CAAs in the News - June 22, 2009 through June 28, 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.

GA Stimulus money to help make homes more energy efficient
Macon Telegraph - Macon, GA
In much of the Middle Georgia area, including Bibb and Houston counties, that's the Middle Georgia Community Action Agency, which can be reached at (478)...

IA How you can help
Quad City Times - Davenport, IA
Donations are needed at local homeless shelters and community action agencies to help people cope with the heat. Salvation Army: New window box fans needed...

Questions raised about healthcare reform plan
Marshalltown Times Republican - Marshalltown, IA
Arlene McAtee, director of the Mid Iowa Community Action Agency, said the current system has a major flaw. "There's no inherent logic to tying people's...

IN No help for those who need to cool down
WTHI - Terre Haute, IN
In the past, those needing energy assistance could turn to the Western Indiana Community Action Agency. Last year, they handed out more than 200 fans to...

KY Man living in truck gets a new home
WYMT - Hazard, KY
Officials with the KCEOC Community Action Agency in Knox County say the most important thing is for people to ask for help when they are in these kind of...

LA Millions in federal money for roads, drainage
Daily Comet - Thibodaux, LA
Lafourche Community Action, a nonprofit group, will receive a $684,963 grant for weatherization, energy-efficiency and health-and-safety programs…

MA Community Action: 33 GEDs awarded through WCAC programs
Worcester Telegram - Worcester, MA
Worcester Community Action Council held a ceremony last night at Tuckerman Hall for 33 people who earned GEDs through WCAC programs...

Shop Talk: Jill C. Dagilis, Worcester Community Action Council
Worcester Business Journal - Worcester, MA
...City of Worcester who held a number of management positions at City Hall, became executive director of the Worcester Community Action Council in 2006...

MD Taylor brings civil, customer service
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore, MD
He's the community engagement coordinator for the Anne Arundel Community Action Agency, a branch of a government organization that works to alleviate...

Summer need expands free lunch program
Frederick News Post (subscription) - Frederick, MD
The Frederick Community Action Agency has offered the free hot lunches for seven years. This year, food and nutrition coordinator Sarah McAleavy expects...

ME Local family celebrates new home
SunJournal.com - Lewiston, ME
Orman Whitcomb from USDA Rural Development and Diane Hayley from Western Maine Community Action present a basket of seeds to Kristen Phelps Monday in...

Family celebrates new home
Central Maine Morning Sentinel - Augusta, ME
"My daughter saw an ad about this assisted home ownership program, and she decided to apply through the Western Maine Community Action Program," Savage said...

Barbara Bush Foundation's Maine Family Literacy Initiative Awards...
MarketWatch - New York, NY
...a joint project of two neighboring school districts (MSAD #32 and #45) and Aroostook County Community Action designed to provide unwed mothers and...

MI Jackson CAA awarded $225000 to acquire and rehab abandoned or...
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com - Jackson, MI
The Community Action Agency in Jackson has been awarded a $225000 state grant to acquire and rehabilitate three...

MN Renters, expect less credit next year
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth, MN
...or he could take something away from very low-income people,” said Angie Miller, executive director of Community Action Duluth, a low-income advocacy...

Duluth mayor joins door knockers launching energy-efficiency campaign
Duluth News Tribune (free registration) - Duluth, MN
Today is the first day of the Green Duluth Team door-to-door campaign sponsored by Duluth Youth Employment Service and Community Action Duluth...

MO Tax assistance help in greater demand
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia, MO
Central Missouri Community Action saw a 14 percent increase in demand for its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program this year. The program allows low- to...

NE Goldenrod receives grant
Fremont Tribune - Fremont, NE
Goldenrod Hills Community Action's Weatherization Program received funds from the USDA Rural Development Housing Preservation Grant...

NH USDA: Summer kids' lunch program underused
Laconia Citizen - Laconia, NH
Randy Emerson, director of the Summer Food Service Program at the Community Action Program of Belknap-Merrimack Counties, said the program provides free...

NJ Tri-county group to get weatherization grant
Today's Sunbeam - NJ.com - Salem, NJ
Stephen M. Sweeney, Assemblyman John J. Burzichelli, and Assemblywoman Celeste M. Riley announced this week that Tri-County Community Action Agency has been...

NM With demand rising, food banks get help from stimulus
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte, NC
...Echo Food Bank in Farmington, the Community Pantry in Gallup and the Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico Las Cruces Food Bank...

NY Community Action: Statewide honors for two
The Daily News Online - Batavia, NY
Two employees of Community Action of Orleans and Genesee were honored with state awards at the New York State Community Action...

Youth bash July 31 at Franklyn's Field
Rome Sentinel - Rome, NY
The Family Resources Department of Mohawk Valley Community Action Agency will hold its second annual Youth Summer Bash from 10 am3 pm on Friday...

CAPC offers meals to kids
WatertownDailyTimes.com - Watertown, NY
By REBECCA MADDEN After overestimating use of the federally funded Summer Food Service Program meals last year, Community Action Planning Council of...

OH Summer program for Lorain County kids
Chronicle-Telegram - Elyria, OH
Lorain County Community Action Agency, in collaboration with the Lorain's Parks and Recreation Department, on Monday will begin holding...

Community Action assistance program starts July 1
Marion Star - Marion, OH
The Ohio Heartland Community Action Commission will offer 2009 Summer Crisis Program assistance July 1 through Aug. 31 through its Marion...

OK First-time homebuyers may be eligible for $8000 tax credit
Tulsa World - Tulsa, OK
Karen Sanders is pictured in front of her first home she purchased through the Community Action Project's First-time Home Buyer program...

OR United Way funds let families stay in homes
OregonLive.com - Portland, OR
by The Oregonian Community Action of Washington County received $50400 in May from United Way of the Columbia-Willamette for emergency assistance to...

PA 'Angry mob' bracing for budget cuts in the Valley
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown, PA
...will cut many of their community programs, Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley head Alan Jennings tried to sum up what was about to come...

Lehigh Valley activists, elected officials say state budget cuts...
The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com - Lehigh Valley, PA
"I've been doing this work for 29 years -- I've never seen anything so desperate," said Alan Jennings, executive director of the Community Action Committee...

SC Summer recreation programs do more than entertain
South Carolina Now - Pee Dee, SC
Organizer Ellen Baldwin, in conjunction with the Pee Dee Community Action Agency's Summer Feeding Program, welcomed a number of children looking for...

SD Seminar for tenants to be held
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls, SD
...East River Legal Services, the Sioux Falls Multi-Cultural Center, Sioux Falls Housing and Inter-Lakes Community Action Partnership...

Community Action Program needs our help
Hot Springs Star - Hot Springs, SD
By Mayor Don De Vries Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Although the Community Action Program (CAP) is not a city function, it involves many members of our community...

WA Longview man donates car to two-time auto theft victim
Longview Daily News - Longview, WA
Tuesday, the man went to Community Action Program, where Thomas does home health care, to talk to her boss. Her boss called Thomas and told her to go to a...

Stimulus makes local impact
The Olympian - Olympia, WA
A crew from the Community Action Council of Lewis, Mason and Thurston Counties was on the roof of Lorna Windham's northeast Olympia home…

WI Lakeshore CAP will benefit from Ant Hill Mob's Charity Ride
Herald Times Reporter - Manitowoc, WI
Proceeds of the ride will benefit the Lakeshore Community Action Program. The ride is open to the public, and all models of motorcycles are welcome...

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