Community Action Connection

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Issue 15

VOLUME 4 ISSUE 2

TOPICS

Family Development

Member Agencies

CONTENTS

Solid Ground assumes ownership of housing for homeless people at Sand Point

Consolidated Crisis Response Center

Opening Doors for South King County Youth

Dine Out and Help People in Need

From The Executive Director

Skagit Food Share Alliance: Supporting Local Agriculture, Ending Local Hunger

BCC and Hopelink Partner for Educational Opportunities

MSC leads the way in creating significant partnership to serve offender/at-risk youth

Van Jones, Champion for a Built-Green Civil Rights Movement, to Speak at Neighborhood House

Like Mother, Like Son

Keystone Corner Breaks Ground

Community Action and Poverty Awareness Month

Starbucks and Story Time

El Centro de la Raza

New Equipment Will Help Double Capacity for Food Warehouse

No Longer Homeless

Homeless Get a Helping Hand

Cowlitz Bank partners with CAP’s Meals on Wheels

Home Fund Helps With Basic Needs

Skagit Food Bank Distribution Center partners with Skagit Transit (SKAT) for new food shuttle service

Second Hand Rose

Opportunity Council kicks off Community Action Month with Annual Meeting, Community Partner Awards

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Solid Ground assumes ownership of housing for homeless people at Sand Point
www.solid-ground.org

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Consolidated Crisis Response Center
Benton & Franklin Counties work together to provide community solution
www.bfcac.org

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Opening Doors for South King County Youth
www.multi-servicecenter.com

Jim Boland, Family Development Specialist, MSC, coaches YES! participant Karisa Ridgeway, 20, on how to work through conflict with a coworker during a recent session at Multi-Service Center offices.

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Dine Out and Help People in Need
More than 30 Bellingham restaurants participate in 8th annual event
www.oppco.org

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From The Executive Director
Ya Know, I Like Profits!
www.wapartnership.org
by Bob Swanson

Governor Gregoire's Community Action Month Proclamation

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Skagit Food Share Alliance: Supporting Local Agriculture, Ending Local Hunger
CTED Grant helps Skagit Food Bank Distribution Center expand
www.skagitcap.org
by Codi Hamblin, Courier Times

Food bank volunteers sorting deliveries at the Distribution Center

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BCC and Hopelink Partner for Educational Opportunities
www.hope-link.org

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MSC leads the way in creating significant partnership to serve offender/at-risk youth
www.multi-servicecenter.com

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Van Jones, Champion for a Built-Green Civil Rights Movement, to Speak at Neighborhood House
Annual Breakfast to be held May 14th
www.nhwa.org

Van Jones

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Like Mother, Like Son
How Head Start is changing lives
www.ruralresources.org

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Keystone Corner Breaks Ground
Spokane to get 19 new units of affordable housing
www.snapwa.org

Spokane's Voiceless Choir sings at ground-breaking event

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Community Action and Poverty Awareness Month
Snohomish County hosting workshop with Dr. Donna Beegle

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Starbucks and Story Time
Families benefit from a unique partnership

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El Centro de la Raza
Announcements and Events
www.elcentrodelaraza.org

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New Equipment Will Help Double Capacity for Food Warehouse
www.lccap.org

Help Warehouse Program Manager Lois Shelton, sitting on CAP’s new pallet jack, demonstrates its capability, doubling the warehouse's capacity. With her is CAP volunteer Jerry Kelly (left) who made a large donation.

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No Longer Homeless
A home for the new Whatcom Homeless Service Center
www.oppco.org

Bill Henkel, Director of the Whatcom Homeless Service Center

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Homeless Get a Helping Hand
Clark County holds first Project Homeless Connect
by ISOLDE RAFTERY, Columbian Staff Writer

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Cowlitz Bank partners with CAP’s Meals on Wheels
www.lccap.org

Meals on Wheels Coordinator Lisa Chavez presents a Certificate of Appreciation to Cowlitz Bank employees John Karnofski and Christa James, and other Cowlitz Bank staff who deliver hot meals one day a week.

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Home Fund Helps With Basic Needs
www.olycap.org

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Skagit Food Bank Distribution Center partners with Skagit Transit (SKAT) for new food shuttle service
www.skagitcap.org

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Published by Megan Brown
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