The purpose of the Neighbor-to-Neighbor LifeLine fund is to help meet immediate needs in the areas of housing (including shelter, foreclosure intervention, security deposit and emergency rental assistance), food, and emergency relief (coverage of one-time expenses that threaten to put a family or individual in a crisis situation). It is not intended to be an ongoing funding source.

Successful applicants for N2N LifeLine grants will clearly demonstrate how the requested funding will help your organization serve more people in crisis, or provide more enhanced or additional services to those whom you are already serving.  Please review the Grant Awards Page for examples of successful N2N applicants.

EXAMPLES

The following information is meant to provide clarification and examples for applicants of services that could be funded through N2N LifeLine. These are illustrative examples and should not be read as an exhaustive list of services that will meet the funding criteria.

Emergency food
• Purchase of food
• Purchase and distribution of supermarket gift certificates/vouchers/cards
• Increased costs for your organization associated with procuring, storing and/or delivering emergency food
• Purchase of equipment to store, transport, or deliver food
• Costs associated with training volunteers or to reimbursing volunteers for travel expenses to deliver food

Emergency housing
• Additional shelter-based beds for individuals and/or families
• Foreclosure intervention services such as rescue funds and/or emergency mortgage payments
• Security deposits
• Emergency rental assistance
• Increased costs for your organization associated with providing additional emergency housing, shelter, security deposit and emergency rental assistance services

Emergency relief funds (Shoreline process only)
• In situations in which there is no other source of payment, and failure to intervene will place an individual or family in crisis, such as loss of job, utility shut-off, loss of transportation, or loss of child care, purchase of goods and/or services necessary to prevent the crisis