Transparency, inclusion lead to renewal

PBN Staff

09/30/2016

Melissa Husband has headed up the Community Action Partnership of Providence and its predecessor agency, the Providence Community Action Program, for four years. During that time she had to shut down ProCAP and start CAPP, all while making sure to serve the nonprofits' clients. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

The task of creating CAPP from the ashes of ProCAP was a complicated one. For starters, the federal government imposed a sequester cut and followed that up with a shutdown, which froze all contracts/funding funneled through the state to the agency. It became a challenge to keep the agency afloat and meet payroll. In fact,

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