Junta strives to overcome cuts
Rebounding from the brink of collapse in its 40th anniversary year, Junta for Progressive Action is working on a financial plan to keep its doors open.
Eight months after Gov. M. Jodi Rell threatened to cut all state funding for Junta, nearly halving its $500,000 budget, officials for the city’s oldest Latino community organization will solicit more donations from its clients to split its finances from the state.
“If we continue to grow as we are now and [the] state cuts funds two years from now,” Junta Development Director Latrina Kelly said, “we will be in a good position to...
