support five neighborhood legal clinics in Sandy-affected areas, helping residents with legal matters relating to the storm; provide phone consultations on FEMA/insurance issues, employment matters, and other issues; provide 25 clients with pro bono support on Sandy-related legal issues.

Long Beach Latino Civic Association
Long Island
$60,000
LBLCA has served over 400 members of the Hispanic Community in Long Beach, providing food, clothing, hot meals and cleaning supplies to residents.  This grant will enable LBLCA to provide clients with cash assistance for household items (including furniture) and to help cover security deposits/first month's rent to move families into stable housing.  The funds will also cover a full-time caseworker who will provide needs assessment and case management.

Lutheran Social Services of New York
New York City
$50,000
Lutheran Social Services works with individuals to refer them to social services, such as medical/mental health providers, employment assistance and counseling.   This grant will cover the salaries for two additional case managers who can conduct outreach to Sandy victims in Coney Island and Uniondale.

New Jersey Community Capital
New Jersey
$50,000
NJCC's mission is to provide capital to at-risk communities in New Jersey.  This grant will support nearly $150,000 in lending, and will help at least six businesses continue their operations and keep people paid and employed.

Single Stop USA
New York City
$265,000 (see below list for breakdown of grant)
Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty
$60,000
Extension of their original grant

Legal Services NYC
$100,000
Extension of their original grant

Legal Aid Society
$55,000
To close the funding gap left by Robin Hood's original $120,000/six month grant to support mobile legal unit serving Sandy-affected communities

Project Hospitality
$50,000
Extension of their original grant

Volunteer Lawyers for Justice
New Jersey
$70,000
Based in Newark, VLJ is a state-wide pro bono program for New Jersey, providing tools, advice and pro bono representation to help the economically disadvantaged get fair and equal treatment within the legal system.  This grant will fund a full-time attorney who will provide clients with legal advice and representation on Sandy-related legal issues such as FEMA appeals, unemployment and other benefits, insurance and landlord/tenant disputes.

Mental Health ($585,000)

Achiezer Community Resource Center
Rockaway and Long Island
$200,000
Achiezer assists families contending with issues such as illness, death, family discord, mental health needs and financial crises, by providing medical and mental health professionals, rabbis, lay leaders and volunteers to help families through challenging times.  This grant will allow Achiezer to add one or two social workers and case managers to help families with their mental health, medical, insurance and financial needs caused by Sandy, as well as emergency cash assistance to families in need.

CPC Behavioral Health
Monmouth County, NJ
$140,000
CPC provides mental health services to residents of NJ.  Since Sandy, CPC has been working with individuals impacted by the storm by providing counseling and therapy services at its centers in Middleton, Freehold and Aberdeen.  This grant will support two licensed clinicians to provide standard therapy to individuals and families in Union Beach, Highlands, Keansburg and Sea Bright, helping an additional 1,200 individuals, including 300 children.

Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst
Brooklyn
$65,000
This grant will help immigrant families purchase furniture, household supplies and other essential items and help families make emergency home repairs.  In addition, the funds will help with moving costs, security deposits, and first month/last month rent to help families transition to more stable housing.

Preferred Behavioral Health of New Jersey
Ocean County, NJ
$180,000
PBHNJ provides outpatient therapy and emergency mental health services to residents of Northern Ocean County, NJ.  Since Sandy, they have been working to provide counseling and therapy services at its five counseling centers in Ocean County.  This grant will support two additional licensed clinicians to provide standard therapy to individuals and families in five Ocean County towns, and a part-time psychiatrist to provide additional services.

Food ($65,000)

Family Food Relief of New Jersey
Ocean County, NJ
$20,000
Located in Lakewood, NJ, and serving Ocean, Monmouth, Middlesex, Passaic and Camden counties, FFRNJ operates food pantry programs serving needy residents.  This grant will help FFRNJ replenish their supplies so they can continue helping their neighbors.

Museum of NJ Maritime History
Ocean County, NJ
$15,000
The Museum functions as a food pantry and soup kitchen for residents of Beach Haven on Long Beach Island, and also provides free medical supplies to low-income seniors and undocumented individuals.  Flooding from Hurricane Sandy destroyed the freezers and food stockpiles, and two local supermarkets remain closed, causing the demand for supplemental food assistance to increase dramatically.  This grant will help the Museum replace two commercial freezers storage racks, elevated platforms, and food supplies so they can continue serving needy members of their community.

New Alternatives for Children
New York City
$30,000
NAC serves a medically fragile, developmentally-disabled population of foster care children.  Historically, NAC has maintained an in-house food bank and has exhausted its supplies as a result of Sandy.  This grant will go toward the purchase of food and supplies, and will provide  ongoing emergency cash assistance for foster children and their families.

Employment ($60,000)

ARC of Monmouth County
Monmouth County, NJ
$60,000
ARC of Monmouth County serves 1,400 physically and developmentally disabled adults throughout Monmouth County.  Their Long Branch employment center—which provides vocational training—was devastated by Hurricane Sandy.  This grant will go toward making needed repairs and will help replace computer equipment and office furnishings which were destroyed.

Emergency Assistance ($25,000)

Foundation of the Friendly Sons of the Shillelagh
Ocean County, NJ
$25,000
The primary goal of the Foundation is to ensure that all citizens are afforded the opportunities for success and well-being.  They have been providing monetary grants to aid victims of Sandy in the Jersey Shore-area, and this funding will allow them to continue their work.

About the Robin Hood Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund
Founded in 1988, Robin Hood is New York's largest poverty-fighting organization, and has focused on finding, funding and creating programs and schools that generate meaningful results for families in New York's poorest neighborhoods.   The Robin Hood Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund has granted tens of millions of dollars to organizations throughout New York's tri-state region that help individuals and families recover from the devastating effects of the storm.  In addition, Robin Hood's board of directors pays all administrative, fundraising and evaluation costs, so 100% of your donation goes directly to organizations helping victims of Hurricane Sandy rebuild their lives.

For more information or to make a contribution to Robin Hood's Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund, visit www.robinhood.org/rhsandy.

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