The CAO will be closing early today at 2pm in observance of the Thanksgiving weekend. Our offices will reopen on Monday, December 2nd. Our DART Clinic will remain open. If you have a non-medical emergency, call 211. For all other police or fire emergencies, call 911. Have a safe and wonderful holiday!...
The Community Action Organization of Western New York is seeking candidates from Erie County to serve as a low-income representative* on our board of directors. The CAO of WNY is a private, non-profit 501c3 corporation serving Erie and Niagara Counties in upstate New York. Our board of directors is comprised of 15 members from three...
Ms. Pasicak, I will be brief because the broken record of the newspaper’s CAO coverage keeps skipping to the same tired note. Whatever journalism ethics you and the paper once had seem to have evaporated. At no time did you say that the CAO’s hiring of JWE was approved by the Office of Head Start of HHS,...
Greetings Everyone, The Buffalo News continues to wage its campaign of innuendo and slander against the CAO. Now the “newspaper” seeks to imply impropriety because the CAO’s Head Start administration used a nationally recognized, highly qualified minority-owned consultant firm to provide portions of its staff development, professional development, accreditation services and parent engagement services over an eleven...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media contact: L. Nathan Hare CEO/Executive Director Community Action Organization lnhare@caowny.org 716-881-5150 WBEN’s David Bellavia Gives CAO CEO Equal Time L. Nathan Hare, on radio program Sunday, explains recent CAO events BUFFALO, NY May 14, 2019 – Community Action Organization of Western New York’s CEO and Executive Director L. Nathan Hare defended his stewardship of the CAO Sunday and, along with...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: L. Nathan Hare CEO/Executive Director Community Action Organization lnhare@caowny.org 716-881-5150 CAO Board Demonstrates that it has Repaired Damage Done by Prior Board Leadership Board now meeting funder and government regulatory requirements BUFFALO, NY May 8, 2019 – The Community Action Organization of Western New York met Monday, May 6, and demonstrated that it has moved quickly to re-constitute the...
By Sabirah Muhammed, Buffalo Challenger One day . . . some years ago now . . . I arrived at a community function frazzled and annoyed. The program had yet to begin, so I joined a circle of friends to vent my lingering road rage. Why, why, why were drivers required to stop in every direction for school buses at...
From a Concerned Member of the Community and Proud Employee of CAO of WNY Head Start Dear Buffalo News, and “Watch Dog” CAO Head Start, does exceptional work on an everyday basis! Staff show up, ready, dedicated and enthusiastic to work with our children and families. What was reported in the Buffalo newspaper on April 25th, 2019 is...
Mr. Connolly and Mr. Spina, A brief response to your weak reach of a story yesterday. I sent you full documentation of how Ms. Dunn ordered the Grassroots table (document attached). But you chose to omit that from your story, trying and failing to link the FBI, Grassroots and CAO. Again, an inconvenient truth? Facts getting in...
To Readers of the Buffalo News, Unfortunately, as you've now repeatedly seen, the Buffalo News and its “reporters” are expert at selecting and parsing information in ways that denigrate and disrespect the CAO, relying on only limited data to claim under-performance. This is again the case with the April 25 story about our fine Head Start...