FEMA funding available for food, shelter programs

Applications due March 29

The Eastern Plains Region has been chosen to receive $17,784 to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the counties.

The selection was made by a national board chaired by the US Department of Agriculture's Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency and consists of representatives from the American Red Cross; Catholic Charities, USA; National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA; the Jewish Federations of North America; the Salvation Army, and the United Way Worldwide.

A local board was discharged to distribute funds appropriated by Congress to help expand the capacity of food and shelter programs in high-need areas around the country.

A local board made up of representatives from county government, Salvation Army, American Red Cross, Catholic Charities, the Ministerialplaintiff filed a series of complaints alleging age and handicap discrimination. In December 1981, plaintiff sought informal Equal Employment Opportunity counseling,[1] alleging that he had not been selected for a position that was open in November 1981 because of handicap discrimination. Apparently as a result of this informal counseling, the Postmaster of the Portland, Maine, Post Office extended an offer of full time employment to plaintiff, conditioned on medical approval by the Office of Personnel Management.[2] Plaintiff alleges that he accepted the offer of employment in the manner required by the offer, and that he obtained the required medical approval, but that he was never appointed to the position.[3]
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