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WCAC's Third Annual Action Hero Award Event

Dr. Melinda Boone, Incoming Superintendent, WPS, Jill C. Dagilis, Executive Director, WCAC


On May 6, 2009, the WCAC held its Third Annual Action Hero Award event at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Worcester. Six individuals and/or organizations were honored for their monetary contribution, in-kind goods and services, and advocacy to WCAC.

 

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Worcester Community Action Council’s Unsung Heroine

Priscilla Holmes, WCAC Deputy Director, was recognized by the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women as one of the 100 “Unsung Heroines” of 2009 at the State House on May 13, 2009.
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Community Success Story
“I told myself, ‘This is the year I’m getting my GED,’” said 20 year-old Lydell Moore, as he discussed his three attempts since 2005 to finish his General Equivalency Lydell MooreDiploma (GED). He wanted to get through the holidays and start 2008 with his “mind set” on completing the program.

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Welcome to WCAC

Our mission is to stimulate change in the fundamental causes of poverty and to create and provide opportunities for economic self-sufficiency through services, partnership, and advocacy.

 

The Worcester Community Action Council was started in 1965 as the locally designated "community action" agency for the Economic Opportunity Act. Today, we serve as an umbrella agency for 21 education and social service programs.
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In the Spotlight

Speech from WCAC Annual Meeting

I am honored and pleased to be here with you tonight.

 

The Worcester Community Action Council has been an important part of the day to day activities of this city and region since 1965. Perhaps, however, in all those many years since it began, its work has never been so needed, never been so crucial, to the members of our community as it is now.

 

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