CAAs in the News - August 3, 2009 through August 9, 2009 (MS Word)
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AL Weatherization becoming popular in the Shoals
WAFF - Huntsville, AL
For the past 30 years, Community Action Agency of Northwest Alabama in Florence has helped families cut their energy bills. With new stimulus money...
Weatherizing funds help local residents
Times Daily - Florence, AL
Butch Gray, of the Community Action Agency, installs a door sealer to do an air flow assessment at an older home in Russellville while doing a...
AZ SRP customers can receive more money to weatherize
AZ Central.com - Phoenix, AZ
SRP and Arizona Public Service Co. provide money to the Arizona Community Action Association, which also collects money from the Department of Energy...
CA Letter: University helps at Esplanade House
Enterprise-Record - Chico, CA
As students are coming back into town and moving into their dorms and apartments for the new school year, Community Action Agency's Esplanade House Program...
DE New DCF fund supports African-American causes
Cape Gazette - Lewes, DE
...Bernice M. Edwards, executive director of the First State Community Action Agency and African-American Empowerment Fund of Delaware Sussex County lead...
Photo gallery: First State Community Action Agency's End-of-Summer...
Sussex Countian - Georgetown, DE
Above, scenes from First State Community Action Agency's End-of-Summer Celebration, held July 30 at Georgetown Elementary School...
FL Brevard County Community Action Agency could help with utility...
TCPalm - Stuart, FL
The Brevard County Community Action Agency staff will be available to Barefoot Bay residents from 9:30 am to 1 pm Wednesday at Building D & E to explore...
IL George Davis: His acts of hope
Rockford Register Star - Rockford, IL
Thirty-eight years later, he heads an office that serves as a public Community Action Agency, addressing poverty through a wide variety of assistance...
IN Indiana Community Action program to use grant money to expand
Trading Markets (press release) - Jersey City, NJ
...Indiana County Community Action Program (ICCAP) will receive $200000 combined in loan and grant money to purchase property and add an office building...
Ind. faces delay in getting weatherization funds
Chicago Tribune - Chicago, IL
Also, the state is looking to give money to different groups, not just community action agencies that sign people up for weatherization assistance but...
Health insurance, shots aid offered
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne, IN
Those in need of health insurance and vaccinations are invited to an event sponsored by Parkview Hospital and Community Action of Northeast Indiana. ...
ME WATERVILLE Council overrides veto, will sell house as planned
Morning Sentinel - Waterville, ME
The city now may sell a run-down house to Kennebec Valley Community Action Program, since councilors this week overturned a...
Kennebunk Shuttle still rolling, for now
Seacoastonline.com - Portsmouth, NH
Connie Garber, transportation director for York County Community Action Corporation, said losing the $16000 in funding from Kennebunk, which residents voted...
MI English as a second language program grows
Adrian Daily Telegram - Adrian, MI
Yvonne Rogers, program manager for adult literacy at the Community Action Agency, watches as Nachio Kinugawa of Japan writes a message on the...
Baby shower benefits low-income families
Livonia Observer - Detroit, MI
The Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency's 12th Annual Community has issued an invitation to parents-to-be to attend a baby shower Thursday, Sept...
MO Parenting class focuses on Spanish speakers
St. Joseph News-Press - St. Joseph, MO
A community action group is looking forward to helping bridge a cultural gap in St. Joseph. The Los Ninos Bien Educados parenting classes kicked off with a...
General Mills makes $50000 pledge to ACE
Hannibal.net - Hannibal, MO
The decision to make this gift was made by the Community Action Council, which was made up of employees at the General Mills Hannibal Plant...
Missouri Valley Community Action Agency receives Energy Center...
The Marshall Democrat-News - Marshall, MO
4, that the DNR Energy Center has issued $346776 in Weatherization subgrant funds to Missouri Valley Community Action Agency (MVCAA), to help low income...
CU: 40% Increase in Electric Shut-Offs This Year
Ozarks First - Springfield, MO
The ripple effect; nearly 3000 more people are coming to Ozarks Community Action Corporation looking for help. "We're half spent and we still have August...
NE Help Change Young Peoples Lives by Opening Your Home
KCSR - Chadron, NE
Host Home Outreach Services is a program offered by Community Action Partnership of Western Nebraska that offers a local safe home for runaway or homeless...
NH $1M earmarked for community center in Exeter
Seacoastonline.com - Exeter, NH
...Exeter Center for the Creative Arts, Great Bay Kids Company, Richie McFarland Children's Center and Rockingham Community Action...
Heating assistance applications open for disabled, elderly, families
Eagle Tribune - North Andover, MA
Registration for fuel assistance is now available at Rockingham Community Action for the disabled, elderly and families with...
NJ Tri-County to hold a community service job fair
Vineland Daily Journal - Vineland, NJ
Tri-County Community Action Partnership will hold a community service job fair from 9 am to 3 pm, Tuesday, Aug. 11 at the Alms Center, 28 Martin Luther King...
Franklin kicks off 'Week of the People' to build community
New Brunswick Home News Tribune - New Brunswick, NJ
That's precisely the point of the fifth annual Week of the People, Isaac Dorsey, executive director of the Somerset Community Action Program, said...
NY WestCOP expands services for low-income residents, immigrants
Lower Hudson Journal news - White Plains, NY
WestCOP has always focused on providing services in specific communities through its Community Action Program centers, which coordinate services for the...
OH Community Action, fatherhood group collaborate on program for area dads
Chillicothe Gazette - Chillicothe, OH
Ross County Community Action and Ohio Commissions of Fatherhood recently worked together to conduct a program called the Fatherhood Initiative Program...
Stimulus money aids homeownerrs: Community Action plans include food co-op, new vans
Warren Tribune Chronicle - Warren, OH
Trumbull Community Action Program has received nearly $3.8 million in federal economic stimulus package dollars to improve about 430 homes across the county...
Funding soars to weatherize homes
Wilmington News Journal - Wilmington, OH
The funds were allocated for two counties because Clinton County Community Action has operated the home weatherization program in Clark County since 1987...
PA Center For Community Action To Receive $449000
WJACtv.com - Johnstown, PA
Officials at the Center for Community Action, forced to cut half their staff last week, now says they may be able to rehire their staff and make new hires...
Community Action lays off 30
Tarentum Valley News Dispatch - Tarentum, PA
The state's budget troubles continue, and Monday it caused the Armstrong County Community Action Agency to...
Governor Rendell Says PA Distributing $42 Million in Recovery...
PR-USA.net (press release)
...Human Services $2416857 Pittsburgh Community Services (City of Pittsburgh) $1863331 Armstrong County Community Action Agency $449664 County of Beaver...
TX Fans helping elderly combat high temperatures
Victoria Advocate - Victoria, TX
Drop fans off at the Victoria County Senior Citizens Center 603 E. Murray St., the Community Action Committee, 4007 Halsey St. or at the...
$2.6M grant to aid in home weatherization
San Angelo Standard Times - San Angelo, TX
The announcement Wednesday by the TDHCA also allocated $2.1 million to the Concho Valley Community Action Agency, which means households in the Concho...
$3M awarded to city, county for weatherizing homes
Corpus Christi Caller Times - Corpus Christi, TX
...of Housing and Community Affairs on Tuesday awarded $3 million in grants to the city of Corpus Christi and the Nueces County Community Action Agency...
UT Ogden council overrides mayor's budget vetoes
Deseret News - Salt Lake City, UT
There is already a contract in place for the Ogden Weber Community Action Partnership to operate the community center, and it has been doing so for a month...
VA $2.3 million allocated for weatherization of homes in our area
Martinsville Daily - Martinsville, VA
Stimulus funds secured by the Pittsylvania County Community Action group is designed to save families in our area money on their heating and...
WV Southwestern Community Action Council the Chamber's Business of the Week
Huntington Herald Dispatch - Huntington, WV
Southwestern Community Action Council is the Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce Business of the Week for the week of Aug. 3, 2009...
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