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How To Help | March 19, 2008

How You Can Help

by Paul Bass | March 19, 2008 8:52 AM | Permalink

This message comes from Steve Greenberg:

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How To Help | March 10, 2008

Relief Sought For Flood Victims

by Melissa Bailey | March 10, 2008 7:07 PM | Permalink

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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How To Help | October 12, 2007

How You Can Help

by Melissa Bailey | October 12, 2007 11:49 AM | Permalink

The city has launched a drive for blankets, towels, unused socks and non-perishable foods to benefit local shelters and help organizations prepare to help needy families during the winter months. Boxes will be set up at the Office of New Haven Residents at City Hall (165 Church St.), at 200 Orange St., and at all branches of the New Haven Free Public Library.

How To Help | October 1, 2007

At Bella Vista, Too, Food Bank Fills A Need

by Thomas MacMillan | October 1, 2007 9:35 AM | Permalink

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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How To Help | September 10, 2007

How To Help

by Melissa Bailey | September 10, 2007 3:24 PM | Permalink

Tracey V. Parks (pictured), community education coordinator for Domestic Violence Services of Greater New Haven, just loaded the first contribution of nonperishable food into her SUV for the agency's month-long food drive. The food is for families who have escaped abuse - often with only their clothes on their backs - and need help as they build new lives. DVS always welcomes food contributions for victims and their children, both during this month and beyond-- To arrange delivery or pickup, please call 865.1957 and ask for Kim or Tracey.

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How To Help | June 18, 2007

How To Help

by Georgia Kral | June 18, 2007 9:35 AM | Permalink

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.

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How To Help | April 24, 2007

Eat Out -- & Fight AIDS

by Nicole Allan | April 24, 2007 8:17 AM | Permalink

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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How To Help | December 14, 2006

How You Can Help

by Paul Bass | December 14, 2006 10:06 AM | Permalink

Neighborhood Music School manages to do two great deeds at once -- give lots of scholarships to hundreds of kids, and put on fun musical events to raise the dough. Help them do it, and enjoy the holiday-music sounds of the Taubl Family this Friday beginning at 7:30 at the school (100 Audubon St.).

How To Help | December 4, 2006

How You Can Help -- A Lot

by Paul Bass | December 4, 2006 7:50 AM | Permalink

The Community Foundation has put together a wish list from the area's not-for-profits, for specific ways your holiday-season donations can help someone in need. Click here as part of your holiday shopping, and pick one way you'd like to make a difference.

How To Help | November 17, 2006

How You Can Help

by Paul Bass | November 17, 2006 8:53 AM | Permalink

Sunday, Nov. 19, is the "Bowl-A-Thon" at Creative Arts Workshop, where studio potters sell their work and donate the proceeds to the Community Soup Kitchen in time to feed the hungry during the holiday season. Click here for details.

How To Help | November 2, 2006

How To Help

by Paul Bass | November 2, 2006 7:16 AM | Permalink

This message comes from Joe Meade: "I need 3 Spanish-speaking volunteers to teach the Junior Achievement (JA) curriculum to grades K, 1 & 3 on Thursday, November 8, from 9 a.m. --12 noon at Columbus Family Academy. The activities are fun and hands on. The teacher remains in the class to lend a hand. All volunteers will be given all the materials and trained to deliver the program to the kids. Partnering is encouraged! You don't need an MBA to teach JA. Training is usually 15-20 minutes at their convenience. JA provides lunch to all the teachers and volunteers on the day of the event. With just over a week to go, we are 3 vols short of a full school...." Contact Joe at 860-525-4510.

How To Help | October 4, 2006

How To Help

by Lesha Daley | October 4, 2006 2:32 PM | Permalink

Although Connecticut Scholars Academy is in its third year as a New Haven high school, it still lacks some basic necessities such as lockable filing cabinets and office chairs for teachers. "Some teachers are using folding chairs," said Judy Puglisi, the school's facilitator. Going out of business? Staying in business, but getting new furniture? The school, at 560 Ella Grasso Blvd, could use your old stuff. Call Puglisi (pictured) at 946-2986.

How To Help | August 31, 2006

How You Can Help

by Paul Bass | August 31, 2006 9:33 AM | Permalink

School nurses in post-Katrina New Orleans need "new, unopened boxes of band-aids (assorted sizes); calamine lotion; cotton balls; dental floss; flashlights and batteries; gauze and gauze rollers; Kleenex; gloves; Q-tips; liquid soap in a pump; adhesive tape; thermometers; tongue depressors; and tweezers," according to the governor's office. You can drop off donations at the New Haven Armory, 290 Goffe St.

How To Help | August 17, 2006

How You Can Help: Backpacks for Kids

by Melissa Bailey | August 17, 2006 11:13 AM | Permalink

School is weeks away and youngsters at New Haven Home Recovery's emergency shelters and supportive housing units need supplies, just like the kids at Q Terrace. To help, donate a backpack -- stocked with an age-appropriate array of pencil boxes, notebooks or crayons -- for one of the nonprofit's 100 families at risk for homelessness. Bring donations to NHHR's office at 153 East St., 3rd floor, Mon. - Fri., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Toiletries, linens and children's clothes are also always needed (though women's clothes are well-stocked, notes operations manager Sara Hammerbacher (pictured)). Click here for more info, or call 492-4866 ext 10. M.B.

How To Help | July 12, 2006

How You Can Help

by Paul Bass | July 12, 2006 12:14 PM | Permalink

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.

How To Help | June 27, 2006

A Pizza's Worth of Help

by Tess Wheelwright | June 27, 2006 4:27 PM | Permalink

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.

How To Help | June 9, 2006

Taking It To The Diaper Bank

by Allan Appel | June 9, 2006 8:49 AM | Permalink

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.

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How To Help | June 2, 2006

Help Seniors Surf

by Melissa Bailey | June 2, 2006 4:28 PM | Permalink

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. Her group, the Agency on Aging, needs more volunteers to help seniors surf. Click here for Tess Wheelwright's report on how you can help.

How To Help | June 2, 2006

How You Can Help: Web-Surf for Seniors

by Tess Wheelwright | June 2, 2006 4:20 PM | Permalink

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 x 3161.

How To Help | April 28, 2006

How To Help

by Staff | April 28, 2006 8:46 AM | Permalink

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.