Connecticut Association for Community Action
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CAFCA Connections – October 13, 2020
Community Action Highlights
- Community Renewal Team to rename women's empowerment center in Hartford after Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 9/24/20) and CRT's Women's Empowerment Center helps women find jobs during COVID-19 (NBC CT video)
- Smart investment: COVID-19 response and recovery (Valley Community Foundation) includes coverage of various efforts by TEAM, Inc.
News Items of Interest
- Trump administration extends free meals for kids for entire school year (USDA press release, 10/9/20)
- CT’s rental assistance program gets overhaul to clear logjam (Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CT Mirror, 9/29/20)
- Lamont to extend eviction moratorium again (Hugh McQuaid, Christine Stuart, CT News Junkie, 9/29/20)
- CT nonprofits scrambling to stay afloat during COVID, survey finds (Keith Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 9/25/20)
- Economic fallout from COVID-19 continues to hit lower-income Americans the hardest (Kim Parker, Rachel Minkin, Pew Research Center, 9/24/20)
- Nonprofits devastated as demand for services spikes (Steve Jensen, CT News Junkie, 9/22/20)
- ‘State of Wellbeing’ survey quantifies racial inequities in both health and economy (Kasturi Pananjady, CT Mirror, 9/17/20)
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