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Timing Is Everything For The Nearly 90 Families Waiting For Shelter
We welcome back Chris Cassidy to Poverty’s Edge, Chris is one of the Senior Planners at CACLV. Thanks for the update on the expansion of Sixth Street Shelter! With nearly 90 families on the waiting...
View ArticleIf the hunger and poverty statistics don’t move your heart… maybe their role...
We welcome back Esther Y. Guzman, director of the West Ward Neighborhood Partnership. Esther who is not a stranger on Poverty’s Edge was born and raised in Puerto Rico and is the proud mother of two...
View Article“Passed on the Information Highway”
We welcome Eric Ward to Poverty’s Edge. Eric is the Family Resource Coordinator AmeriCorps VISTA at the Sixth Street Shelter. He graduated from Kutztown University in May of ’10 with a bachelor’s in...
View ArticleNOT JUST A DREAM…
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....
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: DEMOLITION OF BLIGHTED PROPERTY ON SIXTH STREET TO BEGIN THIS...
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...
View Article2013 Annual Meeting – Alan Jennings’ Speech
On October 2, the Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley held its Annual Meeting, with 200 people in attendance. The agency boasted its 2012-13 accomplishments, introduced four people whose...
View ArticleCompletion of the Sixth Street Shelter Expansion to be Celebrated by Donors,...
The Sixth Street Shelter is hosting an open house on Thursday, November 21, at 3:30 PM, to celebrate the completion of a six-month construction project to expand the shelter. The event will be held in...
View ArticleA Better World is Up to Us
There is something about an approaching new year that leads us to assess where we are with our plans, our expectations, our hopes, and our fears. In my case, I agonize constantly over the human...
View ArticleThe Sixth Street Shelter Celebrates Families With Free Games, Food and Fun
ALLENTOWN – The Sixth Street Shelter, a program of Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley, is celebrating its 30th Anniversary with a day of FREE family fun from 12-to-4 p.m. on Saturday,...
View ArticleSecond Harvest Celebrates Successful Fundraising Campaign
New Home Dedicated to the Late Sharon Gausling The Second Harvest Food Band of Lehigh Valley and Northeast Pennsylvania celebrated the completion of its $3.3 million fund raising campaign to pay for...
View ArticleIMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trump Turns His Back on Low-Income Americans
Proposed Budget Would Shut Down CACLV Donald Trump’s first demonstration of his priorities through his proposed budget makes it very clear that the billionaire whose father set him up in business...
View ArticleHAIL MARY PRODUCES MIRACLE
I am, unabashedly, a behavioralist: let’s stop suggesting that people who are poor are in that spot simply because the economy doesn’t or can’t create enough good-paying jobs to support every household...
View ArticleCOMMUNITY ADVENT BREAKFAST
On Saturday morning, our executive director, Alan Jennings, was the guest speaker at Bethlehem’s 53rd annual Community Advent Breakfast. Here are his comments, relative to the season and the state of...
View ArticleWe Can’t Let 2019 Be More of the Same
And, so, another new year has begun. I’m guessing that most of us are more than a little scared of what might be in store for us; optimism seems to be in short supply, anxiety plentiful. Many of us...
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