MAXIMUS Foundation Provides Financial Support to Local Non-Profit Organizations

Grants Help Disadvantaged Populations Across America

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MAXIMUS (NYSE: MMS), a leading provider of government services worldwide, announced today that the MAXIMUS Foundation has distributed nearly $150,000 in grants to more than 65 non-profit organizations as part of its fall grant cycle.

The MAXIMUS Foundation is the philanthropic arm of MAXIMUS, providing financial assistance to many of the same disadvantaged populations and local communities that MAXIMUS serves as an operator of health and human services programs. The MAXIMUS Foundation provides grants to local community organizations with programs and projects in the areas of child and youth development, health, and community development.

“We are pleased to provide financial support during our latest grant cycle to so many commendable organizations that help improve the lives of children and families,” commented Dr. John Boyer, Chairman of the MAXIMUS Foundation. “These grants are made possible in part by the generous contributions from MAXIMUS employees and will be used for innovative programs that address some of our country’s most pressing health and social issues, such as physical and developmental disabilities, homelessness, unemployment and nutritional needs.”

The grants were distributed to the following organizations:

Abilities First
Alliance for Multicultural Community Services
Alliance on Teen Pregnancy
Artists for Humanity
Blue Island Citizens for Persons with Developmental Disabilities
Career Transition for Dancers
Carpenter's Shelter
Center Against Sexual and Domestic Abuse
Central City Community Outreach
Clayton Dabney Foundation for Kids with Cancer
Coalition for the Homeless
Community Art Center
Community Partners of Dallas
Community Services for the Developmentally Disabled
Comunilife
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Montgomery County, Maryland
Desert Arc
FACETS Cares
For Love of Children
Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra
Free Arts for Abused Children of New York City
Fresh Start Surgical Gifts
Friendship Community
Girls Incorporated Memphis
Hays-Caldwell Women's Center
Hmong American Partnership
Horizons for Homeless Children
Isles
Jill's House
Just Us Girls
KEEN Greater DC
Malta House of Care
Manos de Cristo
Mary's Center for Maternal & Childcare
Meals on Wheels and More
MEND
My Home, Your Home
New Avenues to Independence
Noble
Northern Illinois Food Bank
Northern Virginia Family Service
Opening Doors
Our Kids of Miami-Dade/Monroe
Passaic County CASA
The Peers Influence Peers Partnership
Porter-Leath
The Posse Foundation
Project Dignity
Ravenswood Community Services
SEEC
Sheriff's Youth Foundation
Sistercare
Sojourner Family Peace Center
South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation
Teen Living Programs
Turnstone Center for Children and Adults with Disabilities
United Neighborhood Centers of Northern Pennsylvania
Village Keepers
Volunteer Mid-South
Wildwood Programs
William Byrd Community House
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Women's Foundation of Genesee Valley
Women's Prison Association
Young Women's Leadership Charter School of Chicago

About MAXIMUS

MAXIMUS is a leading operator of government health and human services programs in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Saudi Arabia. The Company delivers business process services to improve the cost effectiveness, efficiency and quality of government-sponsored benefit programs, such as Medicaid, Medicare, Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Health Insurance BC (British Columbia), as well as welfare-to-work and child support programs around the globe. The Company's primary customer base includes federal, provincial, state, county and municipal governments. Operating under its founding mission of Helping Government Serve the People^®, MAXIMUS has approximately 8,800 employees worldwide. For more information, visit www.maximus.com.

MAXIMUS
Lisa Miles, 703-251-8637
or
Blake Travis, 703-251-8398

Source: MAXIMUS

Released November 21, 2012