WCAC TO HOST LAUNCH FOR STATEWIDE HEATING HELP AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

Joining MASSCAP & MEDA to focus on
Home Energy Assistance Program
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 20, 2021

Contact:                                                       
Joe Diamond
Executive Director, MASSCAP
617.357.6086 or joediamond@masscap.org
 
Lisa Clay
Communications/Member Services Manager, MASSCAP
617.357.6086 or lisaclay@masscap.org

Ellen M. Ganley, Director of Development
508.762.9807 EGanley@wcac.net

 WHO:      
Congressman Jim McGovern
Senator Harriette L. Chandler
                       Worcester City Manager Edward M. Augustus, Jr.
MASSCAP Executive Director Joseph Diamond
WCAC Executive Director Marybeth Campbell
Citizens for Citizens Executive Director Elizabeth Berube
WCAC Director of Energy Mary Knittle
Cathy DiPilato, WCAC Client
                       
WHEN:         Thursday, October 28, 2021
                       9:45 a.m.
 
WHERE:       Worcester City Hall
                       Levi Lincoln Room, 3rd floor
                       455 Main Street
                       Worcester, MA 01608
 

 
WHAT:        WCAC will join with MASSCAP, the network of Community Action Agencies throughout the Commonwealth and the Massachusetts Energy Directors Association to launch its annual statewide awareness campaign to ensure that vulnerable Massachusetts families are able to keep safe, warm and healthy this winter. Heating help programs include both heating assistance and energy efficiency and weatherization programs. The awareness campaign will include television and digital advertising across the state as well as billboards and local outreach. A new video explaining the program details, eligibility and benefits will be launched at the kickoff. 
 
The Massachusetts Association of Community Action’s 23 private, non-profit human service and advocacy organizations work to administer key anti-poverty programs in every city and town in the Commonwealth. These organizations serve approximately 600,000 low-income people annually, more than half of them with incomes below 125% of the federal poverty level. 
 
For more than 50 years, Community Action Agencies have been on the front lines of addressing poverty -- administering federal programs, federal community services and community development grants, and state funds. CAAs are economic engines in cities and towns across Massachusetts, providing communities with an annual infusion of over $500 million in total resources. CAAs generate at least twice that amount helping clients become economically stable and mobile.

Speaking program will be held in-person and simultaneously broadcast via Facebook live: https://www.facebook.com/events/560042605302505/*

Please note, per city ordinance, masks will be required of all those attending in-person regardless of vaccination status.
About WCAC

Since 1965, the Worcester Community Action Council has served as the federally designated anti-poverty agency for central and southern Worcester County, with a mission of helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships and advocacy.

Serving the City of Worcester and 45 neighboring communities of Auburn, Blackstone, Boylston, Brimfield, Brookfield, Charlton, Clinton, Douglas, Dudley, East Brookfield, Hardwick, Holden, Holland, Hopedale, Hubbardston, Grafton, Leicester, Mendon, Milford, Millbury, Millville, Monson, New Braintree, North Brookfield, Northborough, Northbridge, Palmer, Oakham, Oxford, Paxton, Rutland, Shrewsbury, Southbridge, Spencer, Sterling, Sturbridge, Sutton, Upton, Uxbridge, Wales, Warren, Webster, West Boylston, West Brookfield and Westborough.
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