CAAs in the News - June 14, 2010 through June 20, 2010 (MS Word)
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AL Summer arrives with scorching temperatures
Times Daily - Florence, AL
Tammy McDaniel, executive director of the Community Action Agency of Northwest Alabama, said the agency was flooded with requests last week from residents...
Cooling assistance program announced
WALA-TV FOX10 - Mobile, AL
Mobile Community Action Inc. will begin taking applications for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) on June 21...
AZ Arizona's “Food Stamp” Rolls Hit One Million for First Time
Public News Service
Katie Kahle, program manager for the Arizona Community Action Association says enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has risen...
CA SLO County Community Foundation awards CAPSLO grant funding
Paso Robles Press - Paso Robles, CA
Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County, Inc. [CAPSLO] recently received a $5000 grant from the San Luis Obispo County Community Foundation...
Volunteer Voices
Times-Standard - Eureka, CA
The Volunteer Center of the Redwoods and RSVP have been working with the Redwood Community Action Agency and AmeriCorps for many years...
RCAA announces funding to repair or replace heater or wood stove
Times-Standard - Eureka, CA
The Redwood Community Action Agency recently announced funding that is set to expire at the end of the month. The money is slated for low to moderate income...
CO Nominations sought for Boulder County Multicultural Awards
Daily Camera - Boulder, CO
The Boulder County Community Action Program is seeking nominees for its 22nd annual Multicultural Awards...
Poverty simulation set for Wednesday
Pueblo Chieftain - Pueblo, CO
The college has purchased a Missouri Community Action Poverty Simulator and hopes to use it to start a communitywide conversation about poverty in Pueblo...
DE First State Community Action
Cape Gazette - Lewes, DE
This year during National Community Action Month - a commemoration held in May to highlight the anti-poverty work of Community Action Agencies across the...
GA Surplus commodities to be distributed June 24
The Daily Citizen - Dalton, GA
North Georgia Community Action says that US Department of Agriculture “surplus” commodities will be distributed to eligible area residents beginning June 24...
ID New home to help Lewiston homeless
KLEW - Lewiston, ID
...to be in a better location so we could better serve the public that was closer to Community Action Agency and the Department of Health and Welfare...
Self-help housing could come to MC
Twin Falls Times-News - Twin Falls, ID
The South Central Community Action Partnership could bring a self-help housing program to Mini-Cassia, the nonprofit told Cassia County...
New affordable housing opens in Roberts
KIDK - Idaho Falls, ID
Eastern Idaho Community Action Partnership held a ribbon cutting in Roberts for 23 new low income homes...
KY Summertime sizzle heats up across Kentucky
WYMT - Lexington, KY
With another day with temperatures in the 90s and more to come, organizations like the Community Action Council are gearing up to help people keep cool this...
Community Action offers fans for low-income families
WDRB - Louisville, KY
Community Action has a federally funded summer heat relief program. Viewers can call (502) 574-1157 to see if they are eligible for fans and an air conditioning unit...
MA 'Ending' homelessness a Quixotic quest: Living with it more realistic
Barnstable Patriot - Hyannis, MA
Confronting those realities, about 35 people showed up last week at Community Action Headquarters in Hyannis for a report on a specific initiative to thin ...
MD Howard County community garden expands to include food bank plots
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore, MD
When Bita Dayhoff first became president in October 2009 of the Community Action Council, the food bank for Howard County...
FCAA clinic aids homeless, low-income
Frederick News Post - Frederick, MD
Edras Martinez walked into the Frederick Community Action Agency's health clinic one recent afternoon, his T-shirt tucked into well-worn...
MI Jackson-area nonprofits get $147000 in grant money from FEMA
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com - Jackson, MI
The Community Action Agency — which provides education, housing and economic self-sufficiency programs to residents in Jackson, Hillsdale and Lenawee...
MO Agencies see rise in need for assistance
Hannibal.net - Hannibal, MO
“I think it's going to continue to grow,” said Janice Robinson of the non-profit North East Community Action Corporation, which covers 12 counties...
Harvest Ball charities
Kansas City Star - Kansas City, MO
...Triality Inc., Tri-County Mental Health Services Inc., United Services Community Action Agency of Platte County, Women's Employment Network and YMCA of...
Community garden provides produce to the needy
Hannibal.net - Hannibal, MO
It's a project of garden experts Ron and Martha Staggs and the non-profit North East Community Action Corporation, and is part of a renewed emphasis on...
MN Duluth, Superior planners envision a greener job market
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth, MN
Like many of the job ideas, it's a partnership, in this case between Community Action Duluth and the St. Louis River Alliance. Such partnerships are key...
Brainerd Community Action looking for volunteers for Fourth
Brainerd Daily Dispatch - Brainerd, MN
Brainerd Community Action needs your help. There are several openings for individuals to volunteer for the Fourth of July celebration...
Growing Green Collar Jobs in Duluth (inc. video)
WDIO-TV - Duluth, MN
So, they have been working on looking at biomass as an option in our community," said Slick. Community Action Duluth, a local organization...
NC English House celebrates
BlueRidgeNow.com
David White, executive director of Western Carolina Community Action, speaks during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the English House in...
NH Community news
Foster's Daily Democrat - Portsmouth, NH
On Wednesday, July 14 Community Action will make their annual trip to Clark's Trading Post. The bus will leave the Community Action parking lot on Route 75...
Rockingham Community Action to leave space in city hall
Seacoastonline.com - Portsmouth, NH
About a decade ago, he said, Community Development Block Grant funds were used to upgrade the heating and cooling systems on that end of City Hall...
Head Start closes its Salem center
Eagle Tribune - North Andover, MA
The approximately 18 preschoolers who attend the Salem center will have to travel to Derry in September as Rockingham Community Action consolidates its...
NJ Agency sells low-cost food
Vineland Daily Journal - Vineland, NJ
Tri-County Community Action Partnership, a member of the Angel Food Ministries Food Program, will accept orders for food boxes from 9 am to...
OH Summer-cooling assistance available July 1
Canton Repository - Canton, OH
The 2010 Summer Cooling Program administered locally by the Stark County Community Action Agency will begin July 1. The program is designed to...
Stimulus funds helping to keep weather outside
News-Herald.com - Willoughby, OH
The Painesville resident was one of many homeowners this year who qualified for the weatherization program, which Ashtabula County Community Action Agency's...
HEAP SUMMER PROGRAM BEGINS JULY 1
Lancaster Eagle Gazette - Lancaster, OH
The Lancaster-Fairfield Community Action Agency will accept applications for the HEAP Summer Crisis Program July 1 to Aug. 31...
Community Action Partnership hosts free showing of Toy Story 3 at Washington Theater
Warren Reporter - Warren, OH
Community Action Partnership (CAP), a group of community leaders and youth that is dedicated to educating the community on the consequences of underage drinking...
Small business class offered
Progressor Times - Carey, OH
A small business development training class is being offered by the Hancock, Hardin, Wyandot, Putnam Community Action Commission on Thursdays from 6-9 pm...
Registration days for Head Start set
Progressor Times - Carey, OH
Open registration days have been scheduled for the HHWP Community Action Commission Head Start Preschool. Registration days will be held Wednesday, June 16...
Northside pool receives funding to open as scheduled
WFMJ - Youngstown, OH
The Ohio Department of Development approved a request from the Mahoning Youngstown Community Action Partnership. MYCAP will be allowed to spend more than...
SC Pee Dee Community Action Partnership announces food program
South Carolina Now - Florence, SC
The Pee Dee Community Action Partnership is participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals will be provided to all children 18 or younger...
TX Weatherization program heats up in Central Texas
Temple Daily Telegram - Temple, TX
After a slow start, efforts to use the $2.5 million given to Hill Country Community Action Association for weatherizing homes in Central Texas have yielded encouraging results...
East Texas group offers energy-saving tips
KTRE - Nacogdoches, TX
"The best tip for staying cool and saving energy is to actually raise your thermostat to 78," said Teresa Land, the Community Action Case manager...
VT SEVCA helps state lead nation for weatherization program
Brattleboro Reformer - Brattleboro. VT
Southeastern Vermont Community Action, or SEVCA, was featured in a recent online article published by the US Department of Energy, and the group's work...
Vermont awards $2.9M in community grants
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington, VT
Central Vermont Community Action Council in Barre will be aided in relocating to a former furniture store by a grant of $800000 to the city of Barre...
$6 million facility for Gable Place
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre, VT
The Central Vermont Community Action Council will consolidate its operations at a single, $6 million facility in the heart of downtown Barre with help from an $800,000 shot in the arm...
Vt. hands out grants for jobs, housing
WCAX - Burlington, VT
And the Central Vermont Community Action Council received $800000 to turn an industrial lot in Barre into its new offices. "What we're talking about is...
WA Port Townsend Farmers Market lets people share some of what they sow
Peninsula Daily - Port Angeles, WA
Olympic Community Action Programs and several partner groups offer shoppers, farmers and others a chance to give fresh food to needy families by dropping...