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Community Foundation CEO Karen DuBois-Walton kicking off radiothon: "Urgent" $4M call.
New Haven is meeting a “moment of urgency” — and you can play a part.
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Inside the Hamilton Street food pantry, kept alive to a nonprofit partnership.
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Community connectors: Winston Sutherland, Caroline Tanbee Smith, Ana Cardenas, Greg DePetris at WNHH FM.
A food pantry run by a budget-slammed agency for refugees gained a new owner Tuesday — and a new mission as a neighborhood soup kitchen.
Meanwhile, dozens of East Rockers responded to a call for new volunteers to help the refugee agency continue its work amid vanishing federal aid.
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Acting ED Bruton: Trying to raise $50K in 8 weeks.
Best Video Film and Cultural Center is reaching out for help.
The Spring Glen third space — which has morphed over the years from a cool spot to seek out the most eclectic videotapes to a beloved gathering place where performances, speakers, and other live events happen alongside rows and rows of films that are old and new (and yes, there are still some videotapes) — has launched a fundraising campaign to keep the nonprofit afloat and sailing into its future.
by | Feb 6, 2025 10:15 am | Comments (7)
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The main dish.
While some customers wary of ICE raids stayed home, Alexis Ramirez was as usual marinating sliced pork shoulder in a blend of dried chiles, achiote, pineapple juice, and spices.
by | Jan 31, 2025 11:00 am | Comments (0)
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Edward Beverly (above) and Killian Dobroth (below) performing Thursday night at Musical Intervention Studios.
“You gotta be who you are,” Edward Beverly sang Thursday night in an alcove retail space beneath the suspended concrete planet known as the Temple Street Garage, “because that’s who you are.”
Continue reading ‘Musical Healing Home Needs An Intervention’
by | Jan 25, 2025 9:30 pm | Comments (40)
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New Haven’s flagship refugee resettlement agency is hustling to raise millions of emergency dollars after the Trump administration suddenly canceled a contract to help up to 800 families start new lives here.
Continue reading ‘Trump Shuts Off $4M To IRIS; Emergency Appeal Goes Out’
by | Nov 14, 2024 2:10 pm | Comments (29)
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Matos (pictured): Getting the team ready.
New Haven’s Kica Matos is getting ready for Trump immigration raids. She needs New Haven’s help to pay the bill.
by | Jan 26, 2024 2:14 pm | Comments (14)
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Ready to fly: HSC students Jonah Rosenberg, Jazmin Rosario, Diana Robles, and Justin Welch, who worked with Japanese class to fold 1,000 paper cranes to take to Japan.
High School in the Community (HSC) junior Ty’Nique Turner will get the chance to visit Japan and try out the language she’s been teaching herself since middle school, thanks to New Haven Public Schools’ return of international adventures.
Assuming organizers can raise a lot of money fast.
by | Sep 20, 2022 7:30 pm | Comments (1)
New Haven Puerto Rican community leaders have joined with colleagues statewide to relaunch an aid effort to Puerto Rico as Hurricane Fiona ravages the island.
by | Aug 9, 2022 9:03 am | Comments (3)
Kristen Schick, coastal cleanup intern for environmental nonprofit Save the Sound, collecting trash during Sunday morning's cleanup at Criscuolo Park.
Hub cap. Fish skull. Brand new bucket hat. Bike chain. An entire picnic setup. And so, so many metal bottle caps.
These were among the items included in 200 pounds of trash collected by volunteers at Criscuolo Park on Sunday morning.
Continue reading ‘Peace Waged, Park Butts & Hub Caps Cleared On Interfaith Day of Service’
by | Apr 18, 2022 3:45 pm | Comments (0)
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Yaira Matyakubova and Lyala Stowe at gathering on Peck Street.
The room was hushed when Lyala Stowe began to speak. Her voice was soft. She is from Ukraine, and she was about to recite poems by Ukrainian poets.
Stowe apologized that most audience members would not comprehend the words, spoken in her native tongue. Regardless, the room held onto every syllable.
Continue reading ‘Violin Strings, Heartstrings, Pulled For Ukraine’
by | Apr 9, 2021 2:20 pm | Comments (3)
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Formula Pantry visionary Brenda Adkins.
Pastor Brenda Adkins refuses to stand aside while families struggle to afford feed babies: She has decided to collect formula throughout the summer to start a Formula Pantry.
by | Feb 1, 2021 10:32 am | Comments (3)
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Honda Smith and Andrea Daniels-Singleton in the kitchen before hitting the road to deliver meals in West Hills.
As temperatures swooped below freezing, New Haveners delivered sustenance to their neighbors: bags of prepared beef and potatoes for seniors in West Hills, groceries for hungry families in the Hill, Mystic cheese and locally produced honey for farmers market shoppers in Wooster Square.
Continue reading ‘1 Day, 3 Pivots: Neighbors Feed Neighbors’
by | Dec 15, 2020 1:58 pm | Comments (2)
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Rasheed at the Hill substation.
At 10 years old, Jamilah Rasheed had one used pair of shoes for school. Passed down from her cousin, the shoes were a size too small. Her family couldn’t afford anything else. A hole eventually formed in the back of those used shoes until Rasheed couldn’t wear them anymore.
She thinks back on that time as she enlists New Haveners to help a new generation of young people stay warm this the winter.
Continue reading ‘Help “NICE” Neighbors Clothe Kids In Cold’
by | Dec 2, 2020 2:38 pm | Comments (0)
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Food giveaway at Barnard last week, one of many in New Haven as hunger grows during the pandemic.
(Opinion) Imagine: You’ve just lost your job due to the pandemic, and now you don’t know how you will afford your next diaper run. Or, you can’t go to work or school, or partake in daily activities, simply because you can’t access the period or incontinence supplies you need.
Continue reading ‘Pandemic Puts Basic Health Needs Out Of Reach For Many Families’
by | Oct 16, 2020 12:53 pm | Comments (43)
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“There’s a lot of us that are still out here. I’ve known people who fell asleep outside and died.”
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“Before you could walk into the library and stay there. You could look for jobs. You could look for food pantries. Without a phone, without internet access, it’s very difficult for people living in tents, living outdoors.”
Sizing up the challenge ahead — and how we as a community can meet it.
by | May 11, 2020 2:25 pm | Comments (1)
Towers Volunteer Coordinator Sarah Moskowitz with the handmade blankets.
Women in The Towers assisted-living apartments have added homemade blankets to a Covid-era mask-making network.
Continue reading ‘Towers Residents Crochet For First Reponders’
by | Apr 20, 2020 5:19 pm | Comments (1)
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ConnCAT President and CEO Erik Clemons.
A Science Park-based job training and education center has launched a new Covid-19 relief fund geared towards raising $600,000 to provide direct financial assistance to Dixwell and Newhallville families struggling during the pandemic.
by | Apr 17, 2020 11:50 am | Comments (1)
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Picking up groceries at the DESK food pantry downtown.
A comprehensive digital guide to food pantries and soup kitchens. A drive-through farmers market with no cap on doubled food stamp dollars. Mutual aid collaborations designed to get food to immigrants in need.
Those are among the grassroots efforts in town to make sure New Haveners don’t starve during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Continue reading ‘Frontline Providers Hustle To Keep City Fed’
by | Apr 14, 2020 1:22 pm | Comments (4)
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Organizer Luis Luna at the Food Garage: Undocumented workers are frontline workers.
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Common Ground High School barn, where Food Garage team divides up boxes.
What began in mid-March with a few boxes of extra vegetables from Trader Joe’s has turned into a grassroots operation that collects donated food for around 180 mostly immigrant families a week out of a garage in Westville.
Continue reading ‘“Food Garage” Feeds Families During Covid’
by | Apr 2, 2020 2:58 pm | Comments (1)
Bohn: 60 years of sewing helps.
MakeHaven volunteers have sewn 402 face masks for nonprofits and the Yale New Haven Hospital. Regina Bohn has made almost half of them.
by | Mar 30, 2020 4:15 pm | Comments (1)
The Mary Wade Home, an historic and anchoring institution of the Chatham Square section of Fair Haven, and its largest employer, has issued a plea for donations of masks, tablets, and financial support in the wake of the rampaging Covid-19 pandemic.
by | Mar 27, 2020 11:45 am | Comments (3)
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CTCORE’s Raven Blake, Ashley Blount and Camelle Scott.
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Semilla Collective’s Sarah Eppler-Epstein and Eden Almasude.
Two groups of local community organizers have set up grassroots “mutual aid” funds with the goal of providing everything from grocery runs to educational support to direct cash assistance for vulnerable New Haveners during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Continue reading ‘Mutual Aid Teams Tackle Covid-19 Challenge’
by | Mar 25, 2020 8:12 pm | Comments (2)
Robinson demonstrates prototype for a possible ventilator system.
New Haven’s DIY “makers” are pitching in to respond to the shortage of masks and other critical supplies at hospitals amid the spread of Covid-19.
Continue reading ‘City “Makers” Sew Masks, Tweak Covid-19 Fixes’
by | Mar 20, 2020 4:09 pm | Comments (5)
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Sharon Lovett-Graff was in Edgewood Park posting emergency information — and wishing she could do it in Arabic.
Anyone out there able to help?