Relief Sought For Flood Victims
by | Mar 10, 2008 7:07 pm | Comments (1)
As Ecuador struggles to recover from deadly floods that forced thousands of people from their homes, a group in Connecticut is organizing some relief.
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At Bella Vista, Too, Food Bank Fills A Need
by | Oct 1, 2007 9:35 am | Comments (0)
Some people assume that the residents of the Bella Vista Senior Community have all their needs met. Sharon Roman knows otherwise.
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by | Jun 18, 2007 10:35 am | Comments (2)
The toilets in the women’s room at the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen have been acting up on a weekly basis. And every week the plumber comes and has to get paid.
Eat Out—& Fight AIDS
by | Apr 24, 2007 9:17 am | Comments (0)
On Thursday, eating out will be truly justifiable. At 15 different restaurants in New Haven, up to 50 percent of your dinner bill will be donated to local AIDS work — at a critical time for funding-starved agencies.
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by | Oct 4, 2006 2:32 pm | Comments (0)
How You Can Help
by | Jul 12, 2006 12:14 pm | Comments (0)
Christian Community Action is weeks away from renovating and reopening a 5,400 square-foot three- apartment wood-frame house on Davenport Avenue where it houses homeless families. It got $50,000 from the state to paint, replace floors, sheetrock, and otherwise make liveable again the 1910-built house. Now the agency needs donations to fill the place: couches, chairs, beds, plates, silverware, towels, pillows… anything to help some of 40 – 50 families currently with no place to turn find a spot to settle for a while. Call CCA’s Bonita Grubbs or Lillian Marquez (pictured on the house’s first floor) at 777‑7848 to arrange to donate items or cash to buy them.
A Pizza’s Worth of Help
by | Jun 27, 2006 4:27 pm | Comments (0)
Johnny Scafidi thinks a roof to sleep under is a human right. That’s why he’s leading the annual “Inside at Night” fight to keep New Haven’s Overflow Shelter open those warmer months of the year, when city funding runs out. The group got together the $35k to keep it going in May and they have October almost covered, too — but September, Scafidi remembers, can get pretty chilly. Got a knack for fundraising? Call Scafidi at (203) 432‑2429 to help “Inside at Night” make their call. Rather cut a check to funders at Interfaith Cooperative Ministries? $13.34 — less than a two-topping pizza, they like to say — gets a man a bed, and fed, for a day.
Taking It To The Diaper Bank
by | Jun 9, 2006 8:49 am | Comments (2)
A second birthday party took place in East Rock for an organization, not a toddler — an organization, one of just three of its kind in the country, that makes more of a difference than you might think not just for little people, but for their parents.
How You Can Help: Web-Surf for Seniors
by | Jun 2, 2006 4:20 pm | Comments (0)
Susanne Turi knows about an on-line benefits-searching tool seniors can’t afford to miss. It’s a web site that gives older Americans a “check-up” based on their financial status, and reports back all the state and federal assistance programs they qualify for. Turi also knows web-surfing still isn’t the most comfortable sport for many in the older generation. So she volunteers at the Agency on Aging of South Central Connecticut on Longwharf Drive, guiding seniors through cyberspace and the potentially tricky registration process. Getting poor seniors over the “Oh my God, This is too complicated!” hump and into the programs they deserve is “tremendously satisfying” — but more work than the current handful of volunteers can handle. If you’ve got four (or more) hours a month to help CT seniors surf for security, call the Agency’s Benefits Check Up director, Beverly Kidder, at (203)-785‑8533 × 3161.
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by | Apr 28, 2006 8:46 am | Comments (0)
Curtis Hill rescues people’s old computers. Through his organization Concepts for Adaptive Learning, Hill puts them in the hands of hundreds of children in urban families who might not otherwise connect to the grid. He needs more. So do the kids. Have a computer you’re not using anymore? If it still works, contact Hill by e‑mail or call him at 410‑3679. And if your not-for-profit has a specific need for volunteers or donors, contact us here and we’ll list it.