CAAs in the News - April 6, 2009 through April 12, 2009 (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.

AZ Ariz. organizations donate to community relief matching-fund program
Sun Shopper - Prescott, AZ
While the community relief matching-fund program ends on April 19, the ad campaign will continue on under the leadership of the Arizona Community Action...

CA Emergency food bank assists residents
Orland Press Register - Orland, CA
Glenn County Community Action Agency’s Food Bank, tucked behind the Human Resource Agency’s offices in Willows, is manned by part-time employee Jack Kennedy...

Agency assists in weatherizing homes
Orland Press Register - Orland, CA,
If your windows are leaking and your doors are drafty, help could be available through the Glenn County Community Action...

GA Macon announces new program to help improve home energy efficiency
Macon Telegraph - Macon, GA
The community action agency will also install an energy conservation kit that includes compact florescent light bulbs, smoke alarm, carbon monoxide detector...

IA Local optometrists, volunteers team up with the...
Muscatine Journal - Muscatine, IA
...Steering Committee for the Muscatine Center for Social Action conducted a needs assessment of area social service agencies such as Community Action...

IL Scholarships available through Community Action organization
Canton Daily Ledger - Canton, IL
Community Action Partnership of Central Illinois, formerly CIEDC, which served low-income and senior populations of Fulton and five other counties...

IN Business people
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne, IN
...and Zenovia Pearson, a northwest area advocate with the city of Fort Wayne, were added to the Community Action Northeast Indiana board of directors...

Terre Haute a ‘real high area for power theft,’ Duke Energy...
Terre Haute Tribune Star - Terre Haute, IN
Duke Energy partners with agencies such as the Western Indiana Community Action Agency Inc. to help people pay bills. In 2008, the company provided $780000...

KY TACK receiving stimulus for BRAC
News Enterprise - Elizabethtown, KY
More details are expected to be released today when Beshear speaks at 3:30 pm at the Central Kentucky Community Action office on North Dixie Highway...

17 percent water rate increase goes before the public
Kentucky.com - Lexington, KY
It was negotiated by representatives of the utility, the state attorney general's office, which represents customers; the Community Action Council...

MI State Housing Authority Announces MSHDA and Federal Grants to Help...
PR Newswire - New York, NY
Charlotte Women's Resource Center of Northern Michigan, Inc. Petoskey Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency Bessemer Domestic Violence Escape (DOVE)...

Weatherization Stimulus
UpperMichigansSource.com powered by WLUC TV6 - Marquette, Michigan
The Northwest Michigan Community Action Agency covers ten counties: Roscommon, Wexford, Missaukee, Kalkaska, Grand Traverse, Benzie, Leelanau, Antrim...

Developer to save Park Theatre, create Lincoln Park Lofts
Metromode Media - Detroit, MI
Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency now plans to turn the historic downriver landmark into retail space and about 40 loft apartments...

Sen. Carl Levin meets with Community Action Agency officials in...
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com - Jackson, MI
Fewer families signed up for an all-day federal child-care program at the Jackson Community Action Agency this...

Kalamazoo County lands nearly $9 million in federal stimulus money
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com - Kalamazoo, MI
The Community Action Bureau's weatherization program is expected to receive $4.4 million to spend on a projected 628 homes in three years...

Program offers free help for low-income tax filers in Jackson County
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com - Jackson, MI
Call the Community Action Agency at 784-4800

Today and Wednesday
Traverse City Record Eagle - Traverse City, MI
Northwest Michigan Community Action Agency free homebuyer education classes; 6-9 pm at the agency office at 3963 Three Mile Road, Traverse City...

Millions available for home weatherization
Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com - Muskegon, MI
The US Department of Energy has given the Muskegon-Oceana Community Action Partnership, Inc. $4.7 million to weatherize up to 725 owner-occupied houses in...

MN Tax time is learning time for these students
Marshall Independent - Marshall, MN
Thomas teaches accounting at Southwest Minnesota State University and "volunteered" his students to help prepare taxes for Western Community Action's tax...

MO Burris: City doing homework on stimulus funds
News-Leader.com - Springfield, MO
City staff recently sat down with their counterparts from City Utilities, Greene County and Ozarks Area Community Action Corporation to review the stimulus...

NC Have you thought of ways that our community can go green?
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville, NC
If so, attend tonight’s Sustainable Sandhills Cumberland County Community Action Team meeting from 6:30 to 8 at the PWC Operations Center...

NE Nelson: $7 million in stimulus funds for employment services...
McCook Daily Gazette - McCook, NE
"I urge the Community Action Agencies to use the stimulus money to focus on employment and retention," said Nelson. "This is the one major way these funds...

NJ North Hudson Community Action Corp. to get $1M in stimulus funds
NJ.com - NJ
The North Hudson Community Action Corp. will receive $1 million in federal stimulus funds The North Hudson...

NM Stimulus $$$ Giving NM a "Three-fer" Through Weatherization...
Public News Service - Boulder, CO
Kira Jones with Community Action New Mexico says the stimulus funds will basically double the amount that can be spent on weatherization for a single home...

NY Use caution instead of credit cards
Oneonta Daily Star - Oneonta, NY
...1500 young people _ in Otsego County without health insurance, according to a recent report from the New York State Community Action Association...

OH James Cummings: Senator to speak on state poverty
Dayton Daily News - Dayton, OH,
Miller will be in Dayton in Thursday as the guest speaker for the Community Action Partnership of Greater Dayton’s annual meeting and plans to speak about...

Collections benefit local organizations
Chillicothe Gazette - Chillicothe, OH
The needs of three local agencies - Goodwill Industries of South Central Ohio, Ross County Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Community Action's men's...

LCCAA merges with western counterpart
Chronicle-Telegram - Elyria, OH
The Lorain County Community Action Agency and Erie-Huron Community Action Commission announced Wednesday a plan to merge into one agency...

Weatherization info for would-be contractors
Canton Repository - Canton, OH
Stark County Community Action Agency Home Weatherization Assistance Program (HWAP) will hold an information meeting at 8:30 am Friday at 3013 Mahoning Rd...

OK April is National Fair Housing Month
Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise - Bartlesville, OK
Community Action Resource and Development is a non-profit organization that provides the following housing programs in Mayes, Nowata, Rogers, Wagoner…

OR Tree debris turned into firewood for Oregon needy
KTVZ - Bend, OR
Distribution of the firewood is handled through Clatsop Community Action, which provides services for low-income people. The agency has a list of 174...

PA Food bank help line gets longer
Leader Times - Kittanning, PA
The distribution center that Woodside runs at the Ford Memorial United Methodist Church is one of many associated with the county Community Action Agency...

UT UHP makes big food donation to food bank
KSL-TV - Salt Lake City, UT
The troopers plan to donate all of it the, Community Action Services Center which will distribute it to the county's needy…

VA ONANCOCK: Hospice sets support group for children
Bethany Beach Wave - Bethany Beach, DE
Hospice and Palliative Care of the Eastern Shore and Eastern Shore Area Agency on Aging and Community Action Agency realize that the weeks and...

Weatherization aid will benefit area
Martinsville Bulletin - Martinsville, VA
Saunders is the executive director of Pittsylvania County Community Action Inc., which serves Martinsville, Danville and Henry and Pittsylvania counties...

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