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Central Florida Community Action Agency (CFCAA) is celebrating 40 years of helping people and changing lives. “Our focus is alleviating poverty and helping families and individuals reach financial sufficiency, lifting residents out of poverty, improving lives and advocating for self-sufficiency,” said Charles J. Harris, chief executive officer...
As our country works toward creating a more equitable society for all, here in Alachua County our nonprofit sector has long recognized the need for more access for underserved populations and has been providing services to fill those gaps for decades. From offering empowerment groups for...
A Spanish teacher at Oak Hall School in Gainesville, Krystal Serrano along with her husband Carlos earn just enough money to make ends meet and afford childcare for their 15-month-old daughter Luna. Considering how single parents or households with only a single income source must struggle...
A helping hand from Community with a Heart has opened doors to allow a mother and her young son, who recently moved to Ocala from Puerto Rico, to remain here and seek needed medical treatment for the boy’s heart and musculature illnesses. Luz Torres, 54, of...
Ja’meka and Darius Mills began preparing for the birth of their first child together the way most expectant parents do: shopping for newborn gear and daydreaming about their baby boy. They gave him a name: Grayson Carter Mills. He would join big brother, Jeremiah, 4, Ja’meka’s son...
Dr. Karen Cole-Smith, Executive Director of East Gainesville Instruction brought together Santa Fe College’s BACK TO WORK 50+ Project Coordinator Carolyn Das with several women who are community leaders to begin collaboration on reaching women who are 50+ years old and seeking employment. Representatives of the Central...
Transportation touches everything in our modern lives. Lack of transportation impacts jobs, housing, families, education, day care, health access, food access, social opportunities, household economics, community engagement and safety. Lack of access to transportation lengthens and/or limits the pathways out of poverty. According to the Pew...
Gainesville’s poorest citizens spend 22 percent of their income on utility bills, a far higher burden than the national average for the poor and more than quadruple what most local families pay as a percentage of income. For some residents, the hardship is severe enough...
The Battillo family has struggled with illness and financial woes for several years, but their world recently got a lot brighter. “Oh, my God,” said Jennifer Battillo when the Marion Oaks family of seven was surprised with a free car from Jenkins Auto Group following a...