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December 18, 2007 (609) 292-6055
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DCA Awards Over $3 Million In Community Service Block Grants

Funds to Benefit Low Income Residents Across the State

TRENTON, N.J. – New Jersey Department of Community Affairs’ (DCA) Acting Commissioner Joseph Doria today announced the award of over $3 million in Community Service Block Grants (CSBG) that will go toward assisting low income residents across the state.

“Community Service Block Grants are about helping those in need,” said Commissioner Doria. “These funds will allow Community Action Agencies to continue the excellent work they have done for low income individuals and families throughout the state.”

CSBG are awarded to local agencies to help provide services such as health, education, employment, income management, housing, emergency services, nutrition, and self-sufficiency and other services to low-income residents in New Jersey.  Ninety percent of the annual allocation must go toward designated community action agencies.  The federally funded program is administered through the Office of Community Action, located within DCA’s Division of Community Resources.

For more information on CSBG Grants, call 609-292-9794, or log on to http://www.state.nj.us/dca/dcr/csbg/index.shtml.

2008 Community Service Block Grant (CSBG) Awards

 

Agency

County

Award

Atlantic Human Resources, Inc.

Atlantic

$194,970

Bayonne Economic Opportunity Foundation

Hudson

$37,901

Burlington County Community Action Program

Burlington

$106,381

Camden County Council on Economic Opportunity

Camden

$281,656

CATA - Farmworkers Support Committee

Gloucester

$18,178

Check-Mate, Inc.

Monmouth

$178,951

Essex County

Essex

$214,825

HOPES, Inc.

Hudson

$55,854

Jersey City

Hudson

$220,226

New Jersey Association on Correction

Middlesex

$48,939

New Jersey Community Action Association, Inc.

Mercer

$23,070

Northwest New Jersey
Community Action Program, Inc.

Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren

$161,799

Ocean Community Economic Action Now, Inc.

Ocean

$181,884

Paterson Task Force for Community Action, Inc.

Passaic

$152,020

Plainfield City

Union

$50,194

Somerset Community Action Program Inc.

Somerset

$56,020

Tri-County CAP

Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland

$224,997

Union County

Union

$196,700

United Community Corporation

Essex

$466,483

United Progress, Inc.

Mercer

$158,725

 

 

TOTAL:

$3,029,773