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40 Hartford Business Journal•November25,2014 www.HartfordBusiness.com Our story starts in 1973 when a group of churches decided to make a difference in the lives of people who needed help in the greater Manchester area- and what a difference they made! You can't make this up. www.macc-ct.org | 860-647-0440 A homeless woman came to our emergency shelter in need of help with serious mental health issues… a few years later we were invited to her graduation ceremony from college. A man with an addiction agreed to treatment after jail time and started his own legitimate business. He now comes to MACC each year with a large financial donation and a charge to us not to give up on the "hard" people who are difficult to work with. A young mother brought her bouncing baby boy into the soup kitchen to show our cook what good came from the warm and nutritious meals she enjoyed when she was expecting her first child and her part time job was not enough to pay her rent and buy food. MACC is a story of ordinary people falling on hard times and of extraordinary people bending down to lift them up. Every name has a story and every story matters.

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