Connecticut Association for Community Action
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CAFCA Connections – May 6, 2020
New Name for ABCD, Inc.
Congratulations to ABCD, Inc. – now known as the Alliance for Community Empowerment – for your successful name reveal! Watch the announcement and check out the Alliance for Community Empowerment's new website!
Community Action Highlights
- Meals on Wheels faces increased demand (Sten Spinella, New London Day, 4/19/20)
- Nonprofits face challenge feeding the hungry - 'We're getting people here we've never seen' (Mary Ellen Godin, Record-Journal, 4/17/20)
- Working hard to stay ahead of the curve at The Retreat Assisted-Living in Hartford (Fox 61, 4/14/20)
News Items of Interest
- State projected to run $3.2B deficit by 2022 (Christine Stuart, CTNewsJunkie, 4/30/20)
- CT residents losing health coverage as they lose their jobs in the pandemic (Ana Radelat, CT Mirror, 4/30/20)
- Food, rent, health insurance? Tough choices in pandemic economy (Tiffany Hsu, NY Times, 4/23/20)
- Connecticut scrambles to feed those hardest hit by the COVID economy (Jan Ellen Spiegel, CT Mirror, 4/22/20)
- Nonprofit agencies say they are on the brink of financial disaster (Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 4/22/20)
- Pandemic exposes stark health disparities generations in the making (Kate Farrish, CT Health I-Team, 4/16/20)
Community Events
TEAM's 13th Annual Men Who Cook Fundraiser, September 26
National Events
2020 Community Action Partnership Annual Convention
August 26-28 in Seattle, WA
Regional Events
2020 New England Community Action Partnership (NECAP) Spring Conference
Rescheduled to October 20-23 in Newry, ME
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