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Exhibit A City of Santa Ana REVIVE: SANTA ANA FOOD SUPPLY/ DISTRIBUTION PROGRAMS RFP NO.: 22-009A MPNA GREEN Programs, a fiscally sponsored project of OneOC This grant will support the food assistance component of MPNA-GREEN's COVID-19 in the Southeast Santa Ana project. The health and socio-economic impacts due to COVID-19 including rate of infection, deaths, job loss or loss of income, and risk of eviction have been and continue to be overrepresented in Anaheim, Garden Grove, and Santa Ana in comparison to other cities in Orange County (Parks et al. 2020). These impacts have also been disproportionately felt by Orange County's Hispanic Community (according to OCHCA dashboard). In Southeast Santa Ana, the impact and need are exacerbated given that this area of Santa Ana and in particular, neighborhoods including Minnie Street and Cedar Evergreen were severely economically disadvantaged and housing insecure before the Pandemic. In April 2020, MPNA-GREEN in collaboration with Madison Elementary, Santa Ana Unified School District, Radio Santa Ana and University of California, Irvine offered its first COVID-19 virtual information town hall as part of our health & wellness programs. This served to provide clear and culturally appropriate health communication to residents of Southeast Santa Ana. Subsequent town halls have taken place in July 2020 and January 2021, February, March and April in 2021. The sessions will continue in order to prevent more transmission, increase vaccinations, and recover from COVID-19. Since this time, MPNA-GREEN has also grown its COVID-19 response to include the COVID-19 Information Sessions and also (1) food assistance, (2) a rental assistance program, (3) vaccination outreach and recruitment, (4) an adult health Promoter Training, (5) Youth Education Curriculum, and (6) efforts to Measure the Impact of the Pandemic in this Community. This growing response and recovery plan is the project, COVID-19 in Southeast Santa Ana, for which we are seeking funding from Revive Santa Ana. This grant will provide food assistance to community members who have not been able to access food assistance so far. These neighbors include those who are food insecure but who lack transportation or experience other barriers to mobility to access food assistance locations that we offer at Madison Elementary. Through a partnership with UCI and UCLA, MPNA- GREEN received a Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) grant from the National Institutes of Health with the purpose of getting the community vaccinated as soon as possible.