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AZ Pulliam Trust shifts focus to human services
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte, NC
...the trust’s emergency funding initiative is infusing an additional $500000 into 17 Valley Community Action Programs providing housing assistance...
 

CA Editorial: People in need a growing concern
Enterprise-Record - Chico,CA,USA
Groups such as the Chico Community Shelter Partnership, the Community Action Agency, the Jesus Center, the Salvation Army, churches and many volunteers with...
 

Mad Hot Community Action Partnership
Santa Rosa Press Democrat - Santa Rosa,CA,USA
Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County in Santa Rosa has a fun way to thank its supporters. On Sunday it will host a private showing of the...
 

Lemoore at a glance
Lemoore Advance - Lemoore, CA
The community organization benefiting from the breakfast this month will be The Kings Community Action Organization emergency food program...

 

Riverside County program brings poor, allies together
Press-Enterprise - Riverside, CA
The Community Action Partnership, the county's anti-poverty agency, has had eight families graduate and leave poverty since the program took shape in 2007...

 

FL Groups Offer to "Rout Out" Poverty with Federal Stimulus Money
Public News Service - Boulder, CO
As Florida legislators deliberate what to cut from the state budget, community action workers are travelling to Tallahassee to tell them...
 

IA Argument for eliminating business tax credits rather than making budget cuts
Radio Iowa - Des Moines, IA
Lana Ross of the Iowa Community Action Association says that amounts to half a billion dollars in taxes that could or should have been paid to the state...

 

Energy assistance deadline extended
Burlington Hawk Eye - Burlington, IA
In normal years, the deadline at Community Action of Southeast Iowa is mid-April. "I think it's the first time the program has been extended," Wilson said. ...
 
LA St. Martin Parish Family Empowerment Expo to be held Sat., April 4th
The Daily Advertiser - Lafayette, LA
This event will be the first of it's kind in St. Martin Parish and will coincide with the annual SMILE Community Action Head Start Easter Parade...

 

MA Pennies for Poverty food drive for local pantries
The Daily News of Newburyport - Newburyport, MA
...Services of Newburyport, the Salvation Army in Newburyport, Pettengill House in Salisbury, Our Neighbors' Table in Amesbury and Community Action...
 

MD Help on energy bills
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore, MD
The Community Action Agency will hold an Energy Assistance Expo from 10 am to 3 pm Thursday at Resurrection of Our Lord Roman Catholic Church...

 

MI Home weatherization workshop set
Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com - Muskegon, MI
The Ottawa County Community Action Agency provides a weatherization program for eligible households in Ottawa County. Those who meet the program's income...

 

CAA gets $6.3 million from Stimulus Act
Coldwater Daily Reporter - Coldwater, MI
The Community Action Agency (CAA) of South Central Michigan will be receiving $6.3 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
 
Utility bill aid boosted
The Hillsdale Daily News - Hillsdale, MI
The Community Action Agency will receive $5.5 million through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to provide weatherization services to homeowners...

 

Stimulus funds will help Saginaw County protect homes from elements
The Saginaw News - MLive.com - Saginaw, MI
The Saginaw County Community Action Committee expects to receive more than $6.8 million to weatherize or improve energy...
 

MN Food stamp changes: A different kind of stimulus
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis, MN
...take some pressure off food shelves, said JoAnn Tesar, of the Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties, an anti-poverty agency...

 

MO Homelessness touches county
Chillicothe Constitution Tribune - Chillicothe, MO
Green Hills Community Action Agency, along with a handful of volunteers, participated in the Point in Time count of homeless people in the...
 

District awarded funds from FEMA, voluntary agencies urged to apply
Gallatin North Missourian - Gallatin, MO
... Pattonsburg, Putnam and Sullivan Senior Centers, Milan Interfaith Food Pantry, Green Hills Community Action Agency County Offices of Caldwell, Daviess...

 

NECAC and McCaskill
Hannibal.net - Hannibal, MO
NECAC and mccaskill North East Community Action Corporation President Don Patrick, left, and Board Chairman Lyndon Bode recently met in Washington, DC...
 

NH Weatherization funds on way
Seacoastonline.com - Portsmouth, NH
"This is great, exciting stuff," said Charlie Wolfe, the weatherization manager for the Dover-based Strafford County Community Action Committee...
 

NH to get $4.6 million for homeless prevention
Eagle Tribune - North Andover, MA
"It is perfectly timed," said Greg Schneider, executive administrator of the Rockingham Community Action Program. The organization provides health, food...

 

NH Head Start takes applications
Eagle Tribune - North Andover, MA
Rockingham Community Action Head Start is currently accepting applications at all centers for the 2009-2010 school year. Head Start is a federally funded...
 
NJ As the recession lingers, a job fair in Union City
The Jersey Journal - Jersey City, NJ
Organized by the North Hudson Community Action Corporation (NHCAC), a social services non-profit, the fair was held in the cafeteria of the Jose Marti...
 

NY Poverty report confirms rising numbers
Schenectady Gazette - Schenectady,NY,USA
The New York State Community Action Association, which wrote the report, hopes that it will serve as a resource for community-based organizations...

 

Group releases poverty study
Capital News 9 - Albany, NY
The New York State Community Action Association just released a study which found that 40 percent of children in Albany County live below the poverty level...
 
OH A heap of insulation
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
Ken Quinn, left, and Chris Young, with Impact Community Action Agency, prepare an attic for insulation. The state expects to receive $267 million...
 

Computers donated
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron, OH
Summit County Executive Russ Pry has donated eight surplus computer units, monitors and keyboards to Head Start...Head Start is one of the programs operated by Akron Summit Community Action Inc. AKRON.: A new coalition is working to promote locally grown food production...
 

Weatherizing homes to create thousands of jobs - if stimulus works
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus, OH
"We want them to go through Ohio as deeply and as widely as possible," said Phil Cole of the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies...

 

Money remains to keep heat on
Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati, OH
Robin Avant, heating assistance manager with the Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency, said she still has about $300000 available despite...
 

Commissioners name ‘Cover the Uninsured Week’
Daily Sentinel - Pomeroy, OH
Gallia-Meigs Community Action Agency will host a “Cover the Uninsured” enrollment event Thursday at the Help Me Grow office in downtown...
 

Erie-Huron CAC to merge with Lorain
Sandusky Register - OH, USA
Erie-Huron Community Action Commission in Sandusky is looking to combine its $4.6 million operation with Lorain County Community Action Agency...
 

CAA gets health center funds
SalemNews.net - Salem,OH
One of the 32 centers receiving funds was the Columbiana County Community Action Agency. The agency received $246107.

 

Community centers to receive federal funds
Huntington Herald Dispatch - Huntington, WV
The Ironton-Lawrence County Community Action Organization will receive $218680 to hire a new full-time pediatrician, a diabetic educator, a nurse...

 

OR Program helps those with utility shut-off notices get immediate help
NRToday.com - Roseburg, OR
In response, Roseburg-based Umpqua Community Action Network has set up a system where those with final shut-off notices can get immediate help...
 

KCBY Can Do! Food Drive
KCBY.com 11 - North Bend, OR
Oregon Coast Community Action (ORCCA) was founded as part of the Community Action movement in 1965 during the War on Poverty. Our agency works with the...
 

PA Housing project makes progress
Uniontown Herald Standard - Uniontown, PA
The Community Action Agency of Fayette County and PIRHL Development of Ohio formed Uniontown Family Homes and used tax credits to finance the $6.5 million...

 

Erie Times-News - Erie, PA

It is taking referrals from housing counselors at designated social services agencies, such as St. Martin Center and the Greater Erie Community Action Committee in Erie and the Warren-Forest Counties Economic Opportunity Counsel in Warren...

 

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Pittsburgh, PA

The event is a fundraiser for Community Action Southwest, a nonprofit, anti-poverty agency that was organized more than 40 years ago to help low-income individuals in Washington and Greene counties...
 

UT The Yarrow gives marrow to food bank
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City, UT
That's because the rock quintet has taken the unprofitable yet admirable pledge to donate all proceeds to Provo's Community Action Services and Food Bank...

 

For local band The Yarrow, music really does feed the soul
Daily Herald - Provo, UT
The Yarrow, a self-described "eclectic independent rock group," donates every cent it earns to Community Action Services and Food Bank in Provo...

 

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