Help in Achieving Economic Security
In a Boston Globe opinion piece, MASSCAP Executive Director Joseph Diamond and co-author Sandra Venner, Program Director for the Institute on Assets and Social Policy, urge Governor Patrick to adopt programs that help vulnerable people build assets and create economic security. Read the piece (pdf). >>
MASSCAP Offers Policy Recommendations to New Governor
In a letter to Governor-elect Deval Patrick, MASSCAP has offered public policy recommendations for fostering self-sufficiency and economic opportunity among low-income and working people.
See the MASSCAP letter to Governor-elect Patrick (December 12, 2006) (pdf). >>
SMOC Recognized for Its Groundbreaking Work
On Monday, October 30th, the Boston Globe editors recognized the South Middlesex Opportunity Council's commitment to opening doors for those in need. In an editorial titled "The new abolitionists," the paper noted that "SMOC is redirecting its resources to ending homelessness instead of just managing it" and later reiterated the goal of all Massachusetts' CAAs: To move people "into the workforce and up its ladders, earning incomes that help ward off poverty."
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Responding to the Call on Hurricane Katrina Relief
We are all aware of the devastation in the Gulf Region from Hurricane Katrina and our hearts go out to the victims. CAAs around the country, including agencies in Massachusetts, are helping to provide assistance to evacuees from the Gulf Coast area who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. You can help too by contributing to a fund set up by Massachusetts CAAs to assist those relocated to this state. Learn more (pdf). >>
You also can help to support the efforts of CAAs and other organizations working in the Gulf Coast area on the relief effort. Learn more (pdf). >>
MASSCAP Advancing Citizens Energy Program to Help Low-Income People
MASSCAP is collaborating with Citizens Energy Corp. to ensure that affordable heating oil is available for the state's most vulnerable populations.
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Head Start Works: But Bush's Changes Would Limit Its Effectiveness
By Mark Cabana for MASSCAP
 Head Start programs have changed lives and changed families. Mandated to assist the "neediest of the needy," Head Start programs have worked for decades to create positive learning environments and foster healthy lifestyles for children as well as parents. However, Head Start programs nationwide and at Massachusetts community action agencies currently face challenges that could drastically change their ability to serve communities and alter their proven comprehensive child-to-family approach to learning.
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Massachusetts Community Action Agencies Work to Meet the Crisis
With a slumping economy, steadily rising unemployment, the worst state budget situation in over half a century, and growing burdens on low-income people, Massachusetts’ community action agencies (CAAs) have been put to the test in recent months. Yet this spring CAAs have continued to take steps—large and small—to meet the rising challenges.
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