January 21, 2010
COMMUNITY ACTION CAN HELP HAITI
Since the devastating earthquakes in Haiti, several Partnership members have inquired as to the best ways our Community Action network can help. Our close following of the situation leads us to conclude that the Haitians need cash assistance ASAP, and that, for now, our most effective response is to encourage our members to donate through already established relief organizations, charities and human services groups. In the months ahead, if there is a unique role that Community Action might play, we can revisit this strategy. With appreciation to our colleagues at the Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships in the federal Department of Health and Human Services, the links to such organizations are provided below. Additionally, the AARP Foundation is doing a dollar-for-dollar match (up to $500,000) for its Haitian relief efforts and several faith-based ministries have their own funds and volunteer pools.
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Helping HaitiDear Friends,
Thank you for your displays of compassion and generosity toward the Haitian people. If you are looking for specific ways to help during this crisis, the two most effective ways right now are through cash donations and through support in locating family members. Additionally, many Haitian Americans have lost loved ones. Reaching out to the Haitian American community in your area to offer assistance is another way to contribute during this time.
Please consider forwarding this information to your local members or congregations; however, please note that any outreach is 100% voluntary.
Locating Family Members
The State Department Operations Center has set up the following number for Americans seeking information about family members in Haiti: 1-888-407-4747.
Monetary Donations
There are relief organizations accepting contributions for this effort. For those interesting in helping immediately, simply text "HAITI" to "90999" and a donation of $10 will be given automatically to the Red Cross to help with relief efforts, charged to your cell phone bill. Or you can go online to identify some relief organizations accepting donations for the disaster relief efforts.
You may also prefer to work with a trusted relief organization associated with your faith tradition or your community.
Monetary donations are the most effective form of assistance because they allow humanitarian organizations to purchase (often within the affected region itself) the exact type and quantity of items needed by those affected by the crisis. Read about the advantages of monetary donations.
Commodity Contributions
While monetary donations are preferred to commodity contributions, there may be rare instances when a commodity contribution would be of value to relief operations.• See a list of conditions which are necessary to ensure that a commodity contribution is appropriate.
• Read about handling appropriate commodity contributions.
• If a commodity collection has already been made, but there are problems identifying a need in the affected region for the commodities or an organization to accept them, read about some alternate ideas.Volunteering
Volunteer opportunities in disaster settings are extremely rare, and are usually limited to people with prior disaster experience and technical skills (such as health, engineering, etc). To register your skills and experience for a possible volunteer opportunity, go to the Center for International Disaster Information's registration page. For opportunities to volunteer overseas in non-disaster settings, visit Serve.gov. Or read about Volunteers for Prosperity, a volunteer program managed by USAID.
Stay Updated
As more information becomes available on the best ways to help in Haiti going forward, we will distribute it through our listserv for faith and community-based organizations. You are welcome to sign up for our weekly email updates to receive future updates on Haiti response and US health and human services information relevant to community and faith based groups.
This email is from the HHS Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Our Center serves as a resource for faith and community based organizations and groups seeking to increase their impact in their communities; respond to public health emergencies and disasters; share public health information, and understand federal grant opportunities and programs. Since we have received many inquiries on the ongoing situation in Haiti, we wanted to use this email to provide you with the latest information on how your organizations can assist with the disaster in Haiti.
Sincerely,
Alexia Kelley
Director, Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
OUR GREAT COLLEAGUES IN LOUISIANA
Photos courtesy Alpha Media and Public Relations
CAA Leaders from 25 States Tour Louisiana Weatherization Training Center
By Rob DohertyFrom the outside, the headquarters of the Louisiana Association of Community Action Partnerships, Inc. doesn’t look much different than the other low-slung buildings on Industriplex Boulevard in Baton Rouge.
But walk inside and you get a glimpse of America’s green future: a 10,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art center to train workers to weatherize homes.
“There’s nothing like it,” say Matt Killen, who started training at the center when it opened last September. “It is all in one location.”
The center consists of a collection of classrooms and training stations – among them cabins for diagnosing a house’s weatherization needs, a small house and wall to practice installing insulation properly, and a lab to teach how to correctly vent a home – all designed to give hands-on learning experience to the roughly 50 students who come through the center each month.
“This is my dream,” said LACAP President Gervis LaFleur, who has been involved in Community Action for more than 45 years.
So impressive is the facility that in January it attracted Community Action Agency leaders from 25 states eager to see what Louisiana is doing as they gear up to retrofit more and more homes in their regions with the $5 billion included for the federal Weatherization Assistance Program in last year’s economic stimulus bill.
Don Mathis, Kyla Johnson, Gervis LaFleur and Jane Killen
How important is that program, which since its creation in 1976 has made 6.3 million homes in low-income neighborhoods safer, more livable and more energy efficient? Just ask Kyla Johnson.
The 29-year-old recently divorced mother of four from Franklin, Louisiana, told the CAA leaders that she used to warm her house by turning on the oven after the central heating in her home broke down. Then, the St. Mary Community Action Agency stepped in and weatherized her house late last year.
“It was a Christmas gift,” she said. “We thank God, and we thank all of you for helping us.”
But, as two Louisiana lawmakers – state Reps. Michael Danahay and Michael Jackson – told the CAA leaders, the weatherization program does more than just make a difference in people’s lives.
“You have known for 30 years that weatherization make sense, that it’s efficient, that it helps save energy,” Jackson said. “It also creates jobs.”
And when it comes to weatherization, it is Community Action Agencies that get the job done – and which face an important challenge in 2010 and beyond.
The goals are daunting. Louisiana wants to weatherize 2,000 homes this year. Oregon expects to retrofit at least 4,500 through 2012 and Michigan’s goal is at least 30,000 in the next three years. But the potential rewards are great.
“Think about all the things this program does,” Don Mathis, president and CEO of Community Action Partnership, told the CAA leaders. “We’re saving energy. We’re providing jobs for people. We’re making the climate better and the economy better. In terms of bang for the taxpayers’ buck, this is the best deal going.”
From left: Chris Dunn, Weatherization Supervisor, LACAP; Don Mathis, President & CEO, Community Action Partnership with Carrie Sheffler of Black Elk Energy, Houston, Texas; and Bernard Uhl, Construction Manager/Designer, Elliott Management Constultants, Inc., Bozeman, Montana.
Note: Many more pictures from Alpha Media are available online at: http://alphamedia.shutterfly.com/526
Five weeks until NFFN’s LIHEAP Action Day, February 10, 2010
Registration Now Open
Discounted hotel rooms available until January 21It’s only five weeks until the National Fuel Funds Network’s LIHEAP Action Day, February 10, 2010 in Washington. Registration for NFFN’s LIHEAP Action Day is now open. The deadline for discounted hotel rooms is January 21. Please join delegates from across the country in the Nation’s Capital to kick-off advocacy for at least $5.1 billion for LIHEAP in Fiscal Year 2011.
Click here to register now!
We need your participation on LIHEAP Action Day to maintain and increase LIHEAP funding. Here’s why.
On December 18, the National Assistance Energy Directors’ Association released a study that shows how much of a difference the increase in LIHEAP funding made in FY 2009. A record number of households received assistance. From the study, available at www.neada.org,“The number of households receiving heating assistance reached record levels for the second year in a row, increasing from 6.1 million (5.8 million heating and 0.3 million cooling) to 8.3 million (7.7 million heating and 0.6 million cooling). Eleven states reported increases of more than 50%: California 162%, Texas 122%, Florida 104%, Nevada 80%, Arizona 80%, Oklahoma 76.3%, Kentucky 72.1%, Delaware 71%, Tennessee 62%, Oregon 55%, and Washington 54%.”NEADA also projects “an increase of 20% in the number of families applying for assistance based on initial application rates”. NFFN agrees with NEADA that “The current funding level will not be sufficient to meet the need if current trends continue. In the absence of supplemental funding, states will have few choices other than to reduce benefits, tighten eligibility requirements or close programs early.”
LIHEAP advocates have their work cut out for them to make sure that these choices will not come to fruition. Since 2003, NFFN’s LIHEAP Action Day has been integral to convincing Congress to increase LIHEAP funding to the present $5.1 billion annually. We will need to work hard to secure this level again or more in FY 2011. The action begins on February 10. We need your participation.
NFFN’s LIHEAP Action Day will begin with a breakfast briefing at 8:15 am and end with a reception 4:30 on Wednesday, February 10, 2010. The American Gas Association will provide their Capitol Hill office as central gathering place. NFFN will distribute talking points and background information, expert advice and training in lobbying for LIHEAP for a diverse group of participants.
We expect representatives from fuel funds and other nonprofit organizations, consumer advocacy programs, utility and fuel oil companies and associations, and local, state and Tribal governments. Action Day advocates will fan out over Capitol Hill with a uniform message for legislators – provide needed LIHEAP funding.
NFFN will also have a briefing and reception for early arrivals on Tuesday, February 9 at 4:30, PM, at a location close to the event hotel.
There is no charge for registration. We will update registrants on the legislative situation and other developments between now and LIHEAP Action Day.
NFFN has arranged for discounted hotel rates for February 9 and 10 at the Red Roof Inn in downtown Washington. The hotel is in Chinatown, near the Verizon Center. It is directly accessible on the Metro yellow line from Reagan National Airport, two blocks from the Gallery Place stop. The deadline for the discounted room rate at the Red Roof Inn is January 21. Please register now for the hotel. NFFN will provide bus transportation from the hotel to Capitol Hill on the morning of February 10.
Red Roof Inn
500 H Street, NW, Washington, DC
(202) 289-5959
Room Rate: $149 + tax
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For more details on Action Day, please contact NFFN Executive Director George Coling, 202-824-0660, coling@nationalfuelfunds.org. Also, please read a supportive editorial from the New York Times at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/opinion/28mon2.html?_r=1&ref=opinion.
APPLICATIONS DUE MARCH 5th
Request for Proposals: Elder Economic Security Initiative
January 15, 2010
Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) is pleased to announce the release of our Request for Proposals for the Elder Economic Security Initiative™ (Initiative).
The Initiative’s core components include:• Coalition building
• Research
• Advocacy
• Education
• OutreachUnderpinning these national, state and community efforts is the Elder Economic Security Standard™ Index (Elder Index), a comprehensive geographically-based measure of income adequacy, developed by the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Boston (GI UMASS) and WOW.
WOW seeks lead state organizations (LSOs) with whom to launch and implement the Initiative. In collaboration with WOW, these LSOs will:• Build a diverse statewide coalition;
• Provide input into the tabulation of the state Elder Index;
• Develop a statewide policy agenda to promote elder economic security; and
• Coordinate the launch and implementation of their state’s Initiative.To date, WOW has partnerships with non-profit organizations and state agencies in twelve states, including California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and West Virginia. Applications will not be accepted from these states. If you are interested in learning more about the Initiative in these states, please contact WOW.
Please forward this announcement widely.
Applications will be due Friday, March 5, 2010.
For additional information, contact Stacy Sanders, Associate Director, at ssanders@wowonline.org.
Free
Webinar: Scouting for Residential Electricity Savings
New field study reveals untapped opportunities
January 27, 2010 | 1:00 pm–2:30 pm Central Time (includes live Q&A)
Presented by: Scott Pigg and Ingo Bensch, Energy Center of Wisconsin
http://www.ecw.org/project.php?workid=3&resultid=410
The Energy Center of Wisconsin will host a free webinar, “Scouting for Residential Electricity Savings” on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 from 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Central Time.
U.S. households are plugged in—there are now about 25 consumer electronic products in every household, compared with just three in 1980. A year-long field study in Minnesota sheds new light on the make-up of this growing electrical load and behavioral opportunities to curb the growth.
In this webinar, co-principal investigators Scott Pigg and Ingo Bensch present results from "Plugging into savings," a field research project funded by the Minnesota Office of Energy Security and Minnesota Power Company. Viewers will gain insights to help residential energy consumers manage their plugged-in electronics and slay their energy vampires. For more information and to register for the webinar, please click here.
Once again, Community Action Agencies across America are in the forefront of helping low-income families enroll and access their Earned Income Tax Credit. For the past two years, the federal Internal Revenue Service has presented the Partnership with a national award for our effectiveness in promoting the EITC. On January 26th, IRS Commissioner Rick Byrd and longtime IRS colleague Beckie Harrell will meet with Don Mathis at the Partnership office to thank our network for its work and discuss the future of IRS’s Stakeholder, Partnerships, Education and Communication office (SPEC).
In preparation for EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit) Awareness Day on January 29, our great friends and colleagues at the IRS have prepared a variety of materials to help you promote this event in your local communities.
The resources page on EITC Central, http://www.eitc.irs.gov/ptoolkit/awarenessday/resources/, contains customizable templates and other tools— such as sample articles, Letter to the Editor, news release, and “tweets” for use on Twitter—to help plan your activities.
HALF IN TEN
JOBS
A Webinar on What the Federal Government Must Do
To Tackle the Unemployment Crisis
Thursday, January 28, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. EST
If you think it's a problem that 27 million in the U.S. are unemployed or underemployed, please join us on January 28.
Register Now!
Presenters:• Larry Mishel, President, Economic Policy Institute
• Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director, Center for Community Change
• Alan Charney, Campaign Director, Jobs for America Now
• Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs, ModeratorSign up Today!
There are 6.4 jobseekers for every unfilled job - and that gap is growing. Two-thirds of Americans are close to someone who is out of work. And joblessness is worst for communities of color, youth, and women who head households. The private sector does not have the capacity to rebuild employment on its own. While the investments made through the federal economic recovery legislation have created or saved over 1 million jobs so far, the recession is so deep that more federal action is urgently needed.
Congress and the Obama Administration are working on job creation plans. What should they do? How can we build support for job creation that does not leave the poorest people behind? Register for the webinar and find out.
This webinar is co-sponsored by organizations who are part of Jobs for America Now: http://www.jobs4americanow.org/.
The Jobs for America Now coalition recommends a five-point plan to create jobs and stem the unemployment crisis. The plan calls for the nation to:• Provide relief through continued and expanded unemployment benefits, COBRA and SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)
• Extend substantial fiscal relief to state and local governments;
• Create jobs that put people to work helping communities meet pressing needs, including in distressed communities that face severe unemployment;
• Invest in infrastructure improvements in schools, transportation and energy efficiency, thus providing jobs in the short run and productivity enhancements in the longer run; and
• Spur private-sector job growth through innovative incentives and providing credit to small and medium-sized businesses.
In January, 2008, the Partnership published “Rooting Out Poverty: A Campaign by America’s Community Action Network” that identified five action themes that we could use to promote economic security and reduce poverty. Rooting Out Poverty was the result of a year-long series of meetings across America, and a major decision that the Partnership made was to work with other major national organizations that also had made a recent commitment to reduce poverty. One such new organization was “Half in Ten,” so named because its primary goal was the cut poverty in America by 50% in 10 years. Following some early organizational challenges, Half in Ten is moving forward and looking for formal “endorsers.” The Community Action Partnership now is an endorser and Half in Ten is seeking state and local organizations as endorsers as well.
This month, the Half in Ten Campaign, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, the Coalition on Human Needs, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, is launching an endorsement drive, designed to help build the political and public will to make poverty-reduction a central goal of economic recovery.
We hope that your organization will consider endorsing a goal to cut poverty in half in ten years here, and clicking the action steps at the bottom to let us know how you’d like to be involved in the campaign. Organizations of national, state, and local scope are all urged to sign, and to share the organizational form with affiliates and partners. If your organization has individual membership, please consider sharing the individual endorsement form with them.
We also encourage you post the link on your twitter, facebook, and other social network pages. There’s even a form for elected officials as we hope you will urge them to support the goal. We need your help to make our campaign go viral and engage as many people as possible in the campaign.
President Obama talked about cutting poverty in half during the campaign. But it will require growing public support and a sustained ‘outside’ campaign to incorporate this goal into long-term economic planning to maintain a focus on fighting poverty in the midst of an economic crisis and competing demands. Whether your organization is a faith-based agency or congregation, labor union, small business or large corporation, service provider, community, civil rights or anti-poverty organization, student or youth group, neighborhood association, or other type of agency – we need your help to build momentum towards this goal of cutting poverty in half and rebuilding a strong middle-class.The Half in Ten Pledge:
Poverty in America undermines our country’s economic strength, hinders our ability to compete, erodes the health of our communities, and limits opportunities for children and adults. It does not need to be this way. Throughout our history, we have seen periods of dramatic poverty reduction when elected officials and people across the country have come together to secure our economy from the bottom up, and address this urgent problem.
This moment of financial and economic challenge is the right time for a renewed commitment to reducing poverty in America and to making our economy work for everyone. We must build a nation that is fairer and more prosperous, with opportunity for all. To achieve this vision, we must set a national goal of reducing poverty by half in 10 years. Doing so is not only an economic imperative, but also a moral one.
President Obama committed to a goal to cut poverty in half in ten years during the campaign. We now call on the Obama administration and Congress to outline and implement a plan to achieve it, setting clear poverty-reduction benchmarks and supporting policies that will move our country towards shared prosperity and a stronger middle-class.If you have any questions, please contact the Half in Ten Campaign Manager, Melissa Boteach at mboteach@halfinten.org.
We all know how essential it is to tell Community Action’s success stories through the media. With all the funding of and attention to Weatherization, here’s an especially valuable op-ed from Jim Crisp of the Michigan Community Action Association.
Crisp: Federal aid to weatherize home will give major boost to areaFor every $1 million invested in work, 75 jobs will result
January 14, 2010Michigan's Community Action Agencies have been weatherizing homes to help low-income families cut their energy costs for more than three decades, and they are ready to tackle President Obama's challenge of retrofitting even more houses in 2010.
This is important work.
When a low-income family spends a quarter of its income on keeping warm and meeting other energy needs, that makes it hard to find money for a mortgage payment, food, medicine and other necessities. Installing insulation, sealing drafts, properly venting a dryer and other weatherization measures can save a family $350 a year.
Understandably, demand among low-income households for weatherization services is always high, and waiting lists for the work range from 200 to more than 1,000 in different parts of the state.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act included $5 billion for the Weatherization Assistance Program, the 33-year-old federal program for low-income families.
That's a huge increase in funding for the program, which is administered locally by Community Action Agencies, and $243 million of that total is for Michigan.
The money could not have come at a better time as more and more Michigan families seek assistance to confront the unwelcome and unprecedented confluence of an economic recession, staggering job loss, high utility bills and other financial challenges.
Making a home safer and more energy efficient can offset some of that worry, and the economic recovery money will allow Community Action Agencies to do more of this work in the near future.
The state expects to weatherize more than 30,000 homes in the next three years, work that will have a positive effect throughout Michigan. For example, Capital Area Community Services, Inc. normally weatherizes 350 homes a year in Ingham, Eaton, Clinton and Shiawassee counties. That number will grow to 500 or so annually over the next three years.
That's good news beyond just the benefit to an individual family's home.
It means more jobs. The federal government estimates that 52 direct jobs and 23 indirect jobs are created for every $1 million invested in the weatherization program.
It helps the environment. Weatherized homes are more energy efficient, emit fewer greenhouse gases and improve local air quality.
And it improves a community's housing stock by adding to the value of properties.
The 30 Community Action Agencies serving Michigan's low-income families have the experience and are ready to implement a stepped-up weatherization program in 2010 and beyond. Those agencies have identified thousands of homeowners who need the help, and have hired and trained hundreds of contractors who are geared up to do the work. Their suppliers are ordering the required equipment. The economic ripple effect will be widespread and long-lasting as the energy dollars saved by Michigan residents are spent on other things.
Community Action Agencies are confident that meeting this economic, energy and environmental challenge will represent their finest hour in nearly a half century of fighting poverty in Michigan.finest hour in nearly a half century of fighting poverty in Michigan.
PEOPLE & FAMILIES IN HEALTH CARE REFORM
Thanks to Richard Hamburg and our pro-active colleagues at the Trust for America’s Health, the Partnership joined with 140+ national, state, and community organizations in advocating for funding prevention services and public health services as part of the health care reform deliberations.
January 14, 2010
Dear Majority Leader Reid, Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Hoyer, and Chairmen Harkin, Baucus Dodd, Waxman, Rangel and Miller:
The undersigned organizations would like to thank you for your leadership in including strong prevention and public health provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Enactment of these provisions would help ensure that health reform strengthens our public health infrastructure and reorients our health system towards prevention and preparedness. In particular, we would like to express our gratitude and strong support for the bills’ establishment of a dedicated funding mechanism for prevention and public health through a Prevention and Public Health Fund and a Community Health Center Fund (Senate bill); and a Public Health Investment Fund (House bill).
Public Health Funding Level
As you conference the Senate and House bills, we urge you to include the highest possible funding level for prevention and public health. The Senate-passed bill provides a combined $25 billion for its Prevention and Public Health Fund and Community Health Center Fund, and the House-passed bill includes a total of $33.9 billion for its Public Health Investment Fund. We strongly urge inclusion of no less than the House-passed amount in the final bill.
As you know, high rates of chronic disease are one of the biggest drivers of health care costs. In order to truly realign our priorities so that we can focus on health and wellness, instead of just disease treatment, we need a sustained and ongoing investment in prevention and public health, over and above current funding levels.
Public Health Fund Structure
We also urge you to ensure that the final bill provides sustained investments of guaranteed funds for prevention and public health. Further, the bill should ensure that new funding supplement, not supplant, our current investment in prevention and public health.
We now have the opportunity to make a major course correction in the way our country deals with promoting public health. We would like to thank you again for capitalizing on this opportunity through the inclusion of dedicated funding for prevention, wellness, and public health and to express our enthusiastic support for enactment of the highest level of funding possible.
Sincerely,
1. Advocates for Better Children’s Diets
2. American Academy of Physician Assistants
3. American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
4. American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
5. American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
6. American College of Clinical Pharmacy
7. American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
8. American College of Preventive Medicine
9. American Diabetes Association
10. American Heart Association
11. American Lung Association
12. American Public Health Association
13. American Thoracic Society
14. Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
15. Association of State & Territorial Health Officials
16. Arthritis Foundation
17. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc.
18. Association for Utah Community Health
19. Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
20. Association of Ohio Health Commissioners
21. Association of Public Health Laboratories
22. Association of Schools of Public Health
23. Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors
24. Association of State and Territorial Directors of Nursing
25. Beach Cities Health District (CA)
26. Bi-State Primary Care Association
27. Brooklyn Perinatal Network, Inc.
28. Bryan County Health Department (GA)
29. California Center for Public Health Advocacy
30. California Primary Care Association
31. Camden County Health Department (GA)
32. Campaign for Public Health
33. Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
34. Center for Science in the Public Interest
35. CEO Services (NY)
36. Chatham County Health Department (GA)
37. Children’s Dental Health Project
38. Christian County Health Department (KY)
39. CityMatCH
40. Colorado Community Health Network
41. Commissioned Officers Association of the U.S. Public Health Service
42. CommonHealth ACTION
43. Community Action Partnership
44. Community Catalyst (MA)
45. Community Health Association of Mountain/Plains States
46. Community Health Care Association of New York State
47. Community Health Centers of Arkansas, Arkansas Primary Care Association
48. Community Health Councils
49. Community Health Partnership: Oregon’s Public Health Institute
50. Connecticut Association of Directors of Health
51. Family Voices
52. Kentucky Health Departments Association
53. County Health Executives Association of California
54. Delaware Center for Health Promotion
55. Effingham County Health Department (GA)
56. Georgia Public Health Association
57. Glynn County Health Department (GA)
58. Hawai'i Primary Care Association
59. Health Education Network of Delaware
60. Health Justice Network
61. Health Officers Association of California
62. Health Resources in Action, Inc.
63. Hepatitis B Foundation
64. Hepatitis Foundation International
65. Huron County Health Department (MI)
66. Illinois Association of Public Health Administrators
67. Illinois Primary Health Care Association
68. Indiana Association of Public Health Physicians and Local Health Departments Organization, Inc
69. Infectious Diseases Society of America
70. Institute for Public Health Innovation
71. International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association
72. Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved
73. Kansas Association of Local Health Departments
74. Kentucky Public Health Association
75. KHMER HEALTH ADVOCATES, Inc
76. La Fe Policy Research and Education Center
77. Liberty County Health Department (GA)
78. Local Public Health Association of Minnesota
79. Long County Health Department (GA)
80. Louisiana Primary Care Association
81. Louisiana Public Health Institute
82. Maine Primary Care Association
83. March of Dimes Foundation
84. Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
85. McIntosh County Health Department (GA)
86. Mental Health America
87. Michigan Primary Care Association
88. Minnesota Association of Community Health Center
89. Mississippi Primary Health Care Association
90. Missouri Association of Local Public Health Agencies
91. Missouri Primary Care Association
92. Monroe County Public Health Department (MI)
93. National Alliance of Multi-ethnic Behavioral Health Associations
94. National Alliance of State & Territorial AIDS Directors
95. National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
96. National Assembly on School-Based Health Care
97. National Association for Sport and Physical Education
98. National Association of Chronic Disease Directors
99. National Association of Community Health Centers, Inc.
100. National Association of County and City Health Officials
101. National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors
102. National Athletic Trainers’ Association
103. National Center for Healthy Housing
104. National Coalition of STD Directors
105. National Council of Asian and Pacific Islander Physicians
106. National Environmental Health Association
107. National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
108. National Health Equity Coalition
109. National Network of Public Health Institutes
110. National Nursing Network Organization
111. National Recreation and Park Association
112. National WIC Association
113. Nebraska State Association of County & City Health Officials
114. Nemours
115. New Jersey Association of County Health Officers
116. New Jersey Health Officers Association
117. New Jersey Primary Care Association
118. New Mexico Primary Care Association
119. New York Academy of Medicine
120. New York State Association of County Health Officials
121. North Carolina Association of Local Health Directors
122. North Carolina Community Health Center Association
123. Novo Nordisk
124. OCA: Embracing the hopes and aspirations of Asian Pacific Americans
125. Ohio Association of Community Health Centers
126. Out of Many, One
127. Partnership for Prevention
128. Prevention Institute
129. Public Health Foundation
130. Public Health Institute
131. Public Health-Seattle & King County
132. Public Health Solutions
133. Society for Public Health Education
134. South Asian Americans Leading Together
135. South Carolina Primary Health Care Association
136. Special Services for Groups, Inc. - ALAS para tu Salud
137. Special Services for Groups, Inc. - PALS for Health
138. State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association
139. Texas Association of Local Health Officials
140. The AIDS Institute
141. Thurston County Board of Health (WA)
142. Trust for America’s Health
143. Tuscola County Health Department (MI)
144. United Fresh Produce Association
145. United Way Worldwide
146. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
147. Washington Association of Local Public Health Officials
148. Washington Health Foundation-Healthiest State in the Nation Campaign
149. Wisconsin Association of Local Health Departments and Boards
150. Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association
151. YMCA of the USA
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