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Fairfield U. Responds to Community Needs Amid Health Crisis
April 4, 2020
"It's a significant amount of food," Gornicki said. "She was so moved, she just broke down and cried."
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New Haven Independent
Volunteers Sew 400+ Masks
April 2, 2020
MakeHaven volunteers have sewn 402 face masks for nonprofits and the Yale New Haven Hospital. Regina Bohn has made almost half of them.
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Middletown Press
Coronavirus challenge: Move 60 percent of homeless into hotels
April 1, 2020
In a push to help cities and towns, the state Department of Housing is looking to move 60 percent of the state’s homeless shelter population into hotels and permanent housing to help depopulate shelters and limit the spread of the coronavirus.
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Hartford Courant
Connecticut shelters rapidly moving people to hotels to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks; homeless individual tests positive in Hartford
March 30, 2020
Homeless shelters across the state are relocating many of their residents to hotels, in some cases emptying facilities completely, to prevent outbreaks of COVID-19.
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Shoreline Times
Guilford’s Cilantros prepares meals for homeless; turns shop into grocery store
March 23, 2020
While eateries and shops around her have closed their doors, Cindy Wallace has been able to keep Cilantro Specialty Foods not only open to the public, but hopping.
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Yale Daily News
Architecture students build affordable housing in New Haven
February 25, 2020
This past fall, first-year students at the School of Architecture completed the construction of a three-unit home in New Haven in partnership with a local nonprofit that fights homelessness.
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Daily Nutmeg
Out in the Cold
February 6, 2020
It’s one of the coldest nights of the winter so far. When I leave my house at 2:50 a.m., the temperature is 13 degrees. My street is so quiet and still that I feel as if I’ve stepped into a vacuum where time, like the ground, is frozen. On my drive through New Haven, I encounter only two other vehicles. One of them, it turns out, is going where I’m going: The Connection at 48 Howe Street, where more than 50 volunteers have assembled for the annual Point-in-Time Count of the city’s homeless population.
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CT post
HUD awards a combined $1.03 million to Middletown homelessness agencies
January 22, 2020
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development gave out more than $53.9 million in grants to Connecticut to support 148 local homeless assistance projects recently.
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WFSB Channel 3
Amazon fulfills local shelter's holiday wish list
December 21, 2019
Local Amazon workers have been busy getting Christmas orders ready for customers. But on Friday, they took a break to deliver one big gift to one of its neighbors.
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FOX 61
Amazon gives $10,000 in donations to New Haven organization
December 20, 2019
Amazon checked off the wish list of one organization that helps house the homeless. Executives at Columbus House had no idea that when amazon came to visit that they would be receiving donations up to $10,000.
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