The grant program of up to $150,000 comes as volunteers have pressed the city to do more to help the migrants.
Karl A. Racine , who as attorney general is elected independently from the mayor and has control over his office’s spending, on ThursdayRacine said he would offer grants of up to $50,000 per organization, for a total of up to $150,000, to nonprofits that can demonstrate their plans to aid migrants and then show how many migrants they assist.
has also taken responsibility for meeting about half of the buses as they arrive, operating with a $1 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Volunteer organizers have criticized Mayor Muriel E. Bowser for not applying for larger grants from FEMA that would fund the city in setting up a local-government-run response center for the migrants.; the Biden administration denied her request last week. Bowser said she will ask again.
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