Grants Awarded to Storm Aid Groups
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More than $80,000 in grant money was awarded Friday to three Ventura County nonprofit groups that helped hundreds of victims of El Nino-fueled storms last year, officials said.
The RAIN (River-dwellers Aid Innercity Network) Project based at Camarillo Airport was given $42,100, followed by $29,740 for Food Share in Oxnard. The Ventura County American Red Cross in Ventura received $8,420.
RAIN provides transitional living, education and counseling for homeless people, many of whom were evacuated from the Ventura River bottom during storms in early 1998.
The money was made available by the California Endowment, a Woodland Hills-based nonprofit foundation dedicated to making health care available to underserved people. The endowment was formed by Blue Cross in 1996.
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