CAAs in the News - February 1, 2010 through February 7, 2010 (MS Word)
Links are provided for articles if active during the week featured. Some links may expire at a later time. Users can go to CAA Links to locate individual CAA web sites and agency contact information for follow-up purposes.
AL Meals on Wheels could be facing financial crisis
The Decatur Daily - Decatur, AL
“Oh, it could be a huge blow to our budget,” said Cindy Anderson, Meals director on behalf of the Community Action Partnership...
CA Tehama County community gardens grants available
Red Bluff Daily News - Red Bluff, CA
The Tehama County Community Action Agency invites your participation in a Request for Proposal to plan, coordinate and implement community gardens focusing...
Hearts & Lives Receives Community Action Partnership Grant
RIMOFTHEWORLD.net - San Bernardino, CA
Hearts & Lives, based in Blue Jay, has received a Community Action Partnership of San Bernardino County (CAPSBC)...
$27730 awarded to schools, nonprofits
Marin Independent-Journal - Novato, CA
Recipients included Anny Owen, $2250 for a bicycle repair program; Audubon Canyon Ranch, $750; Bolinas Children's Center/Community Action Marin, $2000...
CAPSBC Announces Community Partnerships to Serve Public
Black Voice News - Riverside, CA
Patricia L. Nickols, CEO of Community Action Partnership of San Bernardino County (“CAPSBC”) announced a countywide partnership to provide services to the...
Letter: Esplanade House sends thanks
Enterprise-Record - Chico, CA
Community Action Agency of Butte County, Inc. and the Esplanade House would like to extend a thank you to all of the organizations and individuals that made...
GA Local log 2/7
Americus Times-Recorder - Americus, GA
Head Start Registration: Southwest Georgia Community Action Council Inc. holds registration for Head Start from 8 am-4 pm Feb. 8-19. Call 985-3610, 436-3303...
IA Community Action Agency seeks nominations
Sioux City Journal - Sioux City, IA
The Community Action Agency of Siouxland is seeking nominees for its board of directors. Nominations are being taken for opens seats on the...
IL Habitat, others don't receive grant funding
Danville Commercial News - Danville, IL
Habitat for Humanity, Crosspoint Human Services and East Central Illinois Community Action Agency didn't receive competitive...
IN CANI to provide early Head Start services
fwdailynews.com - Fort Wayne, IN
CANI (Community Action of Northeast Indiana) has been awarded a grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services to provide Early Head Start...
CANI gets $1.1 million from feds
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne, IN
CANI (Community Action of Northeast Indiana) is a non-profit agency that helps communities, families and individuals in poverty...
Ind. group calls attention to earned income credit
Chicago Tribune - Chicago, IL
…a state earned income tax credit set at 9 percent of the federal credit. The Indiana Community Action Association says nearly 500000 Indiana residents took advantage of the credit in 2008...
LA News conference to call for energy program funding
Monroe News Star - Monroe, LA
Ibra January, executive director, Ouachita Multi-Purpose Community Action Program; Brenda Freeman, LIHEAP recipient; Bill Robertson, executive assistant to...
MA On the job: Donna J. McGrath, Organizational Development Administrator...
Worcester Telegram - Worcester, MA
Donna McGrath, a self-described multi-tasker, loves the variety of work at the Worcester Community Action Council. “My responsibilities include fundraising...
ME H1N1 flu clinic planned for Feb. 5 at York County Community Action office
Foster's Daily Democrat - Sanford, ME
York County Community Health Care will hold a H1N1 and seasonal flu clinic at York County Community Action Corporation's office complex at 6 Spruce St...
MI Buyers of homes able to get help
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com - Jackson, MI
Groups such as Community Action Agency and the Jackson Affordable Housing Corp., meanwhile, offer advice and even financial help for those navigating a...
Jackson-area homebuyers able to get assistance
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com - Jackson, MI
Shannon Ford, right, of the Community Action Agency helps Patricia Cochran with paperwork at a homebuyer education class at...
Some object to alcohol permit for store next to preschool
Battle Creek Enquirer - Battle Creek, MI
The store's parking lot is adjacent to the playground for the Munger Center, a Head Start day care operated by Community Action at 493 W. Michigan Ave...
Community Action Agency offers tax help
Adrian Daily Telegram - Adrian, MI
Community Action Agency has free tax preparation and filing assistance available for Jackson, Lenawee and Hillsdale county residents whose 2009...
MN Flood of fed money for weatherization has led mostly to backups
Finance and Commerce - Minneapolis, MN
A figurative bolt of lightning struck community action programs in the state last year when federal stimulus money for weatherization projects started pouring in...
MO Group offers free income tax assistance
Jefferson City News Tribune - Jefferson City, MO
Once again, Central Missouri Community Action (CMCA) is reaching out offering help to the community when it is most needed for some...
Tax preparation help available to low-income county residents
Fulton Sun - Fulton, MO
The service is provided by Central Missouri Community Action (CMCA) at the Callaway County Family Resource Center, 610 Collier Lane...
Community agencies seek state support
Jefferson City News Tribune - Jefferson City, MO
Missouri's Community Action agencies have a growing problem, and they came to Jefferson City this week to let lawmakers know the federal...
NEWS RELEASE: Missouri group gets state weatherization funds
Boonville Daily News - Boonville, MO
The Department of Natural Resources' Division of Energy has issued $200822 in weatherization subgrant funds to Central Missouri Community Action...
3 properties selected to serve as Marshall community garden sites
The Marshall Democrat-News Marshall, MO
Five community members met Wednesday morning, Feb. 3, to discuss Missouri Valley Community Action Agency's community garden...
Weatherization funds awarded
KTVO - Kirksville, MO
The Green Hills Community Action Agency, or GHCAA, is one of 18 Missouri agencies that implement the state's Low Income Weatherization Assistance Program...
Making kids smile
St. Joseph News-Press - St. Joseph, MO
But a ray of hope shone into it this month, when Community Action Partnership of Greater St. Joseph — Head Start's parent organization — received $5000 from...
Missouri Association For Community Action Meets With Lawmakers
KBIA - Columbia, MO
Members from the Missouri Association for Community Action met with lawmakers yesterday (Tuesday). Meetings between the 19 individual...
People Gather to Help Missouri's Unemployed
KOMU-TV - Columbia, MO
The Missouri Association for Community Action reveals new plan to aid Missouri's needy. The new initiative by the Missouri Association for...
Association for Community Action: More living in poverty boosts need for resources
Missourinet.com - Jefferson City, MO
Community Action centers throughout the state are partnering with The United Way to help more Missourians get food...
Volunteers expect more people this year will be eligible for credits and assistance
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia, MO
This tax season, Central Missouri Community Action expects to see a potentially large increase in the number of Mid-Missourians who use...
Community program offers rent assistance
News-Leader.com - Springfield, MO
Ozarks Area Community Action Corporation has funds available to help families struggling to meet the financial needs of staying in their homes, according to...
NC Grants available to help with home repairs
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville, NC
Western Carolina Community Action is accepting applications for grants which can be used to make repairs on homes occupied by elderly or...
Community Action has heart concert
StarNewsOnline.com - Wilmington, NC
New Hanover County Community Action Inc. has for five years sponsored a heart disease awareness campaign. The effort continues with a benefit...
ND Here is the latest North Dakota news from The Associated Press...
KXNet.com - Bismarck, ND
More than $1.8 million is going to the Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency, which educates more than 300 children in the Fargo area...
NH Single mother says she would freeze without program
Seacoastonline.com - Portsmouth, NH
Jane doesn't mince words when asked what her situation would be like without help from Rockingham Community Action's heating assistance program...
Get ahead: Get your GED
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover, NH
Rockingham Community Action offers GED preparation classes at the Portsmouth Adult Basic Education Program for adults who want to prepare for the GED exam...
Salem agencies seek funding that was cut from budget
Eagle Tribune - North Andover, MA
Among those 10 groups, Rockingham Community Action is asking for $22000; Community Health Services is asking for $16000; Greater Salem Caregivers and Big...
NJ Low-cost North Bergen public health clinic recognizes employees
The Hudson Reporter - Hoboken, NJ
For North Bergen resident Glenys Munoz, the North Hudson Community Action Corporation's North Bergen site makes a big difference...
NY Cash flows in for home weatherization
Times Herald-Record - Middletown, NY
The office of the Regional Economic Community Action Program is a spartan space within an old brick building located near a defunct railroad station downtown....
OH Face of the stimulus
CNN.com (video)
CNN's Gerri Willis reports on the Weatherization Program, on an Ohio man who sees the stimulus as a blessing…
Tax-Aide, other efforts fulfill need for taxpayers
Marietta Times - Marietta, OH
In addition, Washington-Morgan Community Action has partnered with the Oho Benefit Bank to offer free income tax return filing...
Living hungry: 40 percent of local households turned for help from a food bank or pantry in ’09…
Marietta Times - Marietta, OH
"These families are not wanting handouts; they have pride," said Marilyn Sloan, food bank manager with Hocking-Athens-Perry Southeast Ohio Foodbank, Community Action...
Passenger Care program earns award
Fremont News Messenger - Fremont, OH
The Passenger Care Attendant program operated by WSOS TRIPS transportation was one of seven Community Action programs in Ohio to be named a Best Practice...
Our readers give their mentors a 'shout out'
Hamilton Journal News - Hamilton, OH
She often helped those who were less fortunate, working with the Booker T. Washington Community Center, Community Action Commission, HA Long Health Center...
OK Holdenville group prepares taxes
Ada Evening News - Ada, OK
Deep Fork Community Action can prepare taxes for free, file electronically with the IRS and have all tax returns in seven to 10 working days...
Food drive is part of Norman Mardi Gras
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City, OK
Community Action also offers assistance with rent and transitional housing, weatherization, and with prescriptions and eyeglasses...
PA Early education programs in Berks
Reading Eagle - Reading, PA
Berks Community Action Program and its partners serve the most with 214. • Programs can earn between one and four stars, based on quality standards for...
SC Heating assistance running cold
WPDE - Florence, SC
Officials with the Pee Dee Community Action Agency say everyday they get dozens of calls from people needing help, saying their power bills...
TX Cold snap, economy stress utility aid programs
Fort Worth Business Press - Fort Worth, TX
The city of Fort Worth receives Community Services Block Grant funds to act as the Community Action Agency for the entire county, and Community Action...
UT Group offers free tax preparation for Utahns
ABC 4 - Salt Lake City, UT
The Community Action Agencies of Utah held a Financial Fitness Fair in West Valley Saturday, teaching Utahns how to stretch their dollars...
Budget cuts won't pare program for neediest Utahns
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City, UT
...homeless people are getting their case management over the phone," said Melissa Smith, an advocate with Community Action Partnership of Utah...
Democracy Day Educates Utahns on Legislative Process
Fox 13 Now - Salt Lake City - Salt Lake City, UT
Community Action Partnership of Utah with AARP organized the meet and greet with lawmakers. A majority of those in attendance were senior citizens...
Utah Legislature: Democracy Day draws activists to Capitol
Deseret News - Salt Lake City, UT
Democracy Day brought together a coalition of legislators and advocacy groups, including the AARP and the Utah Community Action Partnership...
VA 'Working Toward A More Community Driven United Way'
Gazette Virginian - South Boston, VA
William J. Coleman, president and CEO of Tri-County Community Action Agency, said many of the community's needs could be met through the United Way and that...
Loudoun tax assistance programs expecting a big demand
Washington Post - Washington, DC
Tax assistance centers coordinated by the Loudoun County Department of Family Services, the county's Area Agency on Aging and AARP expect to help as many as 1,300 families this year…
WA Clallam, Jefferson counties may merge housing efforts
KONP.COM 1450 - Port Angeles, WA
Tietz says the plan will include working closely with OLYCAP, the Olympic Peninsula Community Action Program which already serves clients in both counties...
AARP volunteers in good form for filling out tax forms
The Wenatchee World Online - Wenatchee, WA
…in this year's AARP Tax Aide Program, the free tax preparation sessions sponsored in conjunction with the Chelan-Douglas Community Action Council...
Funds come for wind farms
Biofuels Watch
It has been announced by the Coastal Community Action Program that they have received funding for construction of 4 one and a half MW wind...
WV Free tax help provides filing assistance for those qualifying for Earned Income Tax Credit
Huntington Herald Dispatch - Huntington, WV
Site locations: Cabell County Library, Goodwill Industries, Weed & Seed Program, Marshall University, Southwest Community Action Council of Wayne Co...
WY Social services ask for more notice
Casper Star-Tribune Online - Casper, WY
They also went to the Salvation Army downstairs and to the Community Action Partnership of Natrona County. Neither knew of the city's action until that...
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