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HOLLYWOOD - Attorney General Charlie Crist today presented checks totaling $2,515,000 to 47 food and nutrition organizations in the South Florida area. The funds represent part of a settlement between the Office of the Attorney General and six vitamin manufacturing companies.

"The ability to help needy citizens achieve good health through improved nutrition made this settlement particularly rewarding," said Crist. "These funds will help worthy programs improve the quality of life for many Floridians."

To resolve price-fixing allegations, the Attorney General’s Office in Florida and 20 other states reached a settlement for $255 million with three European and three Japanese companies that conspired to set the prices of vitamins throughout most of the 1990s. Of that amount, Florida received $16.5 million to be distributed under a court approved plan to fund programs that advance health or nutrition.

These checks are a continuation of presentations made by the Attorney General around the state, with additional presentations to be scheduled in the near future.

A list of organizations receiving funds is attached to this release.

Organization	Grant $
Allapattah Community Action, Inc.	70,000
Allapattah-Wynwood Community Development Center, Inc.	40,000
Alliance for Aging	150,000
Alzheimer's Community Care	25,000
Association for Psychological Services, Inc.	35,000
Broward County Law Enforcement Officers Organization, Inc.	25,000
Children's Diagnostics & Treatment Center, Inc.	80,000
City of Cooper City (Police Department and Parks and Recreation Department fbo "Healthy Snack Program")	40,000
City of Hollywood, Police Department	50,000
City of Margate, Police Department	20,000
City of Miramar	20,000
City of Sweetwater	125,000
Coalition for Independent Living Options, Inc.	50,000
Conference of Haitian Pastors United in Christ, Inc.	25,000
Deerfield Beach Affordable Housing Corporation	20,000
Early Childhood Initiative Foundation	200,000
Easter Seals Miami-Dade, Inc.	8,500
Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami, Inc.	30,000
First Haitian Baptist Church Youth & Development Center, Inc.	20,000
First Presbyterian Church of West Palm Beach, Inc.	20,000
Florence Fuller Child Development Centers	25,000
Galata Haitian Culture Enrichment & Self Empowerment, Inc.	30,000
Gateway Community Outreach, Inc.	25,000
Haitian Organization of Women, Inc.	30,000
Hands in Action, Inc.	10,000
Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Broward County, Inc.	35,000
His House Children's Home	76,000
Little Haiti Housing Association, Inc.	23,000
Memorial Healthcare System	27,000
Memorial Healthcare System	200,000
Miami / Miami-Dade Weed and Seed, Inc. County	77,000
Miami Beach Community Health Center, Inc.	40,000
Minority Development & Empowerment, Inc.	45,000
Opa-Locka Rescue Mission	30,000
Reaching U Network, Inc.	16,000
Sheriff's Office, Broward County	75,000
St. Joseph Towers	3,500
Step by Step	10,000
Stop Hunger, Inc.	100,000
Susan B. Anthony Center, Inc.	10,000
T & T Learning Center	20,000
Teen Up-Ward Bound, Inc.	44,000
Theodore Rooselvelt Gibson Memorial Fund, Incorporated	20,000
Women in Distress of Broward County, Inc.	10,000
Women's Alliance of Miami-Dade & Broward, Inc.	30,000
World Relief Corporation of National Association of Evangelicals	350,000
YMCA of Broward County, Florida, Inc.	100,000
	2,515,000