GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD TV8)-The Consumers Energy Foundation announced contiguous $500,000 successful assistance backing to assistance 2 statewide organizations — the Food Bank Council of Michigan (FBCM) and the Michigan Association of United Ways (MAUW) — to supply nonstop assistance and necessities to Michiganders. The assistance backing is portion of the Consumers Energy Foundation’s committedness to investing successful Michigan’s radical and addressing captious and emergent needs successful a meaningful way.
“As costs proceed to emergence successful astir each facet of our lives, we cognize galore successful our authorities are facing important challenges to accessing basics similar nutrient and harmless housing,” said Brandon Hofmeister, president of the Consumers Energy Foundation. “The Consumers Energy Foundation is committed to eliminating immoderate barriers imaginable to those basics, and these grants volition let 2 organizations that are retired successful our communities each time to proceed and grow the enactment they’re doing to link radical and families with the resources they request to thrive.”
The 2 $250,000 grants volition let some organizations to administer the backing passim the authorities wherever the request is greatest, with a absorption connected addressing contiguous needs for residents wrong the Asset-Limited, Income-Constrained, Employed (ALICE) population. Specifically, the backing volition provide:
- $250,000 for FBCM to administer to nutrient banks for the acquisition of food, which has go progressively hard owed to expanding nutrient prices and proviso concatenation shortages; each $1 volition enactment six meals, resulting successful 1.5 cardinal meals.
- $250,000 for MAUW to administer to section United Ways to supply nonstop assistance with basal needs, including lodging repairs, state and proscription assistance, rental assistance and different necessities.
Those successful the ALICE colonisation bash not suffice for national assistance yet are often 1 large disbursal — a car repair, breached h2o heater oregon unplanned aesculapian disbursal — distant from fiscal disaster.
“The Food Bank Council of Michigan is grateful, and precise appreciative, for the enactment of the Consumers Energy Foundation to assistance money the enactment of our nutrient slope web to code nutrient insecurity successful Michigan,” said Food Bank Council of Michigan enforcement manager Dr. Phil Knight. “For truthful galore radical successful our authorities a regular repast has go an intolerable prime betwixt nutrient and different important needs, specified arsenic electricity, childcare, oregon medicine. Food banks crossed the authorities are seeing an uptick successful the fig of nutrient insecure individuals owed to inflation. This generous donation from the Consumers Energy Foundation is precise timely and impactful and volition spell a agelong mode toward expanding nutrient entree for Michigan residents.”
“The Michigan Association of United Ways works unneurotic with Local United Ways crossed the authorities each time to assistance ALICE families thrive,” said Teresa Kmetz, Board Chair of the Michigan Association of United Ways. “With the generous and continued enactment of the Consumers Energy Foundation, the Michigan United Way Network is capable to beforehand our enactment to assistance Michigan’s 1.5 cardinal ALICE families conscionable their astir basal needs – housing, kid care, food, technology, wellness care, and transportation. We are grateful to person steadfast partners, similar Consumers Energy Foundation, alongside america successful this work.”
The Consumers Energy Foundation is the charitable limb of Consumers Energy, Michigan’s largest vigor provider. The Foundation contributes to the maturation and strengthening of Michigan communities by investing in what’s astir important — our people, our satellite and Michigan’s prosperity. In 2021, the Consumers Energy Foundation, Consumers Energy, its employees and retirees contributed implicit $17.5 cardinal to Michigan nonprofits.
Consumers Energy is the main subsidiary of CMS Energy (NYSE: CMS), providing earthy state and/or energy to 6.8 cardinal of the state’s 10 cardinal residents successful each 68 Lower Peninsula counties.
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