CAAs in the News - May 10, 2010 through May 16, 2010 (MS Word)
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AR CAPCA to participate in community action conference
Log Cabin Democrat - Conway, AR
Community Action Program for Central Arkansas (CAPCA) in Conway will participate in the annual conference of the Arkansas Community Action Agencies...
CA CAC 'Champions' honored
Santa Maria Times - Santa Maria, CA
Community leaders from across Santa Barbara County gathered to honor this year's Community Action Commission Champions Fifth District...
Free Financial Education Workshops Provided to the Public
Inland Empire - Redlands, CA
…American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 in cooperation with the California Department of Community Services and Development and Community Action Partnership of San Bernardino County...
Agency addresses local poverty
Siskiyou Daily News - Yreka, CA
Local poverty is being addressed by the Modoc-Siskiyou Community Action Agency (MSCAA), Siskiyou County Human Services Department Director...
Award nominations sought
Colusa County Sun Herald - Colusa, CA
The Colusa-Glenn-Trinity Community Action Partnership, which offers a variety of programs to help low-income individuals and families, is using the backdrop...
CT Agency shares plan for Franklin senior housing
Norwich Bulletin - Norwich, CT
The Access Community Action Agency announced it will build Elisha Brook, a 27-unit apartment building for low-income seniors. The $5 million project will be...
DE Georgetown council declares May is Community Action Month
Sussex Countian - Georgetown, DE
First State Community Action Agency Executive Director Bernice Edwards thanked Georgetown Town Council for their support over the agency's 44...
FL CRC Institute grads finish solar program
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville, FL
The program, a partnership between the Community Rehabilitation Center, Solar Energy Initiatives Inc., and Northeast Florida Community Action Agency...
IA Programs benefit kids
Forest City Summit - Forest City, IA
Some 3-year-olds may need to take a nap and that's OK, said Dianne Casto, the director of Head Start for North Iowa Community Action...
ID Volunteers make the difference
KLEW - Lewiston, ID
May is Older Americans Month and Wednesday Community Action Partnership volunteers were at the St.Stanislaus Community Hall to be...
Food Drive brought in 20000 lbs
KLEW - Lewiston, ID
The Community Action Partnership Food Bank and the Asotin County Food Bank are a little more full after Saturday's National...
IN CANI to host poverty simulation
fwdailynews.com - Fort Wayne, IN
Area residents are invited to experience the virtual realities of poverty in a simulation hosted by Community Action of Northeast...
Trimble County Magistrate District No. 1
Madison Courier - Madison, IN
Civic involvement: Member of Tri-County Community Action Agency, Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency and Rural...
KS National Community Action Month
Pittsburg Morning Sun - Pittsburg, KS
In honor of National Community Action Month, a commemoration held every May to highlight the antipoverty work of Community Action Agencies across the...
ECKAN, Just Food to give open houses
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence, KS
In honor of National Community Action Month, ECKAN and Just Food will be host to open houses Thursday. The Community Center, 2518 Ridge Court...
KY Services In High Demand During KY's Community Action Month
Public News Service
May has been proclaimed 'Community Action Month' in Kentucky by Governor Stever Beshear, and the observance comes at a time when many community-based...
LA IRS honors Alexandria community volunteers in program Thursday, May 20
Alexandria Town Talk - Alexandria, LA
...VITA Recognition Program at 1 pm on Thursday, May 20, at the Cenla Community Action Committee office located at 1335 Jackson Street in Alexandria...
Cenla Community Action Committee seeks board member for Boyce area...
Alexandria Town Talk - Alexandria, LA
Cenla Community Action Committee, the official anti-poverty agency for Rapides Parish, is accepting letters of intent from residents in the Boyce area who...
MD County's grant funding cut again
Annapolis Capital - Annapolis, MD
Without more money, Angus said, the community action agency must close its Glen Burnie center, one of two facilities that help poor people pay utility bills...
New furnaces, air conditioning help cut utility costs at Columbia Housing
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore, MD
With the help of $383000 in Maryland Energy Administration Funds channeled through Howard's Community Action Council, 43 homes are getting major upgrades...
Community Action Agency Brown Bag: Youth and Gangs
Annapolis Capital - Annapolis, MD
The brown bag series is designed to share information and engage the community about poverty in Anne Arundel County. It is an opportunity for the community...
MI Meetings
Petoskey News-Review - Petoskey, MI
Northwest Michigan Community Action Agency will host a workshop on “Banks and Financial Institutions” 6-9 pm Tuesday, May 11, as part of a free series of...
Do Good Corner: Community Action Agency's leader honored
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron, MI
Johnson is the executive director of the Community Action Agency of St. Clair County, an agency that works with low-income individuals and families...
Saginaw organization preps for walking fundraiser
The Saginaw News - MLive.com - Saginaw, MI
Even with spring temperatures rising, the Saginaw County Community Action Committee is staying mindful of...
MO Cars for Caulkers - $1.3 million in ARRA funds spent on vehicles
KMOX.com - St. Louis, MO
"Most of those are trucks in order to do the energy audits, final inspects, that type of work," says John Parsons with the Community Action Agency of St. Louis County...
13 graduate with renewed hope
Jefferson City News Tribune - Jefferson City, MO
For the first time ever, all participants in Central Missouri Community Action's Circles Campaign have successfully completed and...
Garage in Lebanon MO fixes cars for free
KY3 - Springfield, MO
It's a project of Missouri Ozarks Community Action, or MOCA. The MOCA garage has been open just over a week and, so far, 10 low-income families and...
NC Various agencies offer workshops, information
Salisbury Post - Salisbury, NC
...including the Department of Social Services, Salisbury-Rowan Community Action Agency, Rowan County Senior Services and Goodwill Career Connections...
NE On A Dream Night, Students Learn To Reach For The Stars
WOWT - Omaha, NE
They attend the after-school programs offered by the Eastern Nebraska Community Action Partnership. They were clueless about the evening's destination...
NH Block grants help fund Rochester social service agencies
Foster's Daily Democrat - Rochester, NH
The approval includes $50000 for Cross Roads, $40000 for Community Action Program weatherization, $10000 for air conditioning at the Community Center...
NJ Kelly wins Bridgeton mayoral election
Vineland Daily Journal - Vineland, NJ
Kelly currently is president of the City Council and is CEO of Tri-County Community Action Partnership. Kelly picked up 1478 votes to Begley's 453...
Mayor Michael Gonnelli Focus on Finances
The Hudson Reporter - Hoboken, NJ
Because we are a municipality in Hudson County, Secaucus residents have long been entitled to receive services from the North Hudson Community Action...
NY Utica school unions don't endorse board candidates
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica, NY
...community educator for the Mohawk Valley Community Action Agency Evon Ervin, Utica College student John Giacovelli II, retired banker Barry Goodwin...
Community Service Organization Evening Held for Mothers
The Batavian (blog) - Batavia, NY
Pictured above is Eric, the Employment Specialist with Community Action sharing of the programs that they offer. Community Action was just one of many...
Celebrating Community Action Month
Catskill Daily Mail - Catskill, NY
This year during National Community Action Month, CAGC and Community Action Agencies across the country will celebrate their history of partnering with other organizations to address poverty...
Urban farm grows in Buffalo at mosque
WIVB - Buffalo, NY
The Community Action Organization's Green Entrepreneurial Center is using federal stimulus money to bring farming into the city...
OH ON THE CALENDAR
SalemNews.net - Salem, OH
"Big Truck Day," sponsored by Community Action Agency Head Start, noon-3 pm, behind the post office on Saltwell Road. Light lunch and auction...
WSOS program seeks funds to assist criminal offenders
Port Clinton News Herald - Port Clinton, OH
The Board of Directors of WSOS Community Action Commission, Inc. will submit a proposal for $52884 to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction...
COMMUNITY ACTION GOLF FUNDRAISER
Zanesville Times Recorder - Zanesville, OH
MEOAG Inc. the Community Action Agency of Muskingum County is planning a golf fundraiser benefiting the Community Action Agency's Scholarship Fund on May 24...
Community Action unveils new building
Record Herald - Washington Court House, OH
As the new center for the Community Action Commission of Fayette County was unveiled Wednesday, the life of the man whose name the center is named for was...
May is time to focus on WSOS partnerships
Fremont News Messenger - Fremont, OH
May is National Community Action Month, and in Wood, Sandusky, Ottawa and Seneca counties, the observance focuses on the partnerships that have enhanced the...
OR Head Start slates open house
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com - Hillsboro, OR
Community Action Head Start will host open houses at two sites from 10 am to 1 pm on May 15. The Hillsboro Child Development Center, 1001 Baseline St....
Agency official to speak at Washington County Democrats Central Committee meeting
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com - Hillsboro, OR
Lisa Brown, director of Development and Community Relations for Community Action of Washington County, will be the featured...
PA Contract awarded for maintenance facility
Daily American Online - Somerset, NJ
Last May, Jeff Masterson, executive director of the Community Action Partnership for Somerset County, Tableland Services, found a little...
RI Family Resources plans golf tourney
Valley Breeze - Cumberland, RI
Family Resources Community Action will hold its 5th annual golf tournament on Friday, June 18, at Wentworth Hills Golf Club in Plainville...
SC Academic Summer Camp 2010 applications accepted
South Carolina Now - Florence, SC
The Pee Dee Community Action Partnership Weed and Seed Safe Haven is accepting application for its Academic Summer Camp 2010...
TN City to launch massive volunteer effort this weekend
Clarksville Online - Clarksville, TN
This group of volunteers was organized through the City's volunteer partner, Community Action Agency. So far, 1058 local volunteers have offered their...
VA New Head Start director named
Virginia Gazette - Williamsburg, VA
Jocelyn Henry-Whitehead has been named the new director of the Head Start program through the Williamsburg-James City County Community Action Agency...
VT Edna will be missed
Rutland Herald - Rutland, VT
We, at BROC-Community Action in Southwestern Vermont, are very saddened by the news of Edna Fairbanks-Williams untimely death. Edna was very much the true...
WA CAP considering expansion of I-5 van services
Longview Daily News - Longview, WA
The Lower Community Action Program will conduct a month-long survey of riders using the agency's Interstate 5 public transportation vans beginning Monday. The survey will help CAP officials determine expansion of services...
WV McCorkle Center's new food program starts
The Lincoln Journal - Hamlin, WV
Southwestern Community Action Council has partnered with the Lincoln County Opportunity Company (LCOC) and the Lincoln County...