by | Nov 20, 2009 9:05 am | Comments (3)
Ashley Sargent lives near Route 80. She sees a homeless woman there every day looking “sad” and holding two signs that say, “Please help me” and “Will work for money and food.” That woman inspired a unique field trip Thursday night.
by | Nov 12, 2009 8:16 am | Comments (1)
Tent City on the Green was such a hit last year, raising $42,000 for the city’s overflow homeless shelter, that it’s happening again on Nov. 19 — in a tougher economic climate.
by | Nov 11, 2009 9:34 am | Comments (18)
In the Obama era Washington is looking to foundations to drive “social innovation.”
by | Oct 29, 2009 11:47 am | Comments (2)
If a farewell dinner was any indication, Charlie Pillsbury is leaving Community Mediation in some small hands as he steps down from running the organization after 20 years.
by | Oct 2, 2009 1:51 pm | Comments (2)
Chantel Corcino and her boyfriend had just dropped their daughter off at school “when all of a sudden he began to hit me.”
by | Sep 29, 2009 11:37 am | Comments (2)
When she heard the news that Empower New Haven had won a $1 million grant, “I jumped three feet in the air,” said Althea Richardson.
by | Sep 25, 2009 12:19 pm | Comments (6)
After ten years, a New Haven antipoverty agency has reached a crossroads: It can close up shop or regroup and soldier on.
by | Sep 24, 2009 11:13 am | Comments (0)
With new federal stimulus money, the Community Action Agency has created a “passport” to a new future for its clients — and for the agency itself.
by | Sep 24, 2009 7:10 am | Comments (0)
President Obama has “czars” for the economy, for health care, and recently for cars. Now Washington needs a top-level position to chart policy for to keep kids out of trouble, too.
by | Jul 31, 2009 11:37 am | Comments (5)
How does it feel to be a predator in the woods at night? Or, for that matter, the predator’s prey? Forty New Haven kids found out this week, through a five-day camping experience.
by | Jul 31, 2009 7:48 am | Comments (0)
Briana Fuller, age 7, and her friends got warmed up and ready to walk laps around the New Haven Green by dancing and doing the “Cupid Shuffle.”
by | Jul 17, 2009 12:33 pm | Comments (1)
“The wool feels good,” said Jeffry Gianini said as he packed a book for an unseen reader.
by | Jul 15, 2009 6:05 pm | Comments (0)
A beach bash brought together dance, rap, song — and dozens of grandparents and relatives who are raising young kids.
by | Jul 9, 2009 8:21 am | Comments (0)
Crossroads, Inc. broke ground Wednesday on a new facility that will keep families from being broken up when drug-addicted moms enter rehab.
by | Jun 29, 2009 9:53 pm | Comments (11)
Joseph Mullo hopped on his very own bike in the Fair Haven Middle School gym Monday afternoon, where he and over 50 neighborhood children received brand new wheels from Devil’s Gear Bike Shop.
by | Jun 26, 2009 1:35 pm | Comments (11)
The city gave operators of the Grand Avenue homeless shelter another year’s worth of money, while promising to keep an eye on a leaky roof and other problems.
by | May 12, 2009 10:24 pm | Comments (0)
by | Apr 30, 2009 8:27 am | Comments (4)
As New Haven prepares to receive $1.5 million from the feds to help the homeless, lawmakers want to make sure the word gets out to those who need it most.
Continue reading ‘Stimulus $$$ Will Help Homeless, Fix Sidewalks’
by | Apr 29, 2009 7:41 am | Comments (1)
A report released Tuesday by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven portrays a time of high stress for local not-for-profits.
by | Apr 27, 2009 4:05 pm | Comments (13)
Charlie Pillsbury, who has helped end longstanding disputes as intractable as New Haven’s and East Haven’s airport stand-off, is stepping down from his peacemaking perch.
by | Mar 30, 2009 10:43 am | Comments (0)
New Orleans — I’m writing stories about efforts to restore the wetlands on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, so I thought I’d get some hands-on experience.
Continue reading ‘A Post-Katrina Powwow, Cypress Tour, & Frozen Daiquiri’
by | Mar 25, 2009 11:05 am | Comments (1)
This is my fourth trip to the New Orleans area post-Katrina, but my first since March 2007. Things have definitely improved in that time, although the pain of loss is still sharp.
by | Mar 16, 2009 11:52 am | Comments (2)
The young performers of Las Estampas nearly made the dinosaurs dance as the Yale Peabody Museum hosted the seventh annual annual Fiesta Latina. At the same time, stegosaurus-sized cuts in state budget support for founding sponsor Junta for Progressive Action raised questions if there will be an eighth.
by | Feb 27, 2009 11:03 am | Comments (0)
Don Bamberg sent in this write-up and photo from the Agency on Aging of South Central Connecticut.
by | Feb 24, 2009 9:59 am | Comments (1)
As teen programs become an endangered species in New Haven, a center is bringing young people together in Newhallville — and reaching out across neighborhood boundaries to recruit more.