CAAs in the News - July 27, 2009 through August 2, 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.

AL Local group gets money for home weatherization
Dadeville Record - Dadeville, AL
The Community Action Committee Inc. of Chambers, Coosa and Tallapoosa Counties will receive nearly $800000...

Lorene Hill is a friend and neighbor
Cullman Times Online - Cullman, AL
Since 2005, when she moved here, Hill has been an active Senior Companion with the local Community Action group, where she spends four hours a day...

AZ Meridian Bank, non-profits help kids with college
Arizona Republic - Phoenix, AZ
Dworschack says the bank made an initial investment of $25000, which was matched by the Arizona Community Foundation. The Mesa Community Action Network...

CT Residents of Tolland, Windham counties can apply for heating aid
Norwich Bulletin - Norwich, CT
Those in Windham and Tolland Counties should contact the local Access Community Action Agency office to schedule an appointment. Residents of Tolland County...

FL Agency makes pitch for community
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Daytona Beach, FL
The Northeast Florida Community Action Agency has been around for 43 years. But its history in Flagler County is considerably...

GA Cooling assistance program opens Aug. 3
Daily Citizen - Dalton, GA
The state Department of Human Resources, with which North Georgia Community Action contracts, says a cooling assistance program will open Aug...

HI Stimulus will buy low-income Hawaii families solar heaters
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu, HI
In May, DLIR awarded the Honolulu Community Action Program $1.2 million to run the program on O'ahu. Another $2.5 million was awarded to Maui Economic...

IA Food Pantry fills the need to feed
Harlan Tribune - Harlan, IA
Erin Hudson, outreach, planning, resource development director for West Central Community Action, made the decision based on the unemployment rates...

Single dad struggles to pay bills after losing job
Dubuque Telegraph Herald - Dubuque, IA
"His mom and dad have been trying to help as much as possible," said Sherri Stoffel, of Clayton County Community Action. Stoffel's agency has been assisting...

ID Funding For Weatherization
KMVT - Twin Falls, ID
Ken Robinette, executive director of South Central Community Action says “Typically what we've done in the past with the Department of Energy funding that...

IL DACC trustees to weigh expanding preschool program
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette - Champaign, IL
Dwight Lucas, the community action agency's executive director, declined to comment until the agreement is approved by the boards of DACC and his agency...

IN Weatherization: Feds leave state out in the cold
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis, IN
But homeowners who are disqualified under Indiana's plan and some community action agencies question whether politics has been involved in Indiana's choices...

KS Backpacks provided for children
Topeka Capital Journal - Topeka, KS
Community Action, of Topeka, provided approximately 2200 free backpacks for children at the Back-to-School Fair Saturday morning at the Expocentre...

KY KY Group Calls for Law to Cap Payday Loans
Public News Service
Kip Bomar of Community Action Kentucky says families need protection from the high price of predatory small loans that are so prevalent in Kentucky...

MA A champion of the needy to retire after 45 years
Boston Globe - Boston, MA
“Bob is an icon when it comes to community action and is very widely respected nationally and locally,'' said Juliette Mayers, chairwoman of the ABCD board ...

Subsidized renovations cut homeowners' fuel costs
Boston Globe - Boston, MA
Community Action Programs Intercity in Chelsea received $10.2 million and the Greater Lawrence Community Action Council received $7.6 million, according to...

Community Action Agency of Somerville seeking comment on cleanup at Head Start site
Somerville Journal - Somerville, MA
The Community Action Agency of Somerville (CAAS), the developer of the 29-33 Allen St. Head Start building (Jack Hamilton Center) will hold a public meeting...

Foreclosure prevention seminar set for July 27
Marshfield Mariner - Marshfield, MA
Invited guests include Deidre Hall, a HUD-certified home ownership counselor with Quincy Community Action Corp.; John Stephan, an assistant attorney general...

Neighbor's Kitchen needs help to survive
Worcester Telegram - Worcester, MA
One problem is reduced support from the Community Action Committee. In the past the committee has donated food received from the Worcester Country Food Bank...

MD Food Resources Inc. forced to cut back
The Herald-Mail - Hagerstown, MD
...people are being advised to acquire eligibility cards from the Community Action Council of Washington County so they can get food from area food banks...

MN Callie Sirovy receives the 2009 MVAC Community Action Achievement Award
St. James Plaindealer - St. James, MN
Callie Sirovy was selected as the 2009 Minnesota Valley Action Council's Community Action Achievement Award honoree for Watonwan County...

Vriesen honored with MVAC award
Faribault County Register - Blue Earth, MN
At the annual meeting, MVAC also honored people from the area with the Community Action Achievement and Supporter Awards. These are individuals who have...

MS Pass Head Start Center opens
SunHerald.com - Gulfport, MS
The new center will bear the name of Doyle Moffett, who has led the Gulf Coast Community Action Agency for more than 40 years. The eight new classrooms will...

ND Food pantries will accept gun killed venison
Jamestown Sun - Jamestown, ND
Administered by North Dakota Community Action Partnership, a nonprofit agency that serves low-income families across the state, SAH raises money for...

Pantries to resume giving venison to needy
Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks, ND
The North Dakota Community Action Partnership, which administers the Sportsmen Against Hunger Program, accepted only deer killed with arrows last year...

Food Pantry Accepting All Venison Donations Again
KFYR-TV - Bismarck, ND
After about a year and a half, the North Dakota Community Action Partnership has decided to again start accepting all venison donated by hunters through the...

NH Business notes
Concord Monitor - Concord, NH
Agencies receiving food during the July distribution include Belknap/Merrimack County Community Action Program, Blueberry Express Daycare...

NJ  Reminders, needed or not, that racism still thrives
Scarlet Scuttlebutt - Franklin, NJ
The members of the Somerset Community Action Program, which produces Franklin Township's annual Week of the People festival, also know better...

Franklin Week of the People to celebrate town's diversity...
Scarlet Scuttlebutt - Franklin, NJ
Somerset Community Action Program created the original concept for Week of the People 38 years ago, but it somehow fell by the wayside...

NY Officials focus on combating poverty
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica, NY
The event, hosted by Mohawk Valley Community Action Agency, was held to discuss poverty locally and ways to combat it. A draft plan to combat...

OH Kno-Ho-Co stimulus money available to bridge mortgage gap
Wooster Daily Record - Wooster, OH
For more information call the Kno-Ho-Co-Ashland Community Action, Tuesday-Friday from 8 am-4:30 pm, at 330-674-6479.

PA Shooter sets sights on new studio
Centre Daily Times - State College, PA
The Central Pennsylvania Community Action agency was recently told it will be receiving money to expand its weatherization program in Centre and Clearfield...

Cambria expecting homeless aid
The Tribune-Democrat - Johnstown, PA
“We will use the money – in cooperation with the Community Action Partnership – to assist those people on the verge of becoming homeless or who are homeless...

Butler County turns spotlight on homeless
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh, PA
The employees at a the Community Action office appear sympathetic but have no real solutions to her problems. While she tries to figure out how to stabilize...

Center For Community Action Lays Off 13 Employees
WJACtv.com - Johnstown, PA
The Center for Community Action has been providing services to folks in Huntingdon, Bedford and Fulton Counties for over 20 years, but this past week they...

RI Stimulus money being used to help youths find work
Providence Journal - Providence, RI
Local agencies — Boys & Girls Club of East Providence, Blackstone Valley Community Action, Progresso Latino and Tri-Town Community Action among them ...

SC SC residents say they can't afford Duke Energy rate hike
WCNC (subscription) - Charlotte, NC
She's asking the Carolinas Community Action assistance program to pay her utility bill. "And it's an emergency situation, because I have four small children...

TN Cooler July doesn't slow calls for utility bill help
The Tennessean _ Nashville, TN
Mid-Cumberland Community Action Agency has assisted nearly double the number of households than last year. The agency helps pay utility bills for those in...

Funds available for energy bill assistance
Murfreesboro Post - Murfreesboro, TN
Mid-Cumberland Community Action Agency is currently accepting applications for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Qualifying applicants could be...

Weatherization 'recovery' work to begin in Tenn.
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle - Clarksville, TN
The Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Action Agency and Mid-Cumberland Community Action Agency serving Wilson, Sumner, Williamson, Robertson...

UT More Utahns seek government aid
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City, UT
Karen Silver, an advocate with the anti-poverty Salt Lake Community Action Program, believes the TANF income limits exclude many Utahns...

WA Nonprofit receives stimulus grant
Mid-Columbia Tri-City Herald - Kennewick, WA
Benton Franklin Community Action Committee is one of 31 nonprofits receiving stimulus money to support training...

Community Action Council wins recovery funds
The Wenatchee World Online - Wenatchee, WA
Three Community Action agencies in North Central Washington will receive federal economic stimulus funds to help with job training...

Washington State Community Action Agencies Awarded $11.7 million in Recovery Funds
Access Washington - Olympia, WA
The recovery grants will go to non-profit community action agencies to provide emergency shelter, food and other community service programs to individuals...

Quilcene celebrates remodeled center with awards, documentary
Peninsula Daily - Port Angeles, WA
Tim Hockett, director of Olympic Community Action Programs, presented Rosen with a Linda Haskell Community Service Award, calling the project the best...

WI Struggle to find jobs lands mother in shelter
Leader-Telegram - Eau Claire, WI
Dunn said she stayed for a month at a shelter operated by Western Dairyland Community Action Agency. When her time was up there, she headed to Eau Claire...

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