Modest Needs Foundation

Modest Needs makes Back-to-Work Grants by remitting payment for a small fee or expense that will allow a temporarily unemployed individual to return to productive, full-time employment. In making a Back-to-Work Grant, our goal is to provide a willing but temporarily unemployed individual with the means to return to work.

Modest Needs makes Independent Living Grants by remitting payment to a creditor for an expense on behalf of persons who are permanently unable to work but who nevertheless are living independently on the limited income to which they are entitled - their retirement income, or their permanent disability income, for example. In making an Independent Living Grant, our goal is to empower financially responsible persons who cannot work to continue to live independently on their limited incomes, despite an unexpected expense that no conventional agency is prepared to address.

Modest Needs received special funding for our Hurricane Katrina Relief Program. This program was designed to assist normally self-sufficient families and individuals suffering increased household expenses, due to housing displaced Katrina victims.