Good Afternoon,
Folks-
Here are some NYSCAA News and
Updates along with other items that may be of
interest.
NYSCAA
News and Updates
Calling for a
Statewide Commission on Poverty. You can now sign onto the
letter Calling on the Governor and Legislature to form a Statewide Commission on
Poverty and Economic Security online. Visit the NYSCAA website at http://www.nyscaaonline.org/FirstPageNewsArticles/StateWidePovAndEcoSec.aspx
to add your name to the list. Once we reach a point of critical mass, we
will post the list of signers on the site as well. We hope this is an easy
way to pass along the news to others and encourage them to sign on. Thank
you to Charlie Kalthoff for raising the idea.
NYSCAA/NYSWDA
Annual Professional Development Conference and Annual Meeting. JUST ADDED A NEW SPEAKER: Mark
Mahigian, Assistant Registrations Section Chief for the NYS Charities Bureau of
the NYS Attorney General’s Office will be joining the opening plenary session
with Anita Lichtblau of CAPLAW on Legal Issues for CAAs in
NYS. Mr. Mahigian will be
covering legal issues specific to
NYS Poverty
Symposium Report Available. A summary of the NYS
Symposium on Poverty and Economic Security is attached for your review.
This summary provides a review of the speakers and key recommendations that came
out of the two days. Provided to the Community Action Partnership as a
resource for the National Symposium, this report is available on their website
at http://www.communityactionpartnership.com/events/Symposium/NewYork.doc
. It will be posted to the NYSCAA website
soon.
CSBG Legislative
Hearing. Please mark your calendars for the
CSBG Legislative Hearing on June 5th at 10:30 in the Roosevelt
Hearing Room C in the Legislative Office Building (LOB) in
Board
Nominations. Remember to get me (dharlow@nyscaaonline.org) your board
and officer (Treasurer and Secretary) nominations by May 18th.
There are 11 board seats available.
Vacation. Just
an FYI that I will be out on vacation May 14-18, 2007. Please feel free to
contact Jen Forster Green if you have any questions in my absence at jfg@nyscaaonline.org.
Upcoming
NSYCAA Board and Committee Meetings
Membership
Development Committee. The next meeting is set for
Friday, May 11th, at 11:00, at Tompkins Community Action,
Best Practices
Committee. The Best Practices Committee
will be meeting via conference call with Evelyn Harris on May 21st at
1:00 to discuss the NIQCA call. Please call 1-866-680-1500 and enter in
code 3162050# at the prompt.
NYSCAA Board
Meeting. The NYSCAA Board will meet
Monday, June 11th at 9:00 at the Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel.
Agenda and other materials will arrive next week.
Other
Items and Publications of Interest
Dyson Foundation
Issues RFPs. The Dyson Foundation as
issued RFPS for the three initiatives in the
Ø
After-school Programming in
Ø
English as a Second Language
programs
Ø
Interpretation and translation
services.
Don’t forget about their mini-grant
capacity building and strategic restructuring grants as well.
For more information, visit www.dyson.org.
From
Poverty to Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in
Half
Center for
American Progress conducted a study that proposes a strategy for reducing
poverty in this country by fifty percent. The study, "From Poverty to
Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half," sets out a series steps
to designed to reduce poverty. The steps include raising the minimum wage to
half of the annual national wage, expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit and the
Child Tax Credit, guaranteeing child care assistance for low and moderate income
parents, and others. More information and the full text of the study can be
found at www.americanprogress.org/is
sues/2007/04/poverty_report.html. The Executive Summary is a great
(shorter) read.
Welfare
Down But Poverty and Needs Up, Faith and Civic Leaders Warn Congress
Requests from the
poor, particularly for emergency services, have grown faster than resources in
the last several years and are straining Catholic Charities USA, the social
service agency's president told Congress last week. Larry Snyder, president of
one of the nation's largest private networks of 1,500 social service agencies
serving 7.4 million people annually, said the organization is receiving
increased requests from working families, single parents and grandparents.
Demand is growing in all types of communities, and more people are seeking basic
services such as housing, shelter and food, Snyder said. Click
here to read more by Roundtable Washington Correspondent Anne
Farris.
Other
Events
FDANYS Annual
Conference and National Dialogue. Join your colleagues for the
two days of FDANYS event in
National
Symposium on Poverty and Economic Security. May 29-31 in
Council of
Community Services of NYS, Inc. CCSNYS’ Annual Money
for Mission Conference has been announced for July 19, 2007 in
Thanks,
Denise
Denise Harlow
Chief Executive
Officer
(518) 690-0491,
ext. 24
Fax: (518) 690-0498
www.nyscaaonline.org
A Member of the
Community Action Partnership-Helping People. Changing
Lives
Check
out http://www.nyscaaonline.org/Events_Events_NYSCAAEvents.aspx for information on upcoming NYSCAA events such
as the Annual NYSCAA/NYSWDA Professional Development Conference and Member
Meeting, June 11-13, 2007 in