The Spring Glen third space — which has morphed over the years from a cool spot to seek out the most eclectic videotapes to a beloved gathering place where performances, speakers, and other live events happen alongside rows and rows of films that are old and new (and yes, there are still some videotapes) — has launched a fundraising campaign to keep the nonprofit afloat and sailing into its future.
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The main dish.
While some customers wary of ICE raids stayed home, Alexis Ramirez was as usual marinating sliced pork shoulder in a blend of dried chiles, achiote, pineapple juice, and spices.
Edward Beverly (above) and Killian Dobroth (below) performing Thursday night at Musical Intervention Studios.
“You gotta be who you are,” Edward Beverly sang Thursday night in an alcove retail space beneath the suspended concrete planet known as the Temple Street Garage, “because that’s who you are.”
New Haven’s flagship refugee resettlement agency is hustling to raise millions of emergency dollars after the Trump administration suddenly canceled a contract to help up to 800 families start new lives here.
Ready to fly: HSC students Jonah Rosenberg, Jazmin Rosario, Diana Robles, and Justin Welch, who worked with Japanese class to fold 1,000 paper cranes to take to Japan.
High School in the Community (HSC) junior Ty’Nique Turner will get the chance to visit Japan and try out the language she’s been teaching herself since middle school, thanks to New Haven Public Schools’ return of international adventures.
Assuming organizers can raise a lot of money fast.
New Haven Puerto Rican community leaders have joined with colleagues statewide to relaunch an aid effort to Puerto Rico as Hurricane Fiona ravages the island.
Yaira Matyakubova and Lyala Stowe at gathering on Peck Street.
The room was hushed when Lyala Stowe began to speak. Her voice was soft. She is from Ukraine, and she was about to recite poems by Ukrainian poets.
Stowe apologized that most audience members would not comprehend the words, spoken in her native tongue. Regardless, the room held onto every syllable.
Pastor Brenda Adkins refuses to stand aside while families struggle to afford feed babies: She has decided to collect formula throughout the summer to start a Formula Pantry.
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Honda Smith and Andrea Daniels-Singleton in the kitchen before hitting the road to deliver meals in West Hills.
As temperatures swooped below freezing, New Haveners delivered sustenance to their neighbors: bags of prepared beef and potatoes for seniors in West Hills, groceries for hungry families in the Hill, Mystic cheese and locally produced honey for farmers market shoppers in Wooster Square.
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Rasheed at the Hill substation.
At 10 years old, Jamilah Rasheed had one used pair of shoes for school. Passed down from her cousin, the shoes were a size too small. Her family couldn’t afford anything else. A hole eventually formed in the back of those used shoes until Rasheed couldn’t wear them anymore.
She thinks back on that time as she enlists New Haveners to help a new generation of young people stay warm this the winter.
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Food giveaway at Barnard last week, one of many in New Haven as hunger grows during the pandemic.
(Opinion) Imagine: You’ve just lost your job due to the pandemic, and now you don’t know how you will afford your next diaper run. Or, you can’t go to work or school, or partake in daily activities, simply because you can’t access the period or incontinence supplies you need.
“There’s a lot of us that are still out here. I’ve known people who fell asleep outside and died.”
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“Before you could walk into the library and stay there. You could look for jobs. You could look for food pantries. Without a phone, without internet access, it’s very difficult for people living in tents, living outdoors.”
Sizing up the challenge ahead — and how we as a community can meet it.
A Science Park-based job training and education center has launched a new Covid-19 relief fund geared towards raising $600,000 to provide direct financial assistance to Dixwell and Newhallville families struggling during the pandemic.
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Picking up groceries at the DESK food pantry downtown.
A comprehensive digital guide to food pantries and soup kitchens. A drive-through farmers market with no cap on doubled food stamp dollars. Mutual aid collaborations designed to get food to immigrants in need.
Those are among the grassroots efforts in town to make sure New Haveners don’t starve during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Organizer Luis Luna at the Food Garage: Undocumented workers are frontline workers.
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Common Ground High School barn, where Food Garage team divides up boxes.
What began in mid-March with a few boxes of extra vegetables from Trader Joe’s has turned into a grassroots operation that collects donated food for around 180 mostly immigrant families a week out of a garage in Westville.
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The Mary Wade Home, an historic and anchoring institution of the Chatham Square section of Fair Haven, and its largest employer, has issued a plea for donations of masks, tablets, and financial support in the wake of the rampaging Covid-19 pandemic.
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CTCORE’s Raven Blake, Ashley Blount and Camelle Scott.
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Semilla Collective’s Sarah Eppler-Epstein and Eden Almasude.
Two groups of local community organizers have set up grassroots “mutual aid” funds with the goal of providing everything from grocery runs to educational support to direct cash assistance for vulnerable New Haveners during the Covid-19 pandemic.
CFGNH CEO Will Ginsberg announcing the new effort Friday on WNHH FM.
A newly established fund aims to pour millions of dollars in coming months into helping New Haveners who are struggling to pay rent, buy food and stay healthy during the spread of the covid-19 coronavirus.
Like other operators of senior facilities, the folks at Tower One/Tower East are working hard to keep their residents alive — and fed — during the COVID-19 crisis.
