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Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor and Representatives Marion Berry (AR-01), Vic Snyder (AR-02), John Boozman (AR-03), and Mike Ross (AR-04) today announced that $1,701,979 has been awarded to Arkansas by the Emergency Food and Shelter (EFS) Program.
The following counties will receive funds:
Arkansas County $27,159
Ashley County $17,676
Baxter County $24,707
Benton County $99,408
Boone County $21,672
Bradley County $8,952
Carroll County $14,920
Chicot County $10,014
Clark County $15,097
Clay County $13,681
Cleburne County $16,867
Columbia County $17,929
Conway County $13,175
Craighead County $53,813
Crawford County $33,380
Crittenden County $41,043
Cross County $14,364
Desha County $12,846
Drew County $15,476
Faulkner County $61,779
Franklin County $9,281
Garland County $56,721
Greene County $30,573
Hempstead County $15,552
Hot Spring County $22,962
Howard County $8,269
Independence County $29,334
Izard County $8,522
Jackson County $14,869
Jefferson County $64,181
Johnson County $12,594
Lawrence County $12,619
Lee County $8,067
Lincoln County $9,888
Logan County $15,552
Madison County $7,915
Marion County $9,711
Miller County $20,028
Mississippi County $38,944
Ouachita County $18,966
Phillips County $16,083
Pike County $7,890
Poinsett County $17,651
Polk County $10,950
Pope County $34,645
Pulaski County $214,646
Randolph County $16,412
St. Francis County $24,858
Sebastian County $74,347
Sharp County $11,430
Union County $29,511
Van Buren County $10,115
Washington County $101,911
White County $48,022
Yell County $11,304
State Set-Aside Committee, AR $123,698
Arkansas Total $1,701,979
Additional jurisdictions in Arkansas may be selected at a later date by the EFS State Set-Aside Committee. The EFS National Board, chaired by the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and composed of representatives from American Red Cross; Catholic Charities, USA; United Jewish Communities; National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.; The Salvation Army; and United Way of America, provides supplemental funding to shelters, soup kitchens, and food banks. One-month awards for rent, mortgage, and utility assistance are also available. The funds are used to help individuals and families with non-disaster, temporary emergency needs.
In each funded jurisdiction, a Local Board advertises the availability of the funds, establishes local priorities, selects local non-profit and government agencies to receive supplemental funding, and monitors program compliance. The Local Board’s composition mirrors the EFS Program National Board, with a local government official replacing FEMA and board members voting to select their chair.
The EFS Program has been in existence since 1983 and was authorized under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987. With the FY 2008 allocation, more than $3.105 billion in federal aid will have been disbursed through the EFS Program since its inception to communities nationwide, and has accounted for millions of additional meals and nights of shelter to the hungry and homeless most in need across the nation.
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