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Florida Hurricane Relief Fund to Distribute $1 Million to Nonprofits Second Phase of Funding Totaling $6 Million to Counties Begins
For Immediate Release November 3, 2004

Contact: Fonda Anderson
727-821-2056

TALLAHASSEE -- Volunteer Florida Foundation, which manages the Florida Hurricane Relief Fund for unmet needs, announces that $1 million has been earmarked for nonprofits across Florida. Additionally, Phase II allocations, totaling $6 million, for counties impacted by this season’s hurricanes is now under way. Phase I allocations totaled $3,914,678, with an additional $1.2 million in donor-restricted contributions.

Allocations are being made in phases to give the 31 eligible counties, many hit multiple times this hurricane season, the opportunity to accurately assess needs on an ongoing basis as restoration progresses. A list of affected counties and contacts can be reviewed at www.FLAHurricaneFund.org/contacts.php.

Beginning immediately, nonprofits serving multiple counties or working statewide, can apply for assistance from the fund. Allocations may be used to assist migrant workers impacted by the hurricanes, assist in individuals’ housing repairs and rebuilds, to enhance volunteer program management in affected counties, and to help rebuild damaged structures that house nonprofit organizations. Access to the request for proposal for nonprofits is now available via the fund’s website at www.FLAHurricaneFund.org. Deadline for application is Friday, November 12.

Phase II allocations total $6 million. Of that, $5 million is being targeted to the 16 hardest hit counties, based on FEMA registrations. (A listing of these counties is available on the website. These counties also were eligible for Phase I funding.)

Funding from this phase will focus on individuals’ needs within those impacted counties, including assisting hurricane survivors with utility payments and rent – difficult to meet due to unemployment stemming from the hurricanes and/or the need to re-establish residences as houses were destroyed, child care needs in areas where such facilities have been severely damaged or destroyed and housing needs.

The remaining $1 million of Phase II funding will be made available to counties not on the hardest-hit list, but eligible under Phase I. Application for new allocations from these counties can be made by amending the previous distribution plan submitted to the Florida Hurricane Relief Fund.

The Florida Hurricane Relief Fund is designed to cover costs not met by insurance, federal and state agencies and other relief organizations. Counties decide how their allocations need to be directed through a joint effort of committees comprising county government and relief organizations working within those counties.

The Fund’s voluntary steering committee is chaired by former U.S. Senator Connie Mack, with Tallahassee-based attorney Steve Uhlfelder serving as the voluntary CEO. Vice-chairmen are Joe Lacher, President-Florida, BellSouth Telecommunications Inc. and Clarence Otis, CEO-designee of Darden Restaurants Inc. Also serving the committee are Susan Story, President and CEO of Gulf Power Company, and Tony Carvajal, President of Carvajal Consulting and Management.

The fund is managed by nonprofit Volunteer Florida Foundation. All donations are tax-deductible and will be used for the hurricane relief effort in Florida. For more information, visit www.flahurricanefund.org, or call 1-800-FL-HELP-1. Checks, made payable to the Florida Hurricane Relief Fund, can be mailed to Volunteer Florida Foundation, 401 S. Monroe Street, Tallahassee, FL 32301.



Across Florida thousands of lives have been devastated this hurricane season.




Floridians in crisis need your help. Please donate to Florida Hurricane Relief Fund to help the thousands whose lives have been devastated.


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