CAAs in the News - October 26, 2009 through November 1, 2009 (MS Word)
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AR LR mayor to help celebrate weatherization program
WXVT - Greenville, MS
The program is sponsored by the Arkansas Community Action Agencies Association and the state Office of Community Services. A news conference about the...
CA Volunteers needed at charity event
Napa Valley Register - Napa, CA
Community Action Napa Valley's culinary training program will provide free lunches for service seekers and volunteers. Anyone wanting to volunteer should...
Napa County's Volunteers of the Year
Napa Valley Register - Napa, CA
Fed by the crew from Community Action Napa Valley's culinary program, volunteers, guests and community leaders spent the afternoon toasting the many people...
GA Thomasville Heating Assistance Program Starts Accepting Applications
WCTV - Tallahassee, FL
On Monday November 2nd the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council in Thomasville will start accepting calls from residents who need help covering...
Apply for heating help starting Nov. 2
Moultrie Observer - Moultrie, GA
…interested individuals or those who look after the interest of elderly or homebound individuals should call Southwest Georgia Community Action Council's...
ID Community Action puts out call about new energy assistance
KLEW - Lewiston, ID
Community Action Partnership is gearing up to help those in need survive the long cold winter. Friday CAP employees and...
Community news
Twin Falls Times-News - Twin Falls, ID
The low-income energy assistance staff from South Central Community Action Partnership will be at the Jerome Senior Center from 9 am to noon Nov...
IL Home heating energy assistance available through Northwestern Illinois...
East Dubuque Register - East Dubuque, IL
Northwestern Illinois Community Action Agency (NICAA) has funding available for the residents of Jo Daviess County through the Low income Home Energy...
Gov. Quinn appoints John Colgan to ICC
Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago, IL
Quinn has appointed a vice president for the Illinois Association of Community Action Agencies as a new member of the Illinois Commerce Commission...
LIHEAP Energy Assistance Program
Pontiac Daily Leader - Pontiac, IL
Community Action Community Services Case worker Teri McWethy said Monday, Nov. 2, will be a walk-in day for those who qualify for the LIHEAP Energy...
IN Community Action offers heating help
Palladium-Item - Richmond, IN
Community Action of East Central Indiana, which serves Wayne, Fayette and Union counties, provides families and individuals that meet the income guidelines...
KS Westar workers weatherize homes
Topeka Capital Journal - Topeka, KS
In partnership with Community Action, Westar employees performed basic weatherization tasks, such as weatherstripping doors, covering windows with plastic...
Free bus passes available
Topeka Capital Journal - Topeka, KS
A limited number of free Topeka Transit bus passes for the month of November are being made available from Community Action...
KY Friday Declared Weatherization Day in KY
Public News Service - Boulder, CO
Thousands will get that help from Community Action Kentucky's weatherization program. Executive director Kip Bowmar says the idea is to provide those homes...
Heating aid registration begins
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville, KY
People can now schedule an appointment to apply for the Metro Community Action Partnership's low-income, home-energy assistance program, which offers...
Winter heating help available
News Enterprise - Elizabethtown, KY
Central Kentucky Community Action will take applications for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program from Monday through Dec. 11...
MA Two Quincy homeless agencies to get United Way funds
The Patriot Ledger - Quincy, MA
Quincy's Father Bill's & Mainspring and Quincy Community Action Programs are among agencies to receive funding. The $661100 will fuel the third year of...
West Roxbury resident and retiring ABCD President Robert Coard to be honored
Wicked Local (blog) - Rolindale, MA
West Roxbury resident and retiring ABCD President/CEO Robert M. Coard shall be honored by the antipoverty community action agency he has led for more than...
Home Heating Demand Up, Despite Lower Prices
WBZ - Boston, MA
So on Monday she went to apply for home heating assistance at her local community action program office, Action for Boston Community Development, ABCD...
It's all about jobs
Worcester Telegram - Worcester, MA
Now 18, Mr. Russell is signed up for the Worcester Community Action Council's new job and education center, a program funded with federal stimulus money and...
MD Nonprofit opens Glen Burnie office to reach north county poor
Maryland Gazette - Annapolis, MD
It didn't take long for north county's needy residents to find the Anne Arundel Community Action Partnership...
ME Annual basket project serves more than 1600 families
VillageSoup Belfast - Belfast, ME
Katie Hill and Wyman Bunker prepare food baskets for the annual drive sponsored by Waldo Community Action Partners and People for People...
KVCAP's new Togus route has greater ambitions
Kennebec Journal - Kennebec, ME
The Kennebec Valley Community Action Program on Monday added a third bus and new bus stops to its Augusta transit system, expanding service in the city's...
MI Programs offer weatherization help for low-income families
UpNorthLive.com - Traverse City, MI
Friday, one family who benefited from the Genesee County Community Action Resource department's weatherization program opened up their home to show what the...
MN Food shelf to stop in Starbuck
Pope County Tribute - Glenwood, MN
...as well as a desire to help people who do not have easy access in their community to food shelves, has led the West Central Minnesota Community Action...
MS It's time to invest in Adams County
Natchez Democrat - Natchez, MS
As former chief executive officer of the AJFC Community Action Agency, Inc., I am very well aware of the importance of capital assets to a community...
NC United Way, WCCA conduct survey
BlueRidgeNow.com - Hendersonville, NC
United Way of Henderson County and Western Carolina Community Action have come together to conduct a needs assessment of Henderson County that will guide...
Program receives $3.5 m federal grant
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville, NC
The Cumberland Community Action Program has been awarded more than $3.5 million to make homes safer and more energy efficient. US Rep...
Green job trainees helping Red Cross
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville, NC
Typically, Community Action Opportunities, the local nonprofit that administers federal weatherization funds, will take applications from elderly and...
ND More than 6000 items collected for food pantry
Jamestown Sun - Jamestown, ND
Employees at Great River Energy's Spiritwood Station construction site donated more than 6200 items and $6300 toward the food pantry at Community Action in...
Hunters helping the hungry
Dickinson Press - Dickinson, ND
In North Dakota, the program works like this: Statewide the North Dakota Community Action Partnership, a nonprofit agency that serves low-income households...
Pantries aim for donations of 700 deer
Dickinson Press - Dickinson, ND
The North Dakota Community Action Partnership, which administers the Sportsmen Against Hunger Program, accepted only deer killed with arrows last year...
Spiritwood Station contractors organize heavy-duty food drive
Jamestown Sun - Jamestown, ND
And need is something that's higher than usual at Community Action's food pantry, said Kathy Williams, executive director of Community Action Program...
Jamestown College Students Using Halloween Week to Help Others
KSJB - Jamestown, ND
...the community from 6:30 to 9 pm on Thursday, Oct. 29, to collect canned goods and other nonperishable food items for the Community Action Food Pantry...
NH Strafford Community Action - Farmington Outreach Office
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover, NH
The Farmington Office of the Community Action Program will also have a 'wishing tree'. The office location is 527 Main Street Farmington, NH 03835...
NY Salvation Army already planning red kettle operations in Orleans
The Daily News Online - Batavia, NY
Rod Bellengee from The Salvation Army's Syracuse office met with Annette Finch, director of community services for Community Action of Orleans and Genesee...
Mentors build memories with youths
Oneida Dispatch - Oneida, NY
The Community Action Partnership (CAP) Mentoring Program brought many positive interactions and educational materials to their mentees this fall season. ...
Stimulus dollars for weatherization create thousands of jobs in New York
The Post-Standard - Syracuse, NY
In Onondaga County, People’s Equal Action and Community Effort Inc., or P.E.A.C.E., a nonprofit community group, is in line for $5.9 million over the next two years, or almost $3 million a year…
OH More eligible for heating assistance
Ironton Tribune - Ironton, OH
HEAP staff of the Ironton-Lawrence County Community Action Organization has issued new guidelines to determine eligibility...
Stimulus Money Helping Weatherize Homes
kypost.com - Cincinnati, OH
With Friday being National Weatherization Day, the Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency is demonstrating how it is...
Program to offer utility assistance
Marion Star - Marion, OH
The Ohio Heartland Community Action Commission is announcing the 2010 Winter Crisis Program, also known as Home Energy Assistance Program...
Appointments for Emergency HEAP help to begin Thursday
Youngstown Vindicator - Youngstown, OH
The Mahoning Youngstown Community Action Partnership will begin to schedule appointments for the Emergency Home Energy Assistance Program...
Aid to children of those in jail questioned
Chillicothe Gazette - Chillicothe, OH
Ross County Community Action has been clearing up some confusion over a program to provide emergency assistance funds to the families of Ross County residents who are incarcerated...
OK Oklahoma seeks OK on appliance rebates
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City, OK
A working group comprised of members from Commerce, Oklahoma Community Action Agencies and members of state utility companies developed the recommended...
Simple procedure keeps bills at bay
Chickasha Express Star - Chickasha, OK
Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry has proclaimed October as Weatherization Month and the Washita Valley Community Action Council's Weatherization Assistance...
OR Community Action hosts energy fair
News-Times - Forest Grove, OR
Community Action of Washington County will host an energy fair on Saturday, Nov. 7 from 9:30 am to 2 pm at Cornelius Elementary School, 200 N. 14th Place...
Recession drives new needs to be met by nonprofits
Daily Astorian - Astoria, OR
George Sabol, executive director of Clatsop Community Action, knows that lately, the economy has been brutal to many residents of Clatsop County...
PA ICCAP announces weatherization day
Indiana Gazette - Indiana, PA
The Indiana County Community Action Program announces Weatherization Day on Oct. 30, according to a release from ICCAP Executive Director, Lorna Vite...
Governor Rendell: Federal Weatherization Funds to be Released Nov. 2; Funds Will Help Struggling Families, Put People to Work
Reuters
...follows: Action Housing Inc. (Allegheny, Washington & Greene) $15270788 Armstrong County Community Action Agency $2684080 Berks Community Action Program...
Pennsylvania's Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program to Open on Nov. 2
Reuters
...at county assistance offices, local utility companies and community service agencies, such as Area Agencies on Aging or community action agencies...
Money arrives, neighborhood improvement project started
Sharon Herald - Sharon, PA
...with a unified look from one business area to another,” said planner Adrienne Gordon, who works for Community Action Partnership of Mercer County...
Health Care Reform Hearing Held By Faith Leaders
WFMZ-TV Online - Allentown, PA
Leaders from local religious organizations and the Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley heard testimony from people who suffered from not having...
From cold to cozy
Delaware County Daily Times - Primos, PA
Her concern was alleviated thanks to the Community Action Agency of Delaware County, the non-profit organization charged with administering the...
SC Nonprofit organization provides hope by attending to some basic needs
South Carolina Now - Florence, SC
For me, a similar sentiment comes to mind when I think of the work of the Pee Dee Community Action Partnership. This nonprofit organization provides loads...
Shelter to have open house for women's dorm
South Carolina Now - Florence, SC
The Pee Dee Community Action Partnership Transitional Shelter will have an open house for its women's dorm at 10 am Thursday at the shelter, 411 S. Jarrott...
UT Capitol meeting rooms still free to nonprofits
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City, UT
"I think they've come out with a fair solution," said Melissa Smith of the Community Action Partnership of Utah, an anti-poverty group.
VA Coleman Replaces Coleman As Community Action CEO
Gazette Virginian - South Boston
William J. Coleman has been hired as the new president and chief executive officer of Tri-County Community Action Agency, Inc. and Halifax County Community...
Haunted house in Galax frightens for a good cause (video coverage included)
WDBJ7 - Roanoke, VA
Raising the hairs on the back of your neck is not the typical way a community action agency raises funds…
WY Head of Community Action Partnership passes the torch
Casper Journal - Casper, WY
Over the quarter century, the commission changed its name to Human Services Commission of Natrona County and then in 2003 to the current Community Action...
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