My Nonprofit Reviews

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.

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