CAAs in the News - May 17, 2010 through May 23, 2010 (MS Word)
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AL Sarrell Dental receives Head Start Award
The Enterprise Ledger - Enterprise, AL
The OCAP is a non-profit community action agency located in Troy that includes many agency programs, all aimed at assisting the quality of life for the...
CA State Lags in Dental Health Care for Children
New York Times - New York, NY
Her condition was “life-threatening,” according to a case history from Community Action Partnership of Sonoma. After spending Easter weekend in the hospital...
Hundreds of people take part in walk for poor
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco, CA
The event is sponsored by Oakland's Community Action Partnership as a way to bring awareness to the troubles of people living in poverty in Oakland...
Carolyn Rose: CSET recognizes community action
Visalia Times-Delta - Visalia, CA
During Community Action Month, more than 1000 community action agencies in the nation, like Community Services Employment Training (CSET) in our community...
Building dedication
Merced Sun-Star - Merced, CA
Merced County Community Action Agency will host an open house and building dedication for its new building at 1235 W. Main St. from 2 to 4 pm June 4...
CT Community Action Agencies Providing Many Jobs in Recession
Public News Service
New data show Connecticut's community action agencies have successfully put federal stimulus money to work, both in creating jobs and in providing essential...
DC National Community Action Foundation Recognizes Weatherization Training Site for New Program
MarketWatch (press release)
This is one of nine grants across eight states aimed at increasing the capacity of Community Action Agencies and Weatherization Assistance Program agencies...
DE First State celebrates collaborative approach to fighting poverty
Sussex Countian - Georgetown, DE
This year during National Community Action Month—a commemoration held in May to highlight the anti-poverty work of community action agencies...
IA NEICAC receives funding for affordable housing
Decorah Journal Decorah, IA
Northeast Iowa Community Action Corporation has been awarded $200000 for construction of three new single-family homes. "Affordable housing is essential to...
IL 18 families recognized for overcoming hard times
The State Journal-Register - Springfield, IL
Rickord, originally from Lincoln, was honored during the Illinois Association of Community Action Agencies' 14th annual Families of Distinction ceremony at...
IN No game when living paycheck to paycheck
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne, IN
Community Action of Northeast Indiana brought in several dozen people, divided them into a bunch of fictional poor families and told them to survive...
Burns Harbor hungry for part time workers
Chesterton Tribune - Chesterton, IN
...Town Council meeting the town has applied for a 2010 Summer Youth Employment Project worksite with the Northwest Indiana Community Action program...
Miss Indiana to speak at this year's Senior Games
Journal and Courier - Lafayette, IN
Area IV Agency on Aging and Community Action Programs is the host of 21 recreational events. Nicole Pollard, Miss Indiana, will speak at the opening...
KS ECKAN celebrates National Community Action Month
Louisburg Herald - Louisburg, KS
National Community Action Month is a commemoration held in May to highlight the anti-poverty work of Community Action Agencies across the country...
LA IRS honors Alexandria community volunteers in program today, May 20
Alexandria Town Talk - Alexandria, LA
...the annual VITA Recognition Program at 1 pm today, May 20, at the Cenla Community Action Committee office located at 1335 Jackson Street in Alexandria...
St. Mary Community Action Agency Opens Culinary School
The Daily Advertiser - Lafayette, LA
Tullier is the instructor for St. Mary Community Action Agency's Culinary School, which began its classes Monday (May 17, 2010). The twenty students are the...
Home energy aid is available
Opelousas Daily World - Opelousas, LA
The St. Landry Parish Community Action Agency will begin accepting applications this week in Opelousas for its Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program...
MA Foreclosure crisis hits home in Somerville
Boston Globe - Boston, MA
Vallery is not alone in her plight, according to the Community Action Agency of Somerville and Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services, who have been...
Free concerts for South Shore kids
Boston Globe - Boston, MA
Sponsored by South Shore Community Action Council, Inc., and Coordinated Family & Community Engagement, through a grant from Department of Early Education...
MD Gazette Readers Write: County Budget
Maryland Gazette - Glen Burnie, MD
Of 38 nonprofit agencies funded by the county, the Anne Arundel County Economic Opportunity Committee, known by most as Community Action Agency...
MI 132 pounds collected in East Grand Rapids prescription dropoff
MLive.com - Grand Rapids, MI
The Community Action Council, a group comprised of parents and representatives of the school district and law enforcement, recently collected 132 pounds of prescription drugs...
MN Advocates say urban farming feeds the poor, provides jobs
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth, MN
One program, Seeds of Success, sponsored by Community Action Duluth, is turning vacant lots into urban vegetable farms where seasonal workers will grow...
NC Families get help becoming self-sufficient
BlueRidgeNow.com - Hendersonvile, NC
Jessica Cox Cervantes, 31, walked into Western Carolina Community Action in August 2004 by accident. She was looking for work and needed...
NE Funding Available For Relief Services
Sidney Sun Telegraph - Sidney, NE
The funds were awarded through the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program and are being administered locally by the Community Action Partnership...
Fun offered for kids of migrants
Omaha World-Herald - Omaha, NE
The Community Action Partnership of Western Nebraska's Migrant Head Start Program wants to ensure that the summer will be enjoyable and...
NH Rochester workshop offers practical advice on how to prepare to get a new job
Foster's Daily Democrat Rochester, NH
Michelle Hart from Strafford County Community Action gave a presentation on resumes. She said the biggest mistake people make with resumes is not making the...
NJ New fundraising program offered by NORWESCAP
myCentralJersy.com - Somerville, NJ
The Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program's Career & Life Transitions Center for Women is announcing a new fundraising program...
West New York health fair provides moms and kids with medical tips and services
The Jersey Journal - NJ.com - Hoboken, NJ
...Friday for the third annual "Spring Into Health Fair" put on by the North Hudson Community Action Corporation's WIC (Women, Infant & Children) program...
NY “Cereal Counts” ready to distribute over 1500 boxes to community groups
Mid-Hudson News - Middletown, NY
This year, she has collected well over 1500 boxes to be given to Dutchess Outreach, Community Action Partnership's food pantries, Beulah Baptist...
Community Action honors 'angels'
The Daily News Online - Batavia, NY
He presented Angel Awards to volunteers and community members on Monday who advance the agency's mission. About 120 people attended Community Action's...
CAP Plans Two Structures on Cemetery Road
Madison County Courier - Oneida, NY
Community Action Partnership plans to move its office and add a community center to a new building on Cemetery Road in the town of Lenox...
Ervin, Goodwin win Utica board seats
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica, NY
Ervin, a Mohawk Valley Community Action Agency community educator, earned 1370 votes, enough to earn her a five-year term on the board...
OH Annual health fair is Wednesday
Coshocton Tribune - Coshocton, OH
The annual event will be from 9 am to noon at the Coshocton Senior Center, Kno-Ho-Co-Ashland Community Action Commission, Senior Services...
Community Action Partnership plans Blue Moon Affair
Dayton Daily News - Dayton, OH
The Community Action Partnership of the Greater Dayton Area is planning the “Blue Moon Affair” from 6 to 11 pm Saturday, June 5, at the Schuster Center in...
Senior living community celebrates grand opening
Chillicothe Gazette - Chillicothe, OH
The site was constructed by Woda LLC, which worked with Fayette County Community Action and the USDA Rural Development office and the Ohio Housing Finance...
Another way: Community takes to buses, bikes as alternatives to cars
Marietta Times - Marietta, OH
That meant there was no charge to travel on a Community Action Bus Line bus Tuesday, whether the passenger was a newcomer or a regular rider like Michael...
Community Action Agency offers free job training
Canton Repository - Canton, OH
The Stark County Community Action Agency Center for Education and Employment Opportunities will offer Microsoft Office Certification and other...
OR Housing continues to challenge evicted Seaside tenants
Daily Astorian - Astoria, OR
The remaining four are staying in motels, paid for by Clatsop Community Action, or with friends. One of those families may have to go to a homeless shelter...
Canyonville event focuses on meth prevention
NRToday.com - Roseburg, OR
Saundra Carroll, an AmeriCorps worker at United Community Action Network, leads a discussion at a Wednesday meth conference on what participants can do to...
PA Sober logic
Tribune Review - Pittsburgh, PA
...brain of anyone under 21 are "serious and damaging," notes Tim Phillips, coordinator of Westmoreland Community Action's Community Prevention Services...
Fatherhood Initiative program helps dads improve
Norristown Times Herald - Norristown, PA
But a few inspired men recently breathed new life into the once-ailing Fatherhood Initiative program at CADCOM (Community Action Development Commission of...
RI Westbay Children's Center chosen as local Pepsi Community Service Project
Warwick Beacon - Warwick, RI
Westbay Community Action was selected as the local community service site by Pepsi Beverages Company in Cranston, as part of the “Pepsi Supports Surrounding...
UT Free tax filing help this Saturday
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City, UT
...they're passing up on money that is essentially theirs," said Casey Christoffersen, who is organizing the event for Community Action Partnership of Utah...
Number of households on food stamps drops
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City, AL
At the food pantry, run by the Salt Lake Community Action Program, the number of people who arrive seeking free food continues to grow...
VA A hand up, not a hand out, is Clinch Valley Community Action hallmark
Bluefield Daily Telegraph - Bluefield, WV
For all those reasons, Clinch Valley Community Action and a host of cooperative local agencies are welcome members of Four Seasons Country...
Clinch Valley Community Action celebrates 45 years of care
Bluefield Daily Telegraph - Bluefield, WV
“This movement called 'community action' was born in 1964 when President Lyndon Johnson pledged to Congress that he intended to carry on the programs of the...
VT Stimulus helps BROC hire, retain jobs
Rutland Herald - Rutland, VT
BROC-Community Action in Southwestern Vermont has received more than $1 million in American Recovery funds that so far has helped create or retain 46 jobs through the end of March...
WA Have a Heart Run to benefit Community Action
TMCnet - Norwalk, CT
The Skagit County Community Action Agency is holding the first a Heart Run at Edgewater Park in Mount Vernon at 9:30 a.m. Saturday...
CAP coffee shop program misses out on federal grant
Longview Daily News - Longview, WA
Lower Columbia Community Action Program officials want to open a coffee shop and cafe to provide on-the job food service training while also providing the...
WV Community action agencies celebrate National Community Action Month
Beckley Register-Herald - Beckley, WV
Community action agencies were created in the 1960s to work as a unified front to alleviate the underlying issues of poverty in the United States...
Free Rides
WTAP-TV - Parkersburg, WV
The Community Action Bus Lines of Washington County gave its customers a free ride today. "Ride The Bus Day" was all part of an effort to encourage more...
Recognizing Community Action Groups
WTAP-TV - Parkersburg, WV
Parkersburg Mayor Robert Newell and Vienna Mayor David Nohe signed a Community Action Month proclamation Tuesday morning. They met with representatives from...