| National Board Member Organizations |
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| American Red Cross Michael Kleiner |
Catholic Charities Msgr. Gregory Cox Mary Romero |
| City of Los Angeles Lisa Salazar Leland Holbrook |
County of Los Angeles Greg Robinson |
| The Salvation Army Pilar Buelna Janette Cortez |
Southern California Ecumenical Council Patricia O'Reilly Natalie Lambert |
| United Jewish Communities Vivian Sauer Karen Rosenthal |
United Way of Greater Los Angeles Maria Wiest Marguerite Womack |
| Other Member Organizations |
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| Center for the Pacific Asian Family Debra Suh Kam Lou-Lopez |
Chicana Service Action Center Sophia Esparza Alicia Reyes |
| Chrysalis Center Michael Graff-Weisner Wendi Pennington Neidy Portillo-Tseng |
First A.M.E. Church Marye Barnett Antoinette Nelson |
| Food Pantry LAX Alice Abram |
211 Los Angeles County Mary Sanders Laura Mejia |
| Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles Mark Casanova |
Labor Community Services Red Godfrey |
| League of California Cities Margaret Finley Anne Lansing |
Local Initiative Support Corporation Miguel Garcia |
| Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Clementina Verjan Steve Andryszewski Monica Guthrie-Davis |
Hunger Action Los Angeles Frank Tamborello |
| Project Angel Food Margaret Steele |
Public Council Elizabeth Bluestein Lucy Fitzpatrick Leora Freedman |
| Shelter Partnership Ruth Schwartz Dhakshika Wickrema |
Southern California Indian Center Edie Melendez-White Travis Prater |
The
Emergency Food and Shelter National Board mandates that Local Boards
must set funding priorities annually prior to the selection of agencies
for funding. The Los Angeles Local Boards looked at resources available
in the community, the emergency food and shelter needs of the community,
gaps in services in the community and focus the dollars to address
these needs in the areas of emergency food and shelter. The following
populations are priorities for the Los Angeles Local Board:
1. Chronically Homeless: an unaccompanied homeless individual with a disabling condition who has either been continuously homeless for a year or more or has had at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years
2. Veterans
3. Families: minor
parents with child(ren): one or more adults with legal custody of minor
child(ren); a couple in which one person is pregnant; grandparents or
others who are legal guardians with child(ren) present;
multi-generational families with grandparents, parents (adult child) and
minor child(ren). Programs proposing to serve families must have
provisions for accommodating the child(ren) regardless of age or gender.
Programs that serve women and/or women with child(ren), but will not
serve two parent families in virtue of one of the members being male,
are excluded from this definition and should identify “Other
Populations” as a the primary target population served.
4. Transitional Age Youth (TAY): unaccompanied persons, ages 14 to 24.