March-2015 Newsletter – Connecticut Association for Community Action

Save HIS! – For the first time ever, Governor Malloy's proposed FY 2016-2017 biennium budget released Wednesday completely eliminates Human Services Infrastructure funds, the "core" funding for Connecticut's Community Action Agencies…

Community Action Highlights

• Budget would harm low income earners (Submitted by James H. Gatling, Republican American)
• Op-Ed: Gov. Malloy eliminates vital funding for low-income families (Submitted by Edith Pollock Karsky, CT Mirror)
• TVCCA raises $22K during holiday season (Staff Reports, Norwich Bulletin, 3/16/15)
• Ninety-eight men don the aprons on April 25th (Diane Stroman, 3/13/15, TEAM, Inc. Press Release) – Join the fun and good times at the 8th Annual “Men Who Cook” as it returns to the Valley on April 25th. This is a unique spring evening out with your friends and family at the Valley’s most popular event. Let someone else cook while you enjoy a wide variety of dishes and desserts prepared by 98 “celebrity chefs”…
• Firefighters, police officers to face off at city Walk for Warmth (Molly Callahan, Meriden Record Journal, 3/9/15)
• TVCCA to open coffee houses for veterans (John Penney, Norwich Bulletin, 3/6/15)
• Need help filing your taxes? Connecticut's Community Action Agencies can help!

Check It Out – Items of Interest

• Op-Ed: Connecticut nonprofits are in an abusive relationship...with the state (Patrick J. Johnson, CT Mirror, 3/13/15)
• Low-income programs not driving nation's long-term fiscal problem  (Robert Greenstein, et. al., Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 3/12/15)
• Inequality's dead-end?and the possibility of a new, long-term direction (Gar Alperovitz, Nonprofit Quarterly, 3/10/15)
• For now, Malloy says this budget problem is the legislature's (Mark Pazniokas, CT Mirror, 3/9/15)
• The astonishing state-by-state food stamp reliance (Niraj Chokshi, Washington Post, 3/3/15)
• People with low incomes say they pay a price in poor health (Patti Neighmond, NPR, 3/2/15)
• Schools face new challenges as poverty grows in inner suburbs (Emma Brown and T. Rees Shapiro, Washington Post, 2/27/15)
• Nine charts about wealth inequality in America (Urban Institute, 2/15)

Community Events

• New Opportunities Walk for Warmth, March 28th
• Access Community Action Agency: Facing Poverty in our Midst: Past, Present, Future
• TEAM's 8th Men Who Cook Event
• Save the date! TEAM's 50th Anniversary Gala

National Events

NCAF
2015 Legislative Conference
March 24-27 in Washington, D.C.

Northern New England 2015 CAA Conference
May 20-22 in Manchester, VT

CAPLAW
2015 National Training Conference
June 10-12 in Portland, OR

Community Action Partnership
2015 Annual Convention
August 25-28 in San Francisco, CA

NASCSP
2015 Annual Training Conference
September 15-18 in Sacramento, CA