LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Meals pantries throughout the state of Michigan have a chance to use for brand new refrigeration items for his or her services to assist higher serve their communities.
Blue Cross Blue Defend of Michigan, Blue Cross Full of Michigan, the Blue Cross Blue Defend of Michigan Basis and the United Dairy Trade have partnered on this social-mission endeavor that has supplied 179 organizations with home equipment for the reason that program launched in 2022.
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With 15.4% of the state affected by meals insecurity, the work meals pantries do is invaluable. To that finish, the organizations awarding the grants have ensured that the method, usually lengthy and sophisticated, is a reasonably easy one.
Shannon Carney Oleksyk, Senior Healthcare Analyst at Blue Cross Blue Defend of Michigan, says it is extra like a “short, simple questionnaire.” The majority of it entails specifying how and why the pantry wants the fridges.
Streamlining the method is critical in that it opens the doorways to everybody somewhat than simply these with specialised data within the grant-writing course of, which is usually fairly complicated.
Dr. Stan Parker, govt director of Eastside Group Motion Middle, notes that it was significantly useful as a result of, as a nonprofit, they do not have “a lot of time to spend on paperwork when we’re trying to serve.”
The applying is open by June twenty second to all meals pantries throughout the state of Michigan.
