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DC Stimulus bill doubts: Critics say prospect of jobs from home...
Chicago Tribune - Chicago, IL
The National Community Action Foundation, a group that advocates for low-income families, estimates that 46000 jobs would be created nationwide...

 
FL Child care shift results in layoffs
Bradenton Herald - Bradenton, FL
Manatee Community Action Agency announced a staff restructuring Friday that includes 20 positions...

 

PSC honors community leaders
Tallahassee Democrat - Tallahassee, FL
Ernest Ferrell, Executive Vice President of the Tallahassee Urban League Leslie Gay, Executive director of the Florida Association for Community Action Inc...

 

KS People seeking tax help early
KSNT - Topeka, KS
Schimmel works at Community Action in Southeast Topeka. Volunteers from the AARP are there Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 9am until 3pm to help with taxes...

 

MA Cape Cod's social agencies told to team up
Cape Cod Times - Hyannis, MA
...and social service providers during an annual forum on the proposed state budget at the Community Action Committee of the Cape and Islands (CACCI)...

 

Low income workers get free tax preparation services
Sandwich Broadsider - MA
In partnership with the IRS, the Community Action Committee of Cape Cod & Islands has begun offering its free tax preparation service for low income workers...

 

MI Demolition Complete On Thayer Dairy, Site Prep Continues For Senior Complex
Clare County Review – Clare, MI
The corner of Fourth and Beech Street in downtown Clare looks remarkably different now that the old Thayer Dairy/Mid Michigan Community Action (MMCAA)...

 

Community Action Agency Web site improved
Grand Haven Tribune - Grand Haven, MI
...along with other informative files. The Ottawa County Community Action Agency is a housing-related nonprofit agency that helps county residents.

 

The Morning Sun News - Mt. Pleasant, MI
The City of Clare has been awarded the 2008 Partnership Appreciation Award by Mid Michigan Community Action in recognition of continued support and dedication to the community. The City of Clare also received a...
 
MN New office for Action Council
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis, MN
The nonprofit Community Action Council has opened a new office and gathering place on Hwy. 13 in Burnsville. The old administrative office in Lakeville will...

 

MO Local Woman Fights Poverty
Ozarks First - Springfield, MO
This moment convinced her to seek help from OACAC, the Ozarks Area Community Action Corporation. "They seen since I was working hard to achieve my goals…

 

NECAC gets more federal money for foreclosure counseling
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis, MO
The nonprofit North East Community Action Corp. is getting an additional $244000 in federal grants to continue its counseling program for homeowners in...

 

GHCAA offers class to help people become active community members
Gallatin North Missourian - Gallatin, MO
Green Hills Community Action Agency is offering a class in Daviess County to help low-income people become active community members and even take leadership...

 

MT Job-assistance agency caseload on the rise
Daily Inter Lake - Kalispell, MT
There's an air of urgency, a frantic feeling rising from the cubicles at the Community Action Partnership of...

 

NC Having a healthy heart on Valentine's Day

WWAY NewsChannel 3 - Wilmington, NC
“Take it back to their daily lives, eat better, rest more, reduce the stress, exercise and by all means get comfortable with your doctor and have a dialogue,” said Cynthia Brown, the executive director of NHC Community Action...

 

ND Bremer provides $73000 to help community organizations
Minot Daily News - Minot, ND
The money will help two community organizations that applied for emergency fund grants. Community Action Opportunities will use its share to provide...

 

NH Fuel-aid drive raises $40455
Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth, NH
Funds raised through the Gift of Warmth campaign are being distributed through the Rockingham Community Action fuel-assistance program...

 

NJ County foreclosure rate up 126 percent
The Bridgeton News - NJ.com - Bridgeton, NJ
"We've gone from six calls per day to 15 a day, going from December to January," said John Schmidtt, at Tri-County Community Action Partnership...

 

Grant training pays off for Community Action Partnership of Warren County
Warren Reporter - Warren, NJ
Dr. Janet Bloodgood from Community Action Partnership (CAP) of Warren County in January attended the Drug Free...

 

NM Nonprofits can be ‘political’ in a perfectly legal way
The New Mexico Independent - Albuquerque, NM
Community Action New Mexico shares this belief with many other nonprofits, including the National Rifle Association, Mothers Against Drunk Driving and even...

 

NY Guest view: Community Action expands outreach
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica, NY
It seems that whenever Mohawk Valley Community Action takes on a new role in Utica, the coffee shop conversation turns to that “new” agency in the city...
 

Newburgh community agency hires Long as deputy director
Times Herald-Record - Middletown, NY
Debra Long has been hired as deputy director…

 

Hope for Inner City Youth
13WHAM-TV - Rochester, NY
"Milestones Youth Intervention Program" meets about four days a week at the Action for a Better Community building on Stone Street...

 

OH Groups aim to help offset high cost of heating bills
Lancaster Eagle Gazette - Lancaster, OH
AEP Ohio and the Ohio Department of Development established a "Crisis Emergency Fund" through 36 community action agencies in Ohio to help more people stay...

 

Meigs, Gallia awarded emergency funding
Daily Sentinel - Pomeroy, OH
Gallia and Meigs Community Action Agency has been chosen to receive $46353 ($23543 Gallia, $22810 Meigs) to supplement targeted...

 

Medicaid workshop
Youngstown Vindicator - Youngstown, OH
19 at Trumbull Community Action Program auditorium, 1230 Palmyra Road. RSVP to FCFC at (330) 399-3412. If there is no answer, leave a message…

 

County readies anti-poverty agenda
Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati, OH
This process through the state's community action agencies does not deal with federal economic stimulus money that might come into Ohio...

 

OK Free tax help expands sites
Tulsa World - Tulsa, OK
Lynn Hathhorn (left) goes over paperwork with volunteer Karen Yerian at Community Action Project's free tax preparation site at 4606 S. Garnett Road...

 

OR The new face of poverty
Coos Bay World - Coos Bay, OR
They turned to Oregon Coast Community Action in hopes of housing assistance. They quickly discovered they were not alone. “It was so full, you can’t get in...

 

PA Jeannette builds foundation for home ownership
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh, PA
Westmoreland Community Action, a partner with the city on the project, owns 34 of the 44 homes on the block that are being torn down for the development…

 

Families exhausting heat aid
The Tribune-Democrat – Johnstown, PA
Somerset County agencies are facing the same onslaught of requests for help, Community Services Director Lisa Beam said from Community Action Partnership of Somerset County.

 

Valley homes already getting greener
The Morning Call - Allentown, PA
Sleuthing for clues of a thermal jailbreak has become the job of Otis McNeil, a Bethlehem native who founded the company on a $19,700 loan from the Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley.

 

Tax-preparation help available for some
The Patriot-News - Harrisburg, PA
For others, there are income guidelines to qualify for free tax-preparation assistance. For more information, call the Community Action Coalition…

 

CAP child care gets high rating
Intelligencer Journal - Lancaster, PA
Every day, Community Action Program of Lancaster County's child care center provides daycare to 80 preschool children from low-income families. And the care and education those children receive at the nonprofit center on South Queen Street is becoming the best among the county's child care centers licensed by the state Department of Public Welfare…

 

Food Basket Official Airs Financial Woes
The Fulton County News - McConnellsburg, PA
Garland, who was instructed to speak with Center for Community Action director Ann Foor regarding help with funding, stated he expects an increase in clients at the Food Basket given the current state of the economy.

 

In Irvona Borough
The Progress – Clearfield, PA
Mr. Patterson also noted that Connie Harris of CPCA will be in the borough building the second Wednesday of each month to assist people with food stamps, health services, heating assistance and other items. To schedule an appointment for either Community Action staff member…

 

New Choices-New Options aims to move people into workforce
The Punxsutawney Spirit - Punxsutawney, PA
Community Action Inc.’s New Choices-New Options program aims to help people who are unemployed, underemployed or just having a hard time making the transition into today’s job market.

 

WA Double the Money for Heating Help

KEPR CBS 19 - Pasco, WA
CAC (Community Action Committee) helps turn on heat for poor families, and they got a last minute cash boost. So now a program that usually has to turn people away is trying to get more people to sign up. ...

 

WV Job Club Helps People Get Back on Their Feet
WBOY-TV - Clarksburg, WV
CLARKSBURG -- Lolita Griffin works for a Community Action group called the Job Club. Griffin says that the the Job Club has been around for more than 30...

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