Hilton Foundation Gifts $8.5M To L.A. United Way

LOS ANGELES – The board of directors of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation announced today that 14 grants totaling $26 million were approved during its third quarter, including $8.5 million over three years to support the Home For Good initiative at the United Way of Greater Los Angeles to end chronic and veteran homelessness in Los Angeles County.

"We are proud to continue our partnership with the United Way of Greater Los Angeles in support of the Home For Good Initiative. In its seventh year, our partners in government, nonprofit and philanthropy continue to work collaboratively to drive long-term solutions to end homelessness in Los Angeles County," said Peter Laugharn, the president and CEO of the Hilton Foundation.

"The foundation's investment alone is not enough to bring solutions to scale, and public-private partnerships such as Home For Good allow the foundation's investment in our communities to be amplified," he added.
In addition to the $8.5 million grant to United Way of Greater Los Angeles, the New Venture Fund will receive $1.2 million to support Funders for Housing and Opportunity, described as "a cross-sector, nonpartisan, national collaborative committed to bettering life outcomes for rent burdened households and individuals experiencing homelessness through permanent housing."

Other grants awarded in the third quarter of 2017 included:

-- $750,000 to the Foster Youth Fund for Public Health in New York to increase access to pregnancy prevention services for foster youth in New York City public high schools and agencies working with foster youth;

-- $750,000 to the administrators of Tulane Educational Fund to support the expansion of an apprenticeship type job-training and education program into hospitality pathways at the Hilton Riverside;

-- $1.4 million to Young Children Affected by HIV and AIDS Episcopal Relief and Development to support and document an integrated early childhood development program in Zambia and Kenya through faith-based partners;

-- $1.6 million to Project Concern International to implement and test the integration of responsive care and nutrition support to caregivers in Tanzania;

-- and $4.1 million, jointly funded with the Hilton Foundation's Catholic Sisters Strategic Initiative, to Catholic Relief Services for the second phase of a program called Strengthening the Capacity of Women Religious in Early Childhood Development in Zambia, Kenya and Malawi.

The Hilton Foundation, which was created in 1944 by Hilton Hotels founder Conrad N. Hilton, currently focuses on six areas: providing safe water, ending chronic homelessness, preventing substance use, helping children affected by HIV and AIDS, supporting transition-age youth in foster care, and extending its founder's support for the work of Catholic Sisters.

From its inception, the foundation has awarded more than $1.6 billion in grants, distributing $109 million in the U.S. and around the world in 2016.

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