The Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley's take on poverty, how it affects our communities, and what we're doing about it.
by Alan Jennings Most people who know me know that I am a diehard fan of the Baltimore Orioles. I am from Hagerstown, Maryland. My family could only afford vacations returning home to visit aunts, uncles, grandparents. I learned racism …...
Hello all, Tonight’s guests on my show are bloggers Bernie O’Hare (Lehigh Valley Ramblings) and Mike Molovinsky (Molovinsky on Allentown). Both blogs are widely read and both cause just a little bit of controversy. While Bernie focuses primarily on politics …...
Most social justice movements seem to have a soundtrack. Protest songs like “We Shall Overcome” have almost anthem qualities to them. So many of them are just great songs, plus they rattled the cages of the people in power. Join …...
Bob Donchez has spent his entire career in service to others: he taught social studies at William Allen High School for decades, served for many years on Bethlehem City Council, ran former Pennsylvania Representative Joe Brennan’s local legislative office before …...
The Lehigh Valley’s cities have become a happening. Through an array of factors, including progressive civic and business leadership, activist mayors, young adults’ interest in cities, tax incentives, location, location and location, Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton are on the march. …...
Pennsylvania Representatives Ryan Mackenzie and Mike Schlossberg are finishing their rookie years as legislators. These two talented, smart, hard-working twenty-somethings are rare among partisans these days: they get along, they work together, and they want to get something accomplished. Representatives …...
From wide-eyed children to a homeless child, this is the season for and about children. The real test of our humanity is how we as a society treat the little innocents. On Lehigh Valley Discourse this Thursday, Jane Ervin, CEO …...
Matt Cartwright is nearing the end of his first year representing a gerrymandered congressional district that includes Easton and the Slate Belt. His voting record is as Democratic as the other congressman who represents the region, Charlie Dent, is Republican.…...
Lehigh Valley Meet the Buyers An Opportunity to Expand Your Business Join us for the Lehigh Valley’s first “Meet the Buyers” event to be held on Tuesday, October 22nd at SteelStacks in south Bethlehem. Over a dozen Lehigh Valley …...
I hate taking on a friend, but Tony Ianelli’s lip-synch of the payday lenders’ talking points defending a despicable loan product is pretty sad (June 26). Tony is a friend of many years. He has done outstanding work at the …...
The Friday before Mother’s Day our country celebrates National Public Gardens Day to increase awareness of public gardens, community gardens, arboretums and botanical gardens. The West Ward Neighborhood Partnership is doing our part in Easton, where we have the largest …...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information: Kimberly Stout (e) kstout@caclv.org (t) 610.433.5703 Sally Handlon (e) sally@hbrllc.com (t) 484.241.4124 Ready, Set, Expo Workshop Series to Start Lehigh Valley, P.A – Coming this Fall to businesses in the Lehigh Valley is the …...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information: Jessica Dreistadt 610-435-1490 Clearing of Site Will Make Way for Expansion of the Sixth Street Shelter The building at 221-223 North Sixth Street in Allentown will be razed beginning this morning, with …...
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY INVESTS $250,000 IN LEHIGH VALLEY MICROBUSINESSES Unique Partnership with The Rising Tide Enables Students to Learn Community Development Lending By Making Loans Lehigh University officials and students joined representatives of The Rising Tide Community Loan Fund today to …...
The United Way held a forum on the state budget today. CACLV Executive Director Alan Jennings was one of the panelists who offered comments on the governor’s proposed budget. His comments are posted below. For more information on the state …...
“With the national holiday celebrating the life of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., just days away, I will turn the attention of listeners to the civil rights movement.” – Alan Jennings, Executive Director of CACLV Sheila Michaels, a …...
I’m not sure how many of us have the time anymore to take a deep breath, clear our heads, and reflect, as we once did, on the year behind us. Maybe we don’t have any interest in dwelling on the …...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Alan L. Jennings 610-248-9900 BOSCH “STANDS UP TO SANDY” WITH $100,000 CONTRIBUTION TO RELIEF EFFORT With Another $20,000 From Catholic Charities, Fund Quadruples, Enabling More Assistance to Be Offered to More Lehigh Valley Homeowners The Bosch …...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Alan L. Jennings 610-248-9900 New Funding Will Enable Assistance to Be Offered to More Lehigh Valley Homeowners A significant, new, private contribution will enable more lower-income homeowners whose homes were damaged by “superstorm” Sandy to receive …...
By Esther Guzman, Director of the West Ward Neighborhood Partnership As I sat watching the news and thinking of the destruction that Sandy may cause based on my experiences with hurricanes in Puerto Rico, it never dawned on me that …...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Alan L. Jennings 610-248-9900 Volunteer Effort Will Make Repairs up to $1,000 per Affected Home The task force that came together to coordinate the outpouring of good will following the February, 2011, gas explosion in Allentown …...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Alan L. Jennings 610-248-9900 Details of Special Initiative to be Announced Wednesday The task force that came together to coordinate the outpouring of good will following the February, 2011, gas explosion in Allentown has organized a …...
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Among the changes that the 2012 election will bring is a new representative for Pennsylvania’s 132nd district, long served by Jennifer Mann. Representative Mann was elected at the age of 28 and served seven terms. She has lots to say …...
Contact: Janice Osborne Regional Communications Officer Telephone: (610) 865-4400 Pager: (610) 830-9771 FOR MEDIA ONLY Northeast PA food banks available to help residents See bottom of news release for complete list of Northeast PA Region Red Cross chapters and contact …...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Alan L. Jennings 610-248-9900 Early this morning, National Penn Bancshares CEO Scott Fainor announced that the company will move its headquarters to downtown Allentown in 2014. The bank will bring hundreds of employees to the city, …...
If, indeed, children are our future, as so many like to say, what might that future look like, given the many challenges our children face: declining resources for education, for intervention when they are victimized by predators, for nutrition programs, …...
How do you ENVISION the future of Bethlehem? Join Envision Lehigh Valley, tonight, October 9th at 6PM to 9Pm. Location: Liberty High School 1115 Linden Street Bethelehem, PA *** Free Childcare and refreshments available. To RSVP call 610-849-7825 …...
“The economy is bad. The economy is good. It needs to be stimulated. It needs to be left alone. It’s good for Obama. It’s good for Romney.” – Alan Jennings Join CACLV’s Alan Jennings and his guests for WDIY …...
Labor Day is the historic “out-of-the-gates” day for elections. While many have been paying attention for some time, over the next several weeks the candidates and their parties and surrogates will be pummeling voters with attempts to convert them to …...
“Labor Day is the historic “out-of-the-gates” day for elections. While many have been paying attention for some time, over the next several weeks the candidates and their parties and surrogates will be pummeling voters with attempts to convert them to …...
We welcome back to Poverty’s Edge, Sharon Alexander, Development Coordinator at Second Harvest Food Bank of Lehigh Valley and NE Pennsylvania. “What do you like most in your bag?” “Do you like grape jelly?” “What about potatoes?” These are …...
Over the weekend, The Morning Call reported that CACLV had offered a proposal to ensure that the benefits of $500 million in new development resulting from the Neighborhood Improvement Zone had a lasting impact on the downtown, its neighborhoods and …...
Community Action’s “Start Your Business” Program to Start 29th Bi-Annual Sessions The Community Action Development Corporation of Allentown (CADCA) will begin its twenty-ninth “Start Your Business” program on Monday, August 20, 2012. The comprehensive, 20-week program is held on …...
Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski has a problem. Actually, like all mayors trying to make their cities viable in Pennsylvania, the mayor has big problems. Having cut city spending to the bone, he still has major obligations such as meeting its …...
We welcome David Cool to Poverty’s Edge. Dave has been Agency Relations Coordinator at Second Harvest Food Bank for nearly a year. In that time, he has seen an incredible increase in participation at emergency pantries throughout the Food Bank’s …...
22 Additional Jobs Were Created or Retained The Rising Tide Community Loan Fund made 8 new loans totaling $219,335, making 2011-2012 its best year since it was established in 2001. During the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2012, The …...
We welcome Frank Sabatino, Weatherization Programs Specialist of the Energy Partnership program to Poverty’s Edge. Frank worked at CACLV in the 1980’s and returned in 2000. His anti-poverty work began as a VISTA volunteer in 1969. Here at CACLV, I …...
We welcome back to Poverty’s Edge Jennifer Hernandez-Reyes, the Communication and Reporting Coordinator at the Sixth Street Shelter (SSS). I was recently watching the Olympic trials for the USA teams. The look on the faces of those who won a …...
Allentown, like so many cities, has challenges that, under the best of circumstances, cause disinvestment, concentration of poverty, diminishing tax base, substandard housing and public school issues that feed on each other, accelerating as they do. Even a mayor as …...
It all fell into place at the grocery store tonight. Have you ever wondered why people who just aren’t very nice through much of the normal course of the day are so polite, patient, deferential and even friendly when they …...
CACLV has at any time an array of public policy initiatives. Sometimes we are fighting policy retreat that takes past gains away, sometimes we’re fighting to advance a progressive agenda. But we’re always in the fight. Following are some key …...
On Saturday May 19th Wells Fargo Bank will be working with residents and community leaders to make the Jordan Heights neighborhood shine a little brighter. Volunteers will plant 28 trees on the 300 block of Gordon Street, complete a …...
We welcome back Jennifer Hernandez-Reyes, Communication and Reporting Specialist at the Sixth Street Shelter (SSS) to Poverty’s Edge. I am not a garden person. Ask anyone and they’ll tell you that plants are not my friends. But as I see …...
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