CAAs in the News - July 12, 2010 through July 18, 2010 (MS Word)

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AL Alabama GED programs win $1.8M in grants
Bizjournals.com
...Hale Empowerment and Revitalization Organization ($315116), Carrolton's Pickens County Community Action Committee and Community Development Corp...

AZ Tristan Reader is this year's Goodmans 'Good Guy'
Inside Tucson Business - Tucson, AZ
Tristan Reader, co-director of Tohono O'odham Community Action, is the 2010 winner of the Goodmans Eye for the Good Guy contest and will receive a $20000...

A different type of Home Tour Gila County Community Services rebuilding lives
Arizona Silver Belt - Globe, AZ
The Gila County Community Action and Housing Services (CAHS) department is putting stimulus money to work here at home...

Utility assistance offered - Operation targets needy families
TriValley Central - Coolidge, AZ
The assistance was made possible because of a collaboration between the Community Action Human Resources Agency (CAHRA), the city of Coolidge and the...

CA Grant provides $25000 to help emergency programs
Willows Journal - Willows, CA
The money comes from "a responsive grant program," according to Christine Voppi, Deputy Director of Community Action. The organization "works with health issues and the basic fundamental things...

Riverside County opens cool centers as temperatures exceed 100 degrees
Press-Enterprise (blog) - Riverside, CA
The county's Public Health Department and Community Action Partnership urge vulnerable individuals -- children, the elderly and others -- to seek out a cool...

Letter: Esplanade House appreciates the help
Mercury-Register - Oroville, CA
Community Action Agency of Butte County, Inc. would like to extend its sincere appreciation to the Beta Chapter of Omega Nu Foundation for their generosity...

IA Computer classes aid senior citizens
Sioux City Journal - Sioux City, IA
"Try entering a brand new password," suggested Garry Coon, basic computer instructor with the Woodbury County Community Action Agency...

Guest opinion column: 18 state agencies continue to help Iowans in need
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines, IA
Forty-six years later, the Iowa Community Action Agencies are continuing to fight day after day for the Iowans who still live in poverty...

IL Agency offers help with power bills in Danville
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette (blog) - Champaign, IL
The East Central Illinois Community Action Agency is holding the Cooling Blitz on Monday and Tuesday at the David S. Palmer Arena, 100 W. Main St...

NICAA summer cooling program held July 19-30 for Jo Daviess County
East Dubuque Register - East Dubuque, IL
Northwestern Illinois Community Action Agency, serving Stephenson and Jo Daviess counties, has received notice from the Illinois Department of Commerce and...

KY Federal utility assistance fund exhausted after helping 2500 Kentuckians
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville, KY
...and no more applications will be accepted, Becky Montague, assistant director of the Community Action Partnership, said Saturday...

Heat packs cool shelters, pools
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville, KY
Becky Montague, assistant director of the Community Action Partnership, expected that the funds would be gone by Friday, as officials process the last of roughly 2,000 applications for assistance...

500 Louisville applications processed for electric bill aid
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville, KY
Officials with the Louisville Metro Community Action Partnership, which is distributing $311000 in federal grants to help the poor pay for high electric bills, processed nearly 500 applications Wednesday...

Community action agency offers numerous programs
Danville Advocate - Danville, KY
Each Blue Grass Community Action Partnership county office is headed by a community developer who provides a variety of services to clients in the midst of...

Rain, wind doesn't stop hundreds from seeking LIHEAP help with utilities
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville, KY
Tuesday was the second day that the Louisville Metro Community Action Partnership distributed credits to help pay LG&E bills -- ranging from $50 to $175...

Long lines for cooling help form for the second day
WDRB - Louisville, KY
Community Action Partnership is now telling people to come back Wednesday morning to wait in line. Monday, more than three hundred people got money from the...

Community Action Council helping low-income families with cooling assistance
WKYT - Lexington, KY
Low-income families who need help staying cool this summer, can now apply for help through the Community Action Council. The Community Action Council began...

Summer LIHEAP Assistance Now Available
WFPL - Louisville, KY
The local Community Action Partnership will distribute the funds. Debbie Belt is the CAP spokesperson. “There are a lot of families who are on fixed incomes...

MA Human services committee to review membership, mission
Barnstable Patriot - Barnstable, MA
She said also that the Community Action Committee is looking at new ways to serve youth in the town. Fritzinger hopes to expand her agency's work with youth...

MD Baltimore City Extends Code Red Heat Alert
WJZ - Baltimore, MD
The Community Action Program is operating five centers around the city. The centers will be open from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm Saturday...

ME WMCA hires two new employees
Lewiston Sun Journal - Lewiston, ME
Western Maine Community Action Health Services recently hired Tracy Polisky, left, and Barbara Drake. Polisky is a reproductive health specialist who will...

MI Emergency assistance available
WWMT - Kalamazoo, MI
Persons seeking assistance should call their local Community Action Housing and Support Services office or you can call the toll-free number at...

Senior housing complex opens in Clare
The Morning Sun - Mt. Pleasant, MI
...the 24-unit apartment complex is run by Fourth Street Senior Housing LDHA, a partnership between the Mid Michigan Community Action Agency and PS Equities in Mt. Pleasant...

Hardest Hit Fund
UpNorthLive.com - Traverse City, MI
The Northwest Michigan Community Action Agency's Foreclosure Prevention Program offers counseling for families...

NE Commodity Supplemental Food Program distribution clinic
York News-Times - York, NE
To schedule an appointment or obtain information about how to qualify, call Blue Valley Community Action at 729-2278 or 362-3516 in York or 759-3564 in...

NH RCA thanks Hampton Falls for appropriation
Seacoastonline.com - Portsmouth, NH
Thank you very much for your recent appropriation to Rockingham Community Action (RCA). This appropriation, when combined with the help of other towns and...

NJ Stimulus funds used to weatherize homes
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack, NJ
Bergen County Community Action Partnership (BCCAP) is investing $5 million dollars in the local Bergen County area economy. These federal stimulus funds are being used for weatherization work...

NY Federal housing grants for homeless
Mid-Hudson News - Middletown, NY
In Catskill, Community Action of Greene County's Supportive Housing Project for Victims of Domestic Violence will receive $29900...

OH Agencies shower young mothers with info
Chillicothe Gazette - Chillicothe, OH
Ross County Community Action reached out to young mothers Friday with a community-wide baby shower, during which the main gift was information...

Wal-Mart gives out local grants
Marietta Times - Marietta, GA
"Wal-Mart has been a great supporter through the years," said Cathy Rees, the Secret Santa program coordinator for Washington/Morgan Community Action...

Electric bill help available
The Buckeye Lake Beacon - Buckeye Lake, OH
LEADS Community Action Agency is offering the Summer Crisis Program to assist local income eligible households with their electric bills...

COMMUNITY BABY SHOWER WILL BE FRIDAY
Chillicothe Gazette - Chillicothe, OH
Ross County Community Action will host a community baby shower from 10 am to 2 pm Friday at the Ross County Service Center, rooms B and D, 475 Western Ave...

CAP offering help
Register-Herald - Eaton, OH
Community Action Partnership will be offering the Summer Crisis Program beginning July 1 through Aug. 31. or until all funds are depleted...

REGISTER VIEWPOINT: Get the word out about free food for kids
Sandusky Register - Sandusky, OH
The Erie-Huron Community Action Commission has a simple mission -- fight childhood hunger. Unfortunately, not all residents, especially those who could benefit the most from the commission's summer food-service program...

7 groups split more than $61K in Adena grants
Chillicothe Gazette - Chillicothe, OH
Among those was a $10000 grant to help with free parenting classes and childhood illness education submitted by the Jackson-Vinton Community Action...

OK Annual school supply program to start
Muskogee Daily Phoenix - Muskogee, OK
Muskogee County Community Action Foundation will be distributing school supplies for elementary school children in kindergarten through the sixth grade...

HUD Awards Millions for Housing in OK
KSBI 52 - Oklahoma City, OK
...Kibois Community Action Foundation in Wilburton will each receive more than $500000. HUD has announced that 46 states will receive more than $500 million in grants...

Oklahoma receives more than $4.6 million in grants from HUD
KFSM - Fort Smith, AR
...Oklahoma Community Action in Seminole; $499700 was awarded to Kibois Community Action Foundation and Quality Enterprises of Lawton will receive $534700...

OR Deputy director of Mid-Valley nonprofit earns national credentials
Statesman Journal - Salem, OR
Cyndi Astley, the deputy director of the Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency, earned a certification as a Community Action professional...

TX The Need For Fans is Great With Rising Temperatures (inc. video)
KAVU - Victoria, TX
Victoria Television Group and the Community Action Committee and the Senior Citizens Center are trying to help beat the heat, by asking for fans to be to be donated to those in need...

REQUEST FOR SEALED PROPOSALS Bee Community Action Agency (BCAA) Head Start...
mySouTex.com - Beeville, TX
Bee Community Action Agency (BCAA) Head Start Program is accepting sealed proposals for Food, Non-Food, Produce Items and Dairy Products for its Head Start...

WA Can Rossi be “10th man” for GOP?
Grays Harbor Daily World – Aberdeen, WA
U.S. Senate candidate Dino Rossi talks with Craig Dublanko, the finance director with the Coastal Community Action Program, at the social service organization’s wind turbines in the hills near Grayland...

Tri-Cities homeless rate rises; affordable units drop
TheNewsTribune.com - Tacoma, WA
Judith Gidley, executive director for the Benton Franklin Community Action Committee, said the changing economy is putting more people in need...

WI Federal stimulus cash to subsidize Rock County jobs
Janesville Gazette - Janesville, WI
Community Action of Rock and Walworth Counties will get about $357000 to run the program in Rock County, said Lisa Furseth, Community Action's executive director...

Job experience goal of program
Beloit Daily News - Beloit, WI
Community Action Inc. of Rock County will be receiving $737725 to subsidize at least 25 jobs in the county...

Welding classes offered by Western Dairyland Community Action Agency
WQOW TV News 18 - Eau Claire, WI
...interested in welding careers are invited to apply with Project Advance, a federally-funded program from the Western Dairyland Community Action Agency...

Wood County wins Department of Commerce lottery
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune - Wisconsin Rapids, WI
There are about 80 Wood County families on the North Central Wisconsin Community Action Program's list for home repairs, said Pam Glynn, director for...

Our View: Agency opens a new chapter of important work
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune - Wisconsin Rapids, WI
Central Community Action Program has named a new director, and we wish him and the agency the best as they begin a new chapter. NCCAP's longtime director...

North Central Community Action Program picks new leader
Wausau Daily Herald - Wausau, WI
The governing board of North Central Community Action Program on Monday named Jeff Sargent to take over the agency that employs about 75 people to provide...

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