Connecticut Association for Community Action
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CAFCA Connections – December 6, 2019
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Community Action Highlights
- CRT Shares '12 Ways of Giving' to Support Charitable Holiday Giving (Fox 61)
- Stuff-a-Cruiser for New Opportunities' Food Pantry
- HRA distributes 547 turkeys to families in need (Brian M. Johnson and Catherine Shen, New Britain Herald, 11/25/19)
- Critically-Needed Affordable Senior Housing Arrives in Tolland with Access Housing at Parker Place (Access Agency Press Release, 11/21/19)
- Lottery commission donated to Danbury charity (Julia Perkins, The Hour, 11/15/19)
Check It Out – Items of Interest
- CT's wealth inequality remains a looming obstacle to tolling cars (Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror 12/2/19)
- Eliminating food deserts won't help poorer Americans eat healthier (Hunt Allocott, Jean-Pierre Dubé and Molly Schnell, Route Fifty, 12/2/19)
- Separated by design: Why affordable housing is built in areas with crime, few jobs and struggling schools (Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CT Mirror, 11/25/19)
- Nonprofits say philanthropy alone can't save services (Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 11/19/19)
- Study says Fairfield County has nation's highest wage inequality (Brian Woodman Jr., CT News Junkie, 11/19/19)
- Lawmakers continue bipartisan health insurance talks (Christine Stuart, CT News Junkie, 11/18/19)
- The surprising income equality in America (Red Jahncke, CT Post, 11/17/19)
- Veltri, Lembo aim to influence CT health policy debates with new tool (Matt Pilon, Hartford Business Journal, 11/15/19)
- Children are losing access to an extremely effective anti-poverty program: Medicaid (Joan Alker, Spotlight on Poverty & Opportunity, 11/13/19)
Community Events
- New Opportunities Holiday Toy Drive
- TVCCA Annual Boot Drive
National and Regional Events
2020 New England Community Action Partnership Presidential Forum
Jan, 16-17 in Manchester, NH
2020 New England Community Action Partnership (NECAP) Spring Conference
May 18-21 in Newry, ME