Price Rite Marketplace has teamed with anti-hunger organization Feed the Children, as well as PepsiCo and Catholic Family Center to distribute food and essentials to 400 local families. The Wednesday event is part of the supermarket’s 2020 Feeding Minds & ...

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Lifespan of Greater Rochester Inc. has joined three dozen health, consumer and aging organizations in a bid to include a middle-class tax credit for family caregivers in the next state budget proposal. Some 36 groups cosigned a letter to Gov. ...

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Catholic Family Center has been awarded a $225,000 grant to expand its naturalization and citizenship services. The two-year Citizenship and Assimilation Grant from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will allow CFC to provide low-cost legal services for lawful permanent residents, ...

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Catholic Family Center has received more than $2 million in grants to support immigrants seeking naturalization and citizenship. As the sole awardee in Monroe County, CFC will receive a state Refugee Social Services Program award of up to $1.8 million ...

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A partnership between PepsiCo and Feed the Children will help supplement meals for 800 Rochester families in need. Now in its fourth year, the PepsiCo and Feed the Children partnership is part of a larger initiative between the two organizations ...

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Catholic Family Center at its annual meeting Wednesday awarded college scholarships to two unaccompanied refugee minors who will graduate from the Rochester City School District this week. Destalem Lemlem came to the U.S. as a refugee from Eritrea in 2014. ...

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Catholic Family Center is gearing up for its annual Adopt-a-Family program. Each year, the organization collects holiday gifts and food for families in need. In 2016, more than 100 donors and dozens of schools and businesses collected gifts for some ...

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Catholic Family Center is gearing up for its 14th annual Empty Bowls Rochester event. On Oct. 19, Kodak Center Theater, formerly Theater on the Ridge, will open its doors to patrons wishing to purchase soup donated by area chefs and ...

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