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Taking the High Road Out of Poverty

Story By Dorothy Markulis

Community Works Connection, a division of OPEN M, is giving those living in poverty a road map to a better life.

Last November, OPEN M established a new program to give those in poverty a way out, through full employment: Community Works Connection.

“There are huge obstacles,” CWC Project Director Bob Titus explained.

Often coming from multi-generational poverty, clients in the project have no concept of how to get and retain full-time employment.
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September 4, 2015

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Hattie Larlham breaks ground on food hub processing center

Story by Connie Williams (Courtesy of the Akronist)

Hattie Larlham will add a vital community service to its garden-to-work training programs, a much needed oasis in the food desert that exists at Akron’s Douglas Street, near the Akron Zoo.

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August 28, 2015

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Need for ‘Baskets of Love’ is Never-ending

By Dorothy Markulis

The need for food doesn’t end with the holidays and one Akron church is tackling that need daily, head on.

Akron Bible Church, 783 Brown St., started delivering holiday food baskets in 1980 with a distribution of 12 baskets. Now that ministry has grown to thousands of baskets delivered all year.

“In 2009 our pastor had a vision of a year-round ministry of providing food,” said Henri Etta Fletch-Lockhart who with her husband, Rev. Larry Lockhart, directs the ministry. She and her husband are the primary volunteers.

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July 31, 2015