…program manager with MASSCAP – a coalition of community action agencies – said the credits helped his parents buy his first computer. “As a young child, you don’t understand all…
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MA Part of Growing State Movement for Expanded Tax Credits
…first time. More than 100 community organizations and institutions in the Commonwealth have called on lawmakers to prioritize children by advancing the $600 Child Tax Credit, and increasing the Earned…
Trump budget plan could wallop local social services
…across the country and of course Massachusetts,” said Joe Diamond, executive director of the Massachusetts Association for Community Action. Community Teamwork is a Lowell-based non-profit social service provider that supports…
We Know What Works: How Covid Showed Ways to End Poverty
…most helpful programs were not extended, and high inflation is now impacting families as well. Joe Diamond, executive director of the Massachusetts Association for Community Action, a coalition of some…
Families left in the cold as fuel assistance benefits run out
…some households across the state can’t pay for home heating oil as their fuel assistance benefits run out. Cynthia Lewis and her husband have lived in their 100-year-old Dorchester home…
MASSCAP Public Policy Briefing on February 2, 2017
…Executive Director, 617.645.2949 Community Action Agencies have worked to help our most vulnerable populations, especially people living with low incomes, for over 50 years. We serve every community in…
Statement on Allocation by the Baker Administration of $19M for Fuel Assistance
…friends and neighbors living with low-incomes and struggling with high energy burdens which are a drain on their limited resources and threaten their health and safety. To redress in part…
MASSCAP Announces Early Education/Care Workforce Development Initiative: READYGO, Readying Educators And Developing Young Children for Great Outcomes
…use a research-based approach, working closely with Mount Wachusett Community College and Quinsigamond Community College to develop courses/curriculum to be included in early educators degree work and certification, as well…
LEO Keeping Lynn Warm With Heat Help
…in 2015 to 3,500 clients, said community services director Darlene Gallant, with $3.4 million in taxpayer money. LEO to date has received $2.9 million in assistance this year, but there…