Forest Lake Baptist – $25,000- Purchase, store, and distrubute funiture to families affected by the storm.

West AL Food Bank – $25,000-Restocking pantries of 500 households.

Tuscaloosa’s One Place – $21,065 -Backpacks and supplies for affected school children.

Legal Services of AL – $53,000 -Assisting those below poverty level in applying for disaster assistance, supporting their claims and representing them in court.

Calvary Baptist Church – $177,840 - Moving costs, rental assistance and utility deposits for impacted residents of Rosedale Court.

Police Athletic League -  $5,000 -Funds provided by the Tuscaloosa Tourism and Sports Commission for special programs for children impacted by the tornadoes.

Boys & Girls Club – $15,000 – Replace education, technology, and art supplies destroyed by the tornado.

UA Law Clinical Programs -  $10,000 -Temporary, part-time attorney(s) to help give free legal assistance to those needing help with disaster-related issues.

Family Counseling Services -  $7,500 – Counseling school children in the areas affected by the storms.

Forest Lake Baptist - $15,000 – Building supplies to be dispensed to families rebuilding.

Temporary Emergency Services - $96,600 – Helping individuals and families with needs such as deposits, furniture, housing and transportation repairs, moving costs, and needs not met by insurance companies. Also, for the rental of addition warehouse space for storage of items donated for disaster relief.

Kid One Transport - $5,000 - Subsidize the replacement of the Tuscaloosa area transport vehicle destroyed by the April 27th tornado.

UA Arboretum -  $10,438.70 - Tree bank, where donated trees will be collected, stored and maintained for later distribution to the community.

Family Counseling Services - $15,288 - Cover costs of temporary staff from May 2011-2012 to handle increase volume of free counseling for storm victims.  

Forest Lake Baptist – $25,000 - Personal supplies for needy families displaced by the storms.

Forest Lake Baptist – $25,000 - Replacement furniture for needy family impacted by the storms.

Good Samaritan Clinic – $3,900 - Basic healthcare supplies for impacted individuals.

Community Service Programs of West Alabama – $340,500 - Increase the available lower income housing units in the Tuscaloosa area which will be used for displaced tornado victims. Funds will be used to convert vacant, delapidated units into usable housing.

PARA Foundation – $80,737.95 - Cost associated with providing temporary emergency shelters for individuals impacted by the tornadoes.

Greater Alabama Health Network – $20,000 - Assist maternity patients impacted by the tornado.

DCH Foundation – $100,000 - Support the extraordinary costs incurred by DCH Health Systems in providing emergency response services to tornado victims.

Big Brothers Big Sisters – $60,000 - Provide additional support for the children impacted by the storm.

Tuscaloosa’s One Place – $60,000 - Provide additional case worker to assist clients affected by the storm.

The Salvation Army — Tuscaloosa — $150,000 – Provide food, comfort kits, medical supplies, clothing, furniture, appliances, household items, and rent/utility assistance to clients affected by the storm.

United Saints Recovery Project – $100,000 – Assist in a minimum of 25 home rehab projects with an experienced project foreman and 3 construction site supervisors.

Forest Lake Baptist Church — $30,000- Food and seasonal clothing certificates to assist clients affected by the storm during Thanksgiving season

Forest Lake Baptist Church — $40,000 – Food and seasonal clothing certificates to assist clients affected by the storm during Christmas season

Forest Lake Baptist Church — $26,000—Funds to assist with setup costs of temporary modular unit used for disaster relief efforts

Temporary Emergency Services – $27,000 – Funds to assist with lease costs of warehouse used to store food, clothing, furniture, and other items for clients affected by the storm.

Community Foundation of West Alabama – $50,000 — Funds to hire two temporary staff personnel to assist with the community’s long-term recovery coalition efforts.

Whatley Health Services, Inc. – $220,176.00 – Funds to cover costs associated with providing medical care, medications, and case management and outreach to storm victims.

Secret Meals For Hungry Children — $8,160.00 – Purchase of food packs for hungry children in schools affected by the storm.  Seventy children will be served for an entire year.

Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter– $2,000 –Helping storm victims with vet care including spray/neuter surgeries for their animals.

Habitat for Humanity of Tuscaloosa–$170,000–Construction materials for housing tornado impacted families.

West Alabama Chapter American Red Cross–$120,000–Offset storm expenses (clean up kits, comfort kits, meals), plus related office expenses.

Compassion Coalition of Tuscaloosa–$9,750–Replace items lost in storm and replenish funds used on building materials and disaster related supplies.

Habitat for Humanity of Tuscaloosa–$80,000–Construction materials for housing tornado impacted families.

Nicole Cammon and Eddie Crispin, who are engaged, opened up their new house on 7th Street East in the tornado recovery zone to family, friends, local officials and project sponsors.

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(Nebraska City, Neb., July 5, 2011) — In the wake of the devastating tornadoes that battered Tuscaloosa and communities throughout north Alabama, the Arbor Day Foundation, in collaboration with the Alabama Forestry Commission, launched a new campaign to bring trees to families throughout the area.

The new Alabama Tree Recovery Campaign has been launched in response to proactive efforts of the Alabama Forestry Commission to spearhead recovery of the area’s trees and forests and the requests of concerned Arbor Day Foundation members and supporters across the country.

While the cleanup and rebuilding will continue for years to come, people can help the healing process now. Anyone can help with an online donation at www.arborday.org/Tuscaloosa. For every dollar donated, the Arbor Day Foundation will deliver a tree to an Alabama resident affected by the April tornadoes.

The Alabama Tree Recovery Campaign aims to help families restore their homes and neighborhoods. The new trees bring beauty, healing, and hope. With people’s support to the Alabama Tree Recovery Campaign, the tree-lined streets, shaded parks, and beautiful neighborhoods that have always been part of Alabama can return.

The Arbor Day Foundation will deliver native trees selected to thrive in the area at the best time for planting. Distribution of the trees to awaiting Alabama families and communities will be coordinated by the Alabama Forestry Commission in February 2012.

“The Alabama Tree Recovery Campaign is an important effort to distribute trees to Alabamians who had homes destroyed in the April tornado outbreak,” said Governor Robert Bentley. “This campaign will help restore our communities and I am appreciative to the Alabama Forestry Commission and Arbor Day Foundation for coming together on this project.”

“The trees lost in the recent tornado outbreak provided millions of dollars in environmental, economic, and social benefits,” said Linda Casey, the Alabama State Forester. “This campaign can go a long way toward putting our communities and surrounding areas on the path to recovery.”

The Alabama Tree Recovery Campaign is the newest initiative in the Arbor Day Foundation’s Trees for America program. Other initiatives include delivering more than 120,000 trees to Gulf Coast families who were victims of Hurricane Katrina, and replanting more than 20 million trees in national forests devastated by disease and fire.

The Arbor Day Foundation is a nonprofit conservation and education organization with more than one million members nationwide. More information about the Foundation and its conservation programs can be found at www.arborday.org.

The Alabama Forestry Commission is a state agency committed to protecting, conserving, and increasing Alabama’s forest resource. For more information, visit www.forestry.alabama.gov.

The donation is being made through the Synovus Foundation with funds being allocated to various agencies in the markets served. Bank of Tuscaloosa will distribute $40,000 to the United Way of West Alabama, The American Red Cross, the West Alabama Chamber Foundation, Focus on Senior Citizens, Boys and Girls Club of West Alabama and Temporary Emergency Services of Tuscaloosa Co.

For more information, call 205.343.0505.