CAAs in the News - October 12, 2009 through October 18, 2009 (MS Word)

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CA Shelters get grant money
Union Democrat - Sonora, CA
The $200000 award to the Amador-Tuolumne Community Action Agency will go to fund the emergency homeless shelter in Sonora and transitional shelter in...

IA Heating bill assistance available
West Branch Times - West Branch, IA
Community Action of Eastern Iowa is now accepting applications for the 2009-2010 Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program for elderly and handicapped...

IL Low-income energy assistance program available
Waukegan News Sun - Waukegan, IL
The Community Action Partnership of Lake County has announced the availability of heating assistance through the federally funded Low Income...

IN St. Joseph Hospital And CANI Team Up For Health Insurance Fair
Indiana's NewsCenter - Fort Wayne, IN
Saint Joseph Hospital and Community Action of Northeast Indiana join forces to help area residents...

Wabash Valley Community Foundation Awards Grants
MyWabashValley - Terre Haute, IN
They include: Ronald McDonald House, Council on Domestic Abuse, Light House Mission, Arts Illiana, Western Indiana Community Action Agency, ISU-Blumberg...

Winter relief in the form of lower gas bills
New Albany Tribune - New Albany, IN
Help is being offered by Community Action of Southern Indiana to become more energy efficient or to receive assistance paying utility bills...

CANI energy assistance program takes applications
News Sentinel - Fort Wayne, IN
CANI (Community Action of Northeast Indiana) is accepting appointments for its energy assistance program. CANI is making appointments for its offices in...

Stimulus gives some in community a boost
Bloomington Pantagraph - Bloomington, IN
Harris called Community Action to get help with a deposit and the first month's rent for an apartment and learned about the agency's transitional housing...

LA In other Lafourche Parish Council action
Daily Comet - Thibodaux, LA
...amendments from the Louisiana Association of Community Action Partnerships Inc., on behalf of the Lafourche Parish Council Office of Community Action...

MA Community Action Agency of Somerville to hold annual meeting Oct. 29
Boston Globe - Boston, MA
As the Great Recession swept though the country, the Community Action Agency of Somerville (CAAS) helped over a thousand people in Somerville to get housing...

4-H cares about community
Kingston Reporter - Kingston, MA
According to Molly Vollmer, 4-H extension educator, the Plymouth County Extension 4-H Program has teamed up with the South Shore Community Action Council to...

Hunger haunts South Shore
Enterprise News - Brockton, MA
“The common expression is 'I tried to avoid this for as long as I could,'” said Pat Daly, executive director of South Shore Community Action Council in...

MI Playground receives a face-lift
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron, MI
Volunteers and officials from the Community Action Agency of St. Clair County Head Start spent six hours Friday preparing a playground for an upgrade at Our...

Community Action Agency to Receive Grant for Housing Counseling Assistance Program
RealEstateRama
Today Congressman Mark Schauer announced that the Community Action Agency...

Free Holiday Decoration Service Available to Seniors and Residents with Disabilities…
OLHSA Press Release
Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency (OLHSA) will decorate your home for the holidays – free of charge…

MD Garrett lease-to-own project will provide work force housing
Cumberland Times-News - Cumberland, MD
The Mews is a joint project involving the Garrett County Community Action Committee and the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development...

MN Early Cold Drives Up Need for Heating Help
KSTP.com - St. Paul, MN
But the programs that will eventually receive funding, like Community Action Minneapolis, are still working to make sure low-income people do not get their...

Hungry for reading
International Falls Daily Journal - International Falls, MN
Thursday, a group of 3- and 4- year-old kids from Kootasca Community Action Headstart program turned into their own versions of caterpillars as they heard...

MO Record Number of Homes to be Winterized in Columbia
KBIA - Columbia, MO
Columbia's Central Missouri Community Action is gearing up to winterize a record number of homes in the region as part of its...

MT Miffed about mold
Daily Inter Lake - Kalispell, MT
But Doug Rauthe, executive director for the Community Action Partnership of Northwest Montana, said it is each homeowner's responsibility to check their...

NC Area's energy-leaking homes wait for stimulus help
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville, NC
In most of Western North Carolina, the money goes to nonprofit groups called community action agencies formed to help low-income people, like Mountain...

ND Rotary Club to have food drive
Jamestown Sun - Jamestown, ND
The Jamestown Rotary Club will collect non-perishable food items throughout the community through Monday to benefit the Community Action Food Pantry...

Stuff-A-Truck food drive returns to Lake Region
Devil's Lake Daily Journal - Devil’s Lake, ND
Dave Brustad, of Leevers County Market, and Stacey Chepulis, of Dakota Prairie Community Action Agency, are teaming up for the annual Stuff-A-Truck campaign...

Weatherization Assistance
KFYR-TV - Bismarck, ND
And for those needing some help in preparing their home, Community Action is offering weatherization assistance to residents in Williams, Divide...

NE Program helps to keep the lights on
North Platte Telegraph - North Platte, NE
Sue Gillett, services coordinator for Community Action, says that although she has been in the job for only a few months, she has already seen how much the...

Toy run, feed to benefit Blue Valley Community Action
York News-Times - York, NE
A toy run, chili feed and soup supper to benefit area children through Blue Valley Community Action starts Saturday at Sheryll's Westside Saloon in...

New Resources for Job Seekers
NTV - Kearney, NE
That's where agencies like "Community Action Partnership's" new job placement service program come into play. applicants come through its doors...

NY Stimulus money growing green work force
Buffalo News - Buffalo, NY
It was show-and-tell time today at the Community Action Organization of Erie County. The not-for-profit agency is using more than $3 million...

HEAP, other programs can help low-income families pay heating bills
Poughkeepsie Journal - Poughkeepsie, NY
Allers said the county Office for the Aging and the Dutchess County Community Action Partnership are helping to spread the word about HEAP benefits and are...

OH WSOS to have meetings to elect low-income representatives
Port Clinton News Herald - Port Clinton, OH
A public meeting to elect a low-income representative to the Board of Directors of WSOS Community Action Commission, Inc., will be held in each of the...

New program will aid inmates' families
Chillicothe Gazette - Chillicothe, OH
"It was something we (Ross County Community Action) decided to do with (some of our federal stimulus funding)." The program is available to any inmate's ...

CCEDC Hosts Women's Empowerment Seminar
North Central Ohio - Mansfield, OH
Central Economic Development Council Community Action kicked-off its free two-day women's empowerment seminar Thursday at the Comfort Inn on Trimble Road in ...

Mansfield woman empowers others using humor
Mansfield News Journal - Mansfield, OH
Patti Luckie, community services director at Central City Economic Development Council Community Action, 523 Park Avenue East, said women have enjoyed pizza...

Senior meals come from levy funds
Ashtabula Star-Beacon - Ashtabula, OH
“The senior levy has allowed Community Action to almost double the number of meals that we can deliver each year,” Jordan said. Jordan said the program is...

Advocating for Families First
Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati, OH
The Cincinnati-based Alumnae Chapters of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., in partnership with the Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency (CAA)...

OK Homebuyers find help
Tulsa World - Tulsa, OK
Jada and Quincy Edwards were among the 21 people who closed on a home in August with the help of Community Action Project's First-Time Homebuyer program...

Hugo nonprofit receives grant to aid low-income entrepreneurs
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City, OK
Little Dixie Community Action Center in Hugo is one of 58 national nonprofit organizations in 32 states and the District of Columbia receiving grant funding...

OR Garden provides sensory experience for tots of incarcerated moms
Wilsonville Spokesman - Wilsonville, OR
Bolmeier is the manager of day-to-day operations at the Head Start center, which is managed by Community Action, a Hillsboro group that works with incarcerated women and their children…

PA CACLV acted wisely
The Morning Call - Allentown, PA
The Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley received $1.4 million in special, one-time funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...

SD Community Action Program needs our help
Hot Springs Star - Hot Springs, SD
By Mayor Don De Vries Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Although the Community Action Program (CAP) is not a city function, it involves many members of our...

TX Pink all around for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Newstreamz San Marcos - San Marcos, TX
...Carol Belver of Community Action, Mary Cavanaugh of the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Keri Worthy and Lydia Perez of Community Action...

WA US funds offer energy help
The Olympian - Olympia, WA
The state Commerce Department has distributed past stimulus grants for weatherization to local organizations including the Community Action Council of Lewis...

WY Final Casper apartment evictees move out during snowstorm
Billings Gazette - Billings, MT
Cliff Davies with the Community Action Partnership went door to door, banging on shaky glass panes to make sure residents had a place to stay...

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