state: MS -> US

name: FEMA school donation policy -> FEMA School Donation Policy
notes: Web site noted is relevant federal statute outlining FEMA disposition toward post-disaster donations. The short of it: Schools seeking FEMA's 90% reimbursement for replacement of items lost in disaster will not receive remibursement for such items if they have also accepted donations of used versions of such items. For example, when Jackson County schools accepted used school buses purchased by Chicago school children, FEMA took two buses off the list of things Jackson was having reimbursed. It doesn't matter that the buses were old and that the schools were seeking new. The shorter of it: It's not in the schools' interest to accept used items. What they can accept without running afoul of regulations: • Items they have not sought reimbursement for (e.g., consumables like student school supplies) • Items on loan (if we loan them used computers and they agree to pass them along to others thereafter) We can help schools by donating items they would otherwise have to pay for fully out of oeprating funds. -> Web site noted is relevant federal statute outlining FEMA disposition toward post-disaster donations. The short of it: Schools seeking FEMA's 90% reimbursement for replacement of items lost in disaster will not receive remibursement for such items if they have also accepted donations of used versions of such items. For example, when Jackson County schools accepted used school buses purchased by Chicago school children, FEMA took two buses off the list of things Jackson was having reimbursed. It doesn't matter that the buses were old and that the schools were seeking new. The shorter of it: It's not in the schools' interest to accept used items. What they can accept without running afoul of regulations: • Items they have not sought reimbursement for (e.g., consumables like student school supplies) • Items on loan (if we loan them used computers and they agree to pass them along to others thereafter) We can help schools by donating items they would otherwise have to pay for fully out of oeprating funds.