Wednesday, December 1, 2010

CONRAD N. HILTON Foundation Kicks Off 5-Year Drive To End Chronic Homelessness in Los Angeles with $13 MILLION in Grants




Supporting an initiative by the Los Angeles Business Leaders Task Force on Homelessness to end chronic and veteran homelessness in Los Angeles County within five years, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation today announced $13 million in grants to fund key components of the campaign.


- $9 million to catalyze the creation of 2,500 new permanent supportive housing units
- $3.6 million to identify and house 4,500 of the most vulnerable people on the streets
- $330,000 to The Downtown Women's Center to implement Critical Time Intervention, an innovative program of intensive services for 80 chronically homeless women to help them transition into permanent housingfor an innovative pilot program to ease the transition into housing
- $200,000 to engage faith leaders and communities in the campaign

For more information, please visit http://www.hiltonfoundation.org/