Cortland County Community
Action Program, Inc.
CAPCO
Serving The Cortland New York
Community Since 1974
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Enormous amounts of food were delivered to our Early Learning Center for our Head Start families by our amazing Board member Doug Bently and Hannah Gibbons from Seven Valleys Health Coalition Food Hub. We are grateful to all the amazing staff members and volunteers that helped make this happen! Without meaningful partnerships like these, CAPCO cannot fulfill our mission. We …
Yesterday, CAPCO hosted our annual COAT GIVEAWAY! We welcomed over 300 individuals and gave out OVER 700 winter items! It was a rewarding and great day living our mission and helping families in our community. Thank you to all our caring community members who donated coats & winter items, the special knitting group who made A TON of items, as …
October is Energy Awareness Month! The CAPCO Energy Services Program is the Energy Services & Weatherization Assistance provider for both Cortland AND Tompkins counties! Program offerings are available for both home owners & tenants! Check out our Energy Services offerings here on our website: https://www.capco.org/our-programs/energy-services/ CAPCO’s certified & highly trained crew & auditors as well as esteemed administrative staff are …
CAPCO’s annual Community Coat Drive for our Cortland community is scheduled for Saturday, October 19th! The CAPCO Family Development Program is currently soliciting coat donations for this popular drive that gives away HUNDREDS of coats each season to children and families in our community. Lightly used coats of all kinds can be accepted at the CAPCO Main Office at 32 N. …
CAPCO was in attendance and recognized at the New York State Community Action Association & New York State Weatherization Directors Association Conference in Lake Placid last week with 385 of our peers from around the state! A HUGE congratulations to our esteemed Energy Services staff member, Tim Birdsall, on receiving the Weatherization Program Service Award for nearly 4 DECADES of …
CAPCO will be hosting a FREE Community Poverty Simulation on Wednesday, October 16th at Grace Christian Fellowship on Fisher Ave from 9am-12pm noon! CAPCO’s trained staff will take participants through “1 month” (i.e. 4, 15-minute weeks) of simulated poverty as they try to keep their homes, pay their bills, attain transportation, ensure their children’s needs are met, and “survive” this …
CAPCO is so PROUD and EXCITED to share with our community and the communities we serve our new WIC Director for our CAPCO WIC Program serving BOTH Cortland & Chenango counties AND the newest addition to the CAPCO’s Senior Director Team, Lori Spatola-Davis! Lori joins our team with 30+ years of WIC experience and most recently served as the WIC …
CAPCO is proud to host this informative and engaging session with a Consumer Fraud Expert on September 13. The event is hosted by Assemblymember Anna Kelles. Call or email her office to register. The contact information is listed on the above flier.
Congratulations to our very own Brandy Strauf, CAPCO’s Family Development Director, who became a Certified Community Action Professional (CCAP) and received her certificate at the National Community Action Conference in Seattle, WA last night! Attaining a CCAP is the highest professional certification in the work of Community Action, and it is a real benefit to our agency and the communities …
On Wednesday, September 25, 2024, CAPCO will be offering a viewing of the film Resilience that chronicles the first ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study and essentially the dawn of trauma-informed care and N.E.A.R science. There are a limited number of copies of this film worldwide, and CAPCO has maintained a copy of the film for the last several years. In …
