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Please watch this video about MCSA

Submitted by mcsahome
on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 5:21pm

Students from East Campus, an alternative school in Muscatine, have produced a video about MCSA. It includes interviews with Executive Director Maggie Curry and Deputy Direcctor Chris Steinbach.

These students, who are in grades 8-12, did a great job. We are very grateful for their interest and help in telling the story of the work we do at MCSA.

Heinz gives $10,000 to MCSA

Submitted by mcsahome
on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 1:19pm

Note: This a news release issued by H.J. Heinz Co. Click here to read a news story about the donation.

Employees at the H.J. Heinz Company’s Muscatine factory presented donations Wednesday  totaling $15,000 to Muscatine Center for Social Action and Flickinger Learning Center.

 

As part of a joint community grant program between the H.J. Heinz Company Foundation and Heinz North America to give back to the communities in which its factories reside, the Muscatine facility nominated the organizations for the grants and each then submitted a formal grant proposal.

Read our Spring Newsletter

Submitted by mcsahome
on Tue, 04/30/2013 - 1:59am

Our Spring Newsletter is packed full of information and photos about MCSA.

Day of Cleaning

Submitted by mcsahome
on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 10:28am

Melinda Larson of Trinity Muscatine New Horizons, from the left, joined Muscatine High School Students Against Destructive Decisions chapter members Sofia Arellano, Maria Franco and Camila Franco today to clean the MCSA kitchen as part of the United Way of Muscatine's Spring Day of Caring. The day was held as a way for young people to volunteer in the community.

 

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MCSA gets new bike racks

Submitted by mcsahome
on Tue, 04/09/2013 - 1:46pm

It’s a rare day at MCSA when something amazing doesn’t happen.

For me, however, today will be more memorable than most days.  Ray Verbraak of Verbraak Welding in Bettendorf arrived to install the four custom-made bike racks he built for MCSA. The wracks were purchased with a generous donation from the Melon City Bike Club and other private donations. But as is sometimes the case, once Verbraak started to hang them up on the Fourth Street side of the MCSA building, we discovered the fourth one wouldn’t fit where we had planned to put all of them.

Here's a chance to join the staff at MCSA

Submitted by mcsahome
on Mon, 04/01/2013 - 3:46pm

MCSA has an immediate opening for a part-time caseworker whose job will be to assist residents discover ways to improve their lives and find permanent housing. 

Duties include:

·         Scheduling and holding weekly one-one-one meetings with assigned residents.

·         Filing timely reports on all of these meetings, along with entering all pertinent information in the programs and databases used by MCSA.

·         Coaching residents while also holding them accountable and working with them to make progress.

 

The ideal candidate will have:

·         One to three years of

It looks a lot like Easter

Submitted by mcsahome
on Tue, 03/26/2013 - 1:09pm

Sarah Marx, left, the assistant store manager, and Manager Selene Grove show two of the 20 blankets donated Tuesday to MCSA by the new Jo-Ann Fabrics & Crafts store in Muscatine and illustrated by students from West and Central middle schools who are in Girl Scout Troop 4032. The store also donated T-shirts and fabic markers to MCSA. The items will be used by children who live at MCSA.

MCSA Deputy Director Chris Steinbach, from the left, and Executive Director Maggie Curry accept some of the 44 Easter baskets delivered by Charles Vogel on behalf of Muscatine's Catholic community.

Shelter residents helped by HNI Corp. in Muscatine

Submitted by mcsahome
on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 5:20pm

The old bathroom.

Mornings are looking brighter for residents in the Emergency Overnight Shelter in the gym at MCSA.

Thanks to a $4,000 donation from Muscatine-based HNI Corp., the shelter's renovated shower and bathroom was opened Wednesday to the six men who spent the night in the gym shelter. The work was done over the past week by North Construction of Muscatine. In addition to building the new tile shower, the workers installed new flooring and painted the entire bathroom.

Efforts to renovate the bathroom began last year when members of the HNI Social Committee chose MCSA as one of

Check out the latest MCSA newsletter

Submitted by mcsahome
on Mon, 03/11/2013 - 11:22am

Click here to read the latest MCSA newsletter.

Making and eating candy at MCSA

Submitted by mcsahome
on Fri, 03/08/2013 - 4:02pm

We're not sure what Celina Aguirre calls this homemade candy, but it is really good. Take our word for it. Aguirre is a Muscatine Community College student who is working at MCSA as a student volunteer. She made this dish for a class she taght to some resident in the MCSA Family Shelter.

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