Grant Recipients

After Hurricane Katrina

In 2005

$200,000 to Habitat for Humanity for its efforts to rebuild homes and help families devastated by the Gulf Coast hurricanes.

$75,000 to The Boys and Girls Clubs of America, which will assist the rebuilding of the many community-based clubs damaged or destroyed by the natural disasters.

$75,000 to Matthew 25 Ministries, an international humanitarian relief organization, to provide needed supplies to the hurricane-affected areas.

$75,000 to Oxfam America, an international development and relief agency, to fund recovery services including home repair and clean-up kits that will ensure the health of families returning to damaged homes.

$75,000 to the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), the principal association representing state directors of education and technology, to assist in efforts to provide mobile technology labs to areas in which schools were damaged by the storms. SETDA has been coordinating delivery of the mobile labs in coordination with the cable industry’s education foundation, Cable in the Classroom.

In addition to the above donations, funding was provided to employee relief funds of three Gulf Coast cable operators that were hit hard by the hurricane. Those funds have been used to provide direct support to hundreds of employees who are rebuilding their lives, including basic necessities like housing assistance, household goods, transportation and other uses. These employee relief fund grants included:

$100,000 to Cox Communications

$100,000 to CableONE

and $10,000 to Mediacom

In 2006

$50,000 to Helping Americans Needing Disaster Support (HANDS), a Mississippi-based organization which is responding to the changing needs of post-Katrina recovery by taking on a variety of tasks including the distribution of supplies and clothing, coordinating cleaning and debris removal, and partnering individual families with churches and community groups to assist in the recovery process.

$50,000 to Southeast Mississippi Chapter, American Red Cross, to provide locally-based support for their continuing work post-Katrina.

In 2007

$17,000 to Emergency Communities, which is operating temporary community centers in New Orleans to offer a variety of services including meals and the distribution of goods.

After the 2007 Wildfires in California

$200,000 to Habitat for Humanity for its efforts to rebuild homes and help families devastated by the Gulf Coast hurricanes.

$10,000 to San Diego Food Bank, an organization providing food to people in need.

$10,000 to Santa Clarita Valley Disaster Coalition, a non-profit, all volunteer coalition of local residents, businesses, community leaders and organizations that collects and dispenses funds to area residents who have suffered loss as a result of a natural disaster or community-wide emergency.