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Housing Now! Launches First Volunteer-Based Home Rehab Project!

Housing Now! is a new program of the Access Community Action Agency that rehabilitates multi-family homes to provide safe and affordable housing to the region's working families. The program uses a combination of local contractors, volunteer labor, in-kind support, and monetary donations on its projects.

Housing Now! Needs volunteers for its very first multi-family home rehabilitation project. We are looking for individual community members, business and organization teams, college students and youth, and more. All volunteers have the option to join the Windham Area Hour Exchange to earn "time dollars" for their Housing Now! volunteer efforts!

You don't have to be skilled in any of the construction or finishing trades to participate. We welcome volunteers with all levels of experience ... from experts to enthusiastic learners. And, if construction isn't your speed, there are numerous other volunteer opportunities associated with the project that don't require you to swing a hammer.

Click here to learn more about how you can improve local familes' lives and help our whole community.


The Pulse 2013: A Community Needs and Assets Assessment

On 3/19/13 the Pulse of the Commuity 2013: A Consolidated Report on the Capacity of Northeast Connecticut to Meet the Needs of its Communities received airtime on WECS radio here in Willimantic, CT!  

The Pulse is a needs and assets assessment of Windham and Tolland counties, which is being coordinated by the Access Community Action Agency in collaboration with partner organizations and community members.

To do this well we need your help!  Over the next eight months, we will be creating a highly participative, systematic process to produce a 3-part report.  For more information on how you can get involved, please visit  sites.google.com/site/communitypulse2013/ or email jen.caruso@accessagency.org for more information.

We look forward to hearing from you!


Program Partners

We would like to thank the individuals, foundations, and corporations who support the Access mission.

  • Dolly Von Husen
  • Caring & Giving Campaign Savings Institute
  • David Gaudreau, O.D.
  • Erik Swanson
  • Brenda Soileau
  • Lissette Soto
  • Dubois United Way of Central & NE CT (2)
  • Leslie Dutil
  • Parrish Protheroe
  • Charles Chatterton, Jr.
  • Brownstone Exploration & Discovery
  • Carmen Cruz
  • Carol Shea
  • Lindsay Kyle
  • Town of Scotland
  • Jennifer Smith
  • Jeffrey Rawson Rawson Materials
  • Amica Companies Foundation
  • Ann Kouatly
  • Sherry D'Alessandro
  • Carmel Osterlund
  • Katelyn Dupointe
  • Bob and Leslie O'Connell
  • David Pinney
  • Terrence O'Brien
  • Lynn Legary
  • Atty. John Horak
  • Dorothy Delvalle
  • Mitch Beauregard
  • Rusty Lanzit
  • Samuel Gordon
  • Lefkowitz, Garfinkel, Champi, Derienzo
  • Ronald Goldstein
  • Harry and Honey Birkenruth
  • Shana and Rob Heon
  • Olga Kurnyk-Ezis
  • Jody Aubin
  • Carol Kraus
  • Christopher Hagen
  • Kathleen Martin
  • Christ Church of Pomfret
  • Jessica Sacilowski
  • Dorene Reale
  • Putnam Bank
  • Donna Johnston
  • Judy Blakeley
  • Alejandro Fuentes
  • Mae Flexer
  • Rachel Heath
  • Richard Smith
  • Mayor Peter Place Town of Putnam
  • Lauren Cheslick
  • Peter DeBiasi
  • Cindy Dupointe
  • Karen and Michael Credit
  • Jessica Rodriguez
  • Hugh and Cynthia Casey
  • Congregational Church of Thompson
  • Mark Light
  • Atty. Christian Sarantopoulos Sarantopoulos & Sarantopoulos
  • Donna Tomasso
  • Catherine McNeill
  • The Richards Family Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
  • Peter Mann
  • John Potvin
  • Gail Kennedy
  • Melissa Burdick
  • Samantha Abbamonte
  • Carol Hnath, Sec. Quinebaug Pomona Grange #2
  • Killingly, William Macnamara St. James Council Knights of Columbus
  • Mary Lou DeVivo
  • Angelique Roberts
  • Brenda Mitchell
  • Generations Family Health Center
  • Lawrence Carey
  • Anthony Guglielmo
  • James Goodwin
  • Doug Cutler
  • Atty. Nicholas Longo
  • Joan Bourque
  • Luz Torres
  • Linda Auger Taylor Brook Winery
  • Phillip and Jamie Elliot
  • Carlin Construction Company
  • Maggie Appleton
  • Gomez United Way of Central & NE CT
  • Jo-Ann Heath
  • Jessica Stomberg
  • Veronica Gomez
  • Killingly Quiet Corner Lion's Club
  • Deborah Lax
  • Ann and Bruce Branchini
  • Joelen Gates
  • Joy Hollister
  • Ines Rolon
  • Damaris Ruiz
  • Marlene Cady
  • Joan Dunham Foster Corporation
  • Carla Demers
  • John Folsom
  • Kate Fortier
  • Mike Russi R & R Insulators
  • Bianca Jimenez
  • Robert Dubois, II
  • KJ Cote
  • Mary Lenzini
  • Teachers/Staff Pomfret Community School
  • Sandy Barton
  • Kristian Lester
  • Matilde Casoni
  • Claire LaBelle
  • Howie Bursen
  • Ronald and Christine Robinson
  • Rebecca Mather
  • Giselle Ortiz-Ruiz
  • Kristen Haddad
  • Putnam Emblem Club #209
  • Douglas Warner
  • WCGCS Hannah McNally Federated Church of Christ
  • Karen and Robert Dyson
  • Angela Bachand
  • Patricia Gaenzler
  • Shirley Riemann
  • Ken Avery
  • Dan Rose
  • JoAnn Chenail Danielson Rotary
  • Amplisound
  • Daniel Coleman
  • Helen Scanlon
  • Kathryn Pianta Bob's Discount Furniture
  • Rene Comtois PAP Auto & Hardware
  • James Correira
  • Anonymous
  • Richard Place Putnam Ford
  • Rebecca Mainville
  • Saslow Lufkin & Buggy, LLC
  • Melissa Phillips
  • Rev. Howard Meyer Hampton Congregational Church
  • Kathy Crees
  • Scott Johnson Scott's Cyclery
  • Rabbi Jeremy Schwartz Temple B'nai Israel
  • Gregory and Cheryl Thomas
  • Staples
  • Eastern CT State University
  • Thomas and Joanne Kasprzak
  • Karen Lechene
  • Town of Brooklyn
  • Anthony Reale
  • Erin Noren United Way of Sourtheastern CT
  • Jeff Landon Landon's Tire
  • Jo-Ann Barrows
  • Yanaira Morales
  • Kathy Mitchell
  • Bruce Goldstein
  • Rev. Ray Introvigne St. Mary's Church, Coventry
  • Anne Moore
  • Rich Curtis Loss Solutions Group
  • Ann Gruenberg
  • David Shadbegian
  • Arvind and Margherita Shaw
  • Hugh & Vaughn Durham True Value Cash Home Center
  • Raymond Congelosi
  • Jennifer Witter
  • Gerardi Insurance Services
  • Danielle Deschenes
  • Town of Chaplin
  • Yesenia Figureroa
  • Mary Jean Sznurkowski
  • Visiting Nurse Assn. of SE CT
  • Myrna Romero
  • Steven and Lorna Fairless
  • Patricia Pheanious
  • Gary and Donna Arpin
  • Stephen and Joan Garfinkel
  • Mike and Elaine Bernier
  • Mary DeMarco
  • Michael Weitz Design Center East
  • Robert & Leslie Westhaver
  • Cynthia Perkins
  • Virginia Valentine
  • Dahianna Rodriguez
  • Cathy Whitehead
  • Jasaira Rivera
  • Smith Insurance
  • Atty. Thomas Borner Borner, Aleman & Davis, LLC
  • Stephen Broderick

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