CCA has a strong legacy of service to individuals and families in need in the New Haven Community. Please support CCA so they can continue the wonderful services and support they provide to the community.
Christian Community Action Inc. is a remarkable organization dedicated to the plight of homeless families in New Haven. Its mission is not only to provide shelter, food and counseling services designed to ease the pain of what homeless families have lost but also to inspire and help them find affordable housing and, most important, to develop their skills so they can find stable employment. I’ve been a volunteer at CCA for 4 years and have nothing but praise for the dedication of the director, Rev. Bonita Grubbs, and her wonderful staff.
Christian Community Action of New Haven is a truly amazing organization. They motivate the members of the community to help each other out while also accomplishing so much for the families in need. They truly make the most of out their resources and make a real difference in the New Haven Area. They have been achieving this wonderful work for over 40s! It is always a pleasure to make donations (clothing, food, money) since I know it is truly getting to the people who need it. Keep up the great work!
I have had the honor and privilege of serving on the Christian Community Action Board for 8 years, 4 as Chairman. Regardless of the ups and downs of financial fortunes, the Agency remains steadfastly focused on its goals of serving needy familes in New Haven, through its multi-unit housing facilities, its substantial food pantry, its many education- and work-focus programs to assist families rise above their current situation, and its advocacy programs in the political arena to make our elected representatives aware of the needs of those constituents without a clear voice to be heard. CCA is a true treasure in New haven.
I am pleased to have the opportunity to support the mission and work of CCA. I have been actively involved with the agency for twenty years. Most recently8 members of my family worked with the staff and other volunteers on the Thanksgiving Food Drive. My 7 year old Grandson has been working at this operation since he was 3. He looks forward to coming and works diligently. It is a fantastic opportunity for him to be involved with various groups in the community. i am also on the Fund Development Committee. Economics times are tough and providing needed services is a challenge.
I've been involved with Christian Community Action since 2002 and I have been inspired and impressed by the amount of work they do and how those that they help do move on and grow from help with this agency. It gives me a lot of hope when I see the efforts of everyone involved and everyone deserves all the credit in the world for their efforts.
Christian Community Action feeds and houses those in need in the New Haven area with great joy and honor. Their clients are treated with love and respect. They also take significant steps to break the chain of poverty through the Stepping Stone program that works with families to help them transition from homelessness to self-sufficiency.
I am constantly amazed by how much this organization does with so little money to help families in crisis on the road to self sufficiency.
I am a regular donor to CCA because of the people I have met that have been directly influenced by their giving! A co-worker several years ago told of an agency that helped her manage heating costs to stay warm in a brutal winter after one call and plea. This young lady is also a graduate of one of their programs designed to educate and empower parents in employment, nutrition and advocacy for themselves and their children. She received this wonderful help from CCA. I know without a doubt that what is given goes directly to those in need . Often I have observed the giving on the same day. CCA has a hand on the pulse of those in need. I pray God's blessings on this organization and the people it serves!
Review from Guidestar
Christian Community Action is an organization that is true to its creed. Consider CCA to be faith-in-action with a determination and commitment to serve those in need of food, shelter, counseling, and a time-tested program of helping those in transition from homelessness lead productive and stable lives. I have served with great pleasure on the board of directors for six years and currently chair the development committee. It is remarkable to witness the highly respected executive leadership and dedicated staff sustain an ongoing successful operation that does just what the mission statement of the organization proclaims. All those who work at CCA work hard and effectively. People's lives have been transformed. The pain of hunger is stopped. The hurt and confusion of economic dislocation is eased. Children, families, individuals have a safe roof over their head on cold winter nights. For over 40 years CCA has been serving the New Haven. However, CCA faces the ongoing challenge of needing the community's assitance to meet the growing needs of some of the poor in greater New Haven. To witness the largest meal distribution at Thanksgiving every year is to see how CCA's work to provide to those in need is so vital. There are so many organizations providing similar services across the nation but I believe you would be hard-pressed to find one doing it so effectively as Christian Community Action.
I am a relatively new member of the Board of Christian Community Action, Inc. (CCA) but it is an organization that I have thought highly of for the the 35 years I have lived in New Haven. CCA offers families in need a fresh start. Whether they seek short term basic needs like food and fuel or whether they seek longer term support with housing, job counseling and financial management CCA promotes family stability and self sufficiency. It seeks to put faith into action by supporting and empowering the people it serves. In my first six months on the Board I have been impressed with the commitment of both Board members and staff in carrying out the mission of CCA made especially challenging by the current economic downturn.
Christian Community Action has been in existance since 1967 in New Haven, CT. The organization provides vital social services and is engaged in advocacy by providing emergency and transitional housing, food and other support to those who are poor and by encouraging them in their efforts to attain self-sufficiency. And CCA works to change systems that perpeturate poverty and injustice. In spite of a bare-bones budget, the organization has grown and continues to serve those who are in need. I have been involved at CCA since 1968 in one way or another. I have volunteered my time to do jobs around the office and have worked on the newsletter. For a great many years I had been on the Board and after a hiatus of a couple of years, I am presently on the Board again. It is wonderful to see the successes that have come from the work of CCA, mostly in its work with and the advocacy group called "Mothers for Justice" and in our 3rd shelter, Stepping Stone Transitional Housing where families get more of an opportunity for education and empowerment. There is an analogy that is used at CCA regarding the giving: We "feed people" through emergency services, and "teach people how to fish" through our transitional and vocational programs, and start folks on "owning the fishery" through owning a business program, and finally, we help to "change the quality of the water so that eating and fishing would be successful" by our grassroots and public policy advocacy. In all, CCA rates so high on my list of people helping and inter-acting with people that I cannot stay away and continue to see this as my primary source for sharing time, talent and treasure.