CAAs in the News - June 15, 2009 through June 21, 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.

CA County coffers force another hit upon local nonprofits
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose, CA
Having been out of work because of health issues, she turned to the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County Inc. for help paying rent...

DC Obama Administration Delivers More than $453 Million for Weatherization Programs in 15 States
RealEstateRama - Washington, DC
California ($74324424 awarded today) will leverage a network of over 50 non-profits, local governments, and community action associations to perform...

IN 'Cool' aid campaign under way
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne, IN
The Salvation Army program begins as other northeast Indiana agencies, including Community Action of Northeast Indiana, have launched summer...

KS Back-to-School Fair registration opens
KTKA.com - Topeka, KS
Community Action Inc. is already thinking about it. They've started registering children in need for their back-to-school fair...

KY Can't afford an air conditioner? Help is here
WHAS 11.com (subscription) - Louisville, KY
You can call or visit a Louisville Metro Community Action Partnership to get a medical form for your doctor to fill out. Once you have your form...

MD $1.4 Million in stimulus funds will expand weatherization program
WTOP - Washington, DC
The Frederick Community Action Agency will use more than $1.4 million in federal stimulus funds to make lower-income households more energy-efficient...

ME County oks weatherization help
Central Maine Morning Sentinel - Augusta, ME
The move was in reaction to a need by Western Maine Community Action to raise matching funds for a $160000 weatherization and training grant it recently...

Funds for homes to get families they need
Kennebec Journal - Augusta, ME
It would be easy to miss the importance of the new Neighborhood Stabilization Program administered by the Kennebec Valley Community Action Program...

MI Unemployment 101: A guide
The Detroit News - Detroit, MI
"Ask early," advised Jennifer D. Lepard, chief operating officer of Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency. "You're not the first one going through this...

Head Start program gets federal grant
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron, MI
Candice Miller, R-Harrison Township, announced Thursday the Community Action Agency of St. Clair County has been awarded a $189408 grant for its Head Start...

Leaders: Jobless numbers will be grim
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron, MI
Garcia said the United Way, Community Action Agency and Department of Human Services have seen an increase in requests for services in recent months...

Former Michigan AFL-CIO president Garrison dies
WZZM - Grand Rapids, MI
The Lansing resident was a former United Auto Workers member and was executive director of the UAW Community Action Program from 1982-86...

bizweek Calendar: 06/16/2009
Traverse City Record Eagle - Traverse City, MI
Financial Fitness Workshop, through the Northwest Michigan Community Action Agency; "Staying Financially Fit" is the program from 6 - 9 pm at the agency...

MN MN nonprofits facing more needs, fewer resources
KXMC - Minot, ND
The Heartland Community Action Agency in Willmar just saw a classic example of need. The group got a $20000 grant to help people in danger of being evicted...

A windfall for weatherization
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis, MN
"Everyone is getting ready to go,'' said Cindy Webster, energy program director for Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington counties...

MO Local CMCA agency needs publc input to help area poor
Mexico Ledger - Mexico, MO
Once every three years, the Central Missouri Community Action network puts out a survey, asking for the public's input on how well the agency is meeting the...

Poverty Summit encourages Missourians to 'believe the possible'
Word and Way - Jefferson City, MO
"When people from all walks of life join together, truly anything is possible," said Dave Leyland, executive director of the Community Action Partnership of...

NC Federal funds available to boost weatherization
Spring Hope Enterprise - Spring Hope, NC
Reginald Speight, chief executive officer of Martin County Community Action, told about 30 contractors in Rocky Mount last Thursday that they will have to...

ND Safety City
Dickinson Press - Dickinson, ND
Approximately 100 children ages 4-8 are learning safety education in the Safety City program, sponsored by the Community Action and Roughrider Kiwanis...

Helping Hands
Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck - Bismarck, ND
Cory says he applied to "Community Action" in the midst of his overwhelming medical bills. They helped out with most of the major building supplies...

NH Waterfront property gets new view
Concord Monitor - Concord, NH
Thanks to the efforts of the Community Action Program in Belknap and Merrimack Counties and the nonprofit organization There's No Place Like Home...

Community need inspired Richie McFarland Children's Center
Exeter News-Letter - Exeter, NH
Woven together with Exeter Center for Creative Arts, Great Bay Kids Company, Rockingham Community Action, Seacare Health Services, and the YMCA we are...

NM Kellogg awards $300000 to NM groups
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte, NC
The WK Kellogg Foundation has awarded $100000 each to ACCIÓN New Mexico Arizona Colorado, Community Action New Mexico and New Mexico Community Capital...

NY Groton Town Talk: Special needs support group begins
Ithaca Journal - Ithaca, NY
The first Parents of Special Needs Children (POSNC) Support Group meeting will take place from 5:30 to 7 pm today at the Tompkins Community Action/ Head...

OH Agency hopes to help households stay cool this summer
Lancaster Eagle Gazette - Lancaster, OH
At least that's the number of people Barb Miller of Lancaster-Fairfield Community Action hopes to assist through the agency's annual HEAP Summer Crisis...

Nonprofit hiring 30 extra workers
Dayton Business Journal - Dayton, OH
Vanessa Curtis was in a desperate situation when she called the Community Action Partnership. The Dayton homeowner struggled with rising energy costs and...

Community Action recognizes Head Start supporters
Wilmington News Journal, OH - Wilmington, OH
The Clinton County Community Action Head Start held a recognition luncheon at Damon's recently to honor community people and organizations that made a...

Summer time is reading time
Marion Star - Marion, OH
The Ohio Heartland Community Action Commission's summer reading program taking place at Taft Elementary School helps serve as a reminder to Welch and other...

Three Northeast Ohio community foundations award grants to health, civic, social organizations
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - Cleveland, OH
Recipients included the Battered Women's Shelter, which received $3000 for a financial empowerment project, and Community Action of Wayne-Medina...

Program can help pay summer power bills
Dayton Daily News - Dayton, OH
For more information, contact the Ohio Department of Development at (800) 282-0880; the Community Action Partnership in Dayton at (937) 341-5000...

OK Programs get aid
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City, OK
The Little Dixie Community Action Agency in Hugo will get $435298 and Tulsa Technology School District No. 18 will get $653904.

OR Community Relief Fund provides assistance to Washington County families
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com - Hillsboro, OR
Within days of receiving a disbursement of $50400 from the Community Relief Fund in early May, Community Action in Washington County was able to provide 104...

Winston approves budget, funding for U-Trans uncertain
NRToday.com - Roseburg, OR
United Community Action Network Transportation Services Manager Toby Notenboom addressed the council at Monday's meeting, requesting that the city agree to...

PA The Heron's Nest: A salute to Gary Papa
Delaware County Daily Times - Primos, PA
They, and a multitude of others such as the Salvation Army, Community Action Agency, and CityTeam Ministries, are the glue that holds our increasingly...

Youth clean up this town
Sharon Herald - Sharon, PA
Dan Dragiceviz of Community Action Partnership said what was accomplished Saturday built on a similar event last fall, when graffiti was first painted over...

SD SD gets $9M in stimulus funds to weatherize homes
Forbes - New York, NY
"The average household will save up to 15 to 20 percent of their heat bills," said Cindy Dannenbring, executive director of the Inter-Lakes Community Action...

TN Commodity distribution held on June 17
The Tennessean - Nashville, TN
Mid-Cumberland Community Action Agency USDA Commodity distribution will be held on Wednesday, June 17 between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm at the Fairview Recreation...

TX Seeking people to serve
Marshall News Messenger - Marshall, TX
Ms. Hicks said many people think they don't qualify for programs Community Action offers, but she assures the agency can help just about anyone...

UT Utah nonprofits fear Capitol rental fees could bust their budgets
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City, UT
It's the people's house and we paid taxes to build it," said Melissa Smith of the Community Action Partnership of Utah. Linda Hilton, director of the...

Drug testing for welfare recipients debated
Deseret News - Salt Lake City, UT
According to Community Action Partnership Utah (CAPU), a network of advocates who coordinate services and help people in poverty, there are about 6500...

Ogden's City Council funds community center; mayor hints he's not...
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City, UT
Godfrey has signed a contract with the nonprofit Ogden/Weber Community Action Partnership Inc. to run Marshall White, in an apparent attempt to rid the city...

Ogden Council fully funds Marshall White Community Center, expects...
Deseret News - Salt Lake City, UT
The Ogden-Weber Community Action Partnership has said it will keep the pool open when it begins managing the center in July, but once it takes over the...

VA Agency on Aging, Hospice offer hurricane program
Bethany Beach Wave - Bethany Beach, DE
That's why the Eastern Shore Area Agency on Aging and Community Action Agency and Hospice & Palliative Care of the Eastern Shore, will present...

WI Community Action sets up business loan fund
Wisconsin Dells Events - Wisconsin Dells, WI
By Anna Krejci, Dells Events In the aftermath of the 2008 floods, the US Department of Agriculture and Central Wisconsin Community Action Council...

New CEO for Community Action Agency
Journal Times - Racine, WI
Seven months after the abrupt departure of its former CEO, the Racine/Kenosha Community Action Agency has hired a replacement...

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