February 25, 2010
Anita Lichtblau, CAPLAW's Executive Director and General Counsel, and her team of experienced experts are offering a series of audioconferences that can help Community Action veterans and newcomers make sure that their agencies follow and meet federal guidelines and regulations. There are registration fees for these sessions. The 1st session is on February 26th. Please see the schedule below.
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Back to the Basics for CAAs
Register Now!Whether you are new to Community Action or a veteran of the War on Poverty, join CAPLAW for an introduction to and overview of critical legal issues affecting Community Action Agencies (CAAs). Attend one session or all four!
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Introduction to CSBG
February 26, 2010, 1p.m. Eastern time
Level: Overview, CPE Field of Study: Specialized Knowledge and Applications
Explore the ins and outs of the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Act, the linchpin of the current Community Action movement. Join us for a discussion of: the composition, roles, and responsibilities of tripartite boards; limitations on the use of CSBG funds; allocation, payment and carryover of those funds; reduction and termination of CSBG funding; and designation of new entities eligible to receive CSBG funds.
Presenter: Eleanor A. Evans, Esq., CAPLAW Deputy Director/Senior Counsel
Right on the Money: Complying with OMB Circular A-122
March 26, 2010, 1p.m. Eastern time
Level: Overview, CPE Field of Study: Specialized Knowledge and Applications
Compliance with OMB Circular A-122 - the federal cost principle circular for nonprofits - is crucial for CAAs and other organizations receiving federal grants. This audio conference will provide an overview of the circular's general principles, how to distinguish between direct and indirect costs, and different methods for allocating indirect costs. Using CAPLAW's annotated guide to A-122, this session will also examine selected items of cost - both the plain language of individual rules and how to apply the principles in combination to particularly thorny issues faced by grantees. CAPLAW's A-122 guide will also be offered at a reduced price to all conference registrants.
Presenter: Kay Sohl, Nonprofit Financial Consultant, Kay Sohl Consulting
501(c)(3) Fundamentals
April 23, 2010, 1p.m. Eastern time
Level: Overview, CPE Field of Study: Taxes
A nonprofit's federal tax-exempt status is one of its most valuable assets. Review the do's and don'ts of protecting that status. This audio conference will cover: definitions, advantages and basic requirements of tax exemption under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3); restrictions and prohibitions on 501(c)(3) organizations - including lobbying and political activity, transactions with insiders, and unrelated business activity; fundraising receipts and disclosures; and the IRS Form 990. Presenter: R. Allison Ma'luf, Esq., CAPLAW Associate Counsel
Lobbying Legally and Effectively: The Rules of the Road
May 21, 2010, 1p.m. Eastern time
Level: Overview, CPE Field of Study: Specialized Knowledge and Applications
Involvement in public policy issues is a must for organizations working to improve the lives of low-income people. In this session, examine the rules that apply to lobbying by CAAs, Head Start programs, and 501(c)(3) organizations and find out how to advocate effectively within those rules.
Presenter: Anita Lichtblau, Esq., CAPLAW Executive Director/General CounselREGISTRATION AND FEES
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The 2010 National Community Action Month (May) Planning Guide, “Community Action: The Power of Partnerships,” is designed to help you tell your partnership stories as you celebrate your CAA’s success working with other groups and individuals to help low-income Americans achieve economic security, especially in these tough financial times. The guide contains sample news releases—which can be tailored
to reflect how your agency has established and maintained partnerships to fight poverty—a sample Community Action Month proclamation, and examples of successful local and national Community Action partnerships.
Also included are nomination forms for the Partnership’s Sargent Shriver Achievement and Jayne Thomas Grassroots Volunteer Awards. Award winners will be honored during the 2010 Annual Convention in Boston, which also features the theme “Community Action: The Power of Partnerships”
Thanks to Judy Conti and our great colleagues at the National Employment Law Project, the Partnership signed on to a letter to Senate and House leadership, requesting action to extend Unemployment Insurance and subsidized COBRA coverage.
February 18, 2010
The Honorable Harry Reid
United States Senate
S-221 Capitol Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
The Honorable Richard Durbin
United States Senate
S-321 Capitol Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
The Honorable Max Baucus
United States Senate
511 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
United States House of Representatives
H-232 Capitol Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
The Honorable Steny Hoyer
United States House of Representatives
H-107 Capitol Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
The Honorable Charles Rangel
United States House of Representatives
2354 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
The Honorable James McDermott
United States House of Representatives
1035 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
The
Honorable Mitch McConnell
United States Senate
S-23- Capitol Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
The
Honorable Jon Kyl
United States Senate
S-208 Capitol Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
The
Honorable Charles Grassley
United States Senate
135 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
The
Honorable John Boehner
United
States House of Representatives
H-204 Capitol Building
Washington,
D.C. 20515
The
Honorable Eric Cantor
United States House of Representatives
H-307 Capitol Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
The
Honorable David Camp
United
States House of Representatives
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Cannon House Office Building
Washington,
D.C. 20515
The
Honorable John Linder
United
States House of Representatives
1026
Longworth House Office Building
Washington,
D.C. 20515
Dear Congressional Leaders:
We are writing to strongly urge the Senate and the House of Representatives to act immediately to continue the Recovery Act’s aid to the jobless as a stand-alone measure through the end of 2010.
Congress and President Obama took bold action one year ago to enact major benefits for today’s jobless families, including the extension of jobless benefits and subsidized COBRA coverage. Subsequent expansions of the program, including the 14-20 week expansion of Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC), have also gone a long way to respond to the severity of the crisis of long-term unemployment that has now gripped the nation, with more than 40% of all unemployed workers still struggling to find work after six months and more than six unemployed workers looking for every available job.
While the jobless aid provided by the Recovery Act has been significant, the decision of Congress to adopt limited extensions of the program have caused severe hardship, both for unemployed workers and the state systems that are struggling with severely outdated equipment and insufficient staff and resources to process over 10 million unemployment checks each week. Indeed, as result of the limited two-month extension that expires February 28th starting in the week of February 15th, the states will be forced to spend time and resources they can ill-afford to waste notifying workers that the extended UI programs are shutting down. They will also need to start reprogramming their computers to implement the required shut-down as of March 1st.
If Congress does not take final action by February 22nd, the states will no longer be in a position to reverse the process and there will be mass confusion among desperate workers whose only means to pay their groceries and housing is their limited unemployment benefits. Moreover, the delay will wreak havoc on the state agencies as a result of the extra work
required to shut down the programs and the immediate need to respond to the flood of phone calls that will start coming in from panicked workers.
By every economic indicator, the extension of jobless aid provided by the Recovery Act should continue through the end of year. As recently documented by the Congressional Budget Office, the extension of jobless aid also provides the most significant boost to the economy and job growth of any policy option being debated by Congress. It provides $1.90 in stimulus for every
dollar spent, and will be responsible for creating 800,000 jobs this year alone. In spite of the importance of this program, the House of Representatives passed a jobs bill in December that includes an extension of jobless aid only through June and the recent draft of the Senate jobs bill only continues the program through May.
Given the severity of the crisis and latest evidence of the problems associated with a short-term continuation of the program, these limited extensions of jobless aid can no longer be sustained. These short-term extensions simply do not measure up to the realities facing unemployed workers in today’s economy or to the serious challenges facing the state agencies that process the benefits.
Accordingly, we call on Congress to enact a stand-alone continuation of the jobless aid provisions of the Recovery Act as its first measure of business when it returns from recess, and to continue the program through the end of the year.Sincerely,
(The Partnership signed this letter as did the Center for Law and Social Policy, Coalition on Human Needs, Common Cause, Food Research & Action Center, Half in Ten, NAACP, National Association of Social Workers, National Urban League, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, and more than 150 other national, state, and local organizations.)
OUT-OF-WORK WITH GREATEST NEEDS
Thanks to Susan Rees and our other great colleagues at Wider Opportunities for Women for the opportunity to sign on to this letter to Congress in support of a substantial jobs bill.
Dear Member of Congress:
The undersigned organizations urge you to act thoughtfully and expeditiously to put Americans back to work. In doing so, we urge you to consider the particular needs of women workers who soon for the first time since World War II will comprise half of the American workforce.
Current levels of unemployment are dangerously high among households that rely solely on women for their support. In December, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for women householders age 20 or over with no spouse present was 12.9 percent. Among African Americans, it was 15.2 percent, and Hispanics, 12.1 percent. Most of these are women supporting their children, but increasingly they include older women who need to continue working past normal retirement age. Last November, the USDA reported that one in three single mothers had struggled for food during 2009 and that more than one in seven said someone in their home had been hungry.
In addition to simply lacking work, women face other employment barriers. At some point in their lives, most women face the dual responsibilities of work and caregiving for children and adult family members. One result is that women often take part-time work although employers are not required to provide proportionate benefits. Women caregivers also require dependent care assistance and workplace policies that accommodate caregiving. Most women need, or would benefit from, additional education and skill training in order to obtain jobs in occupations that pay self-sufficiency level wages within their community. A majority of women workers earn only about two times the federal poverty line, or $29,140 in 2010 for a mother and one child, partly due to the narrow range of occupations they occupy. In 2008, one-half of all working women (50.7%) were clustered in just 25 of 504 BLS occupational categories. The median wages of those 25 occupations were only $573, or $29,796 per year. Outside of nurses and teachers, most of these occupations are in clerical, service or personal care sectors.
According to the Council of Economic Advisors, the U.S. economy appears to be shifting toward jobs that require workers with greater analytical and interactive skills. Thus, enabling women to support their families will also and contribute to the skills needed for a globally competitive workforce in the U.S. Therefore, we urge Congress and the Administration to:
Provide refundable tax credits for new nonprofit jobs. Women comprise two-thirds of the workforce of nonprofit organizations, which are struggling in the recession as a result of declining contributions. There are approximately one million public charities registered as 501(c)3 organizations by the IRS, and about half of them provide caregiving services in the areas of education, health care, housing assistance, youth development, human services, mental health, crisis intervention and neighborhood improvement. Nonprofits would be eligible for President Obama’s proposed small business tax credit
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/FACT_SHEET_Small_Business%20_jobs_and_Wages_Tax_Cut.pdf . The $5,000 refundable tax credit would be for every new employee hired in 2010 at a salary of at least $7,000. Nonprofits would receive the credit as part of their quarterly Social Security filings. The proposal would also subsidize a portion of net new hours and wages over the previous year’s payroll to for both nonprofits and small businesses.
Promote equal pay and inclusive hiring in nontraditional occupations for women. Jobs typically held by women pay substantially lower wages than those typically held by men, and even when employed in the same occupation women often earn less. Occupational segregation and the gender pay gap inhibit economic development. Proposals for investment in infrastructure, energy efficiency, school repair and advanced manufacturing will likely perpetuate demographic differences without specific action. Where federal subsidies are used to create jobs in such occupations as construction where women and people of color are grossly underrepresented in the workforce, fund recipients should be required to assure that they will hire a certain number of underrepresented workers through high qualified apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs that ensure a skilled workforce while increasing the employment of women and people of color.
Save jobs in state and local government and education. State and local governments are in the process of planning new rounds of layoffs and furloughs of teachers, public safety, health and other workers providing essential services. Women are both providers and consumers of these services. According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, women comprise 45.5 percent of full-time and 55.5 percent of part-time state and local employees. State and local employers often serve as a model for equal wages for equal work and comparable pay for comparable work in a workplace that offers thee flexibility necessary to meet women’s dual roles as workers and family caregivers.
Promote self-employment and small business development. Among U.S. local business start-ups, microenterprises account for 18 percent of all private U.S. employment. Micro-businesses provide a pathway out of poverty for many women, particularly those who are immigrants. Research suggests that women tend to hire other women, increasing the likelihood that these employees will find pathways into the middle class and develop assets that will pass across generations. The Small Business Administration’s $57 million increase in its microloan program under the Recovery Act should be extended in order to fund qualified nonprofit community-based lenders who, in turn, provide microloans of up to $35,000 to local entrepreneurs and small business owners along with technical assistance and training. In addition, we support the Administration’s small business tax proposal that would enable start-up entrepreneurs to claim one-half the $5,000 tax credit for newly hired employees.
Provide stipends and subsidized wages for youth and adults while they develop job skills in high-growth sectors. Wage subsidies should be enhanced through the Department of Labor’s Workforce Investment Act programs for youth employment, on-the-job and customized training with private employers, transitional jobs, internships and try-out employment. Subsidized on-the-job training in the private sector should be tied to a commitment to make the job permanent at family-sustaining wages. The TANF emergency fund enacted in the Recovery Act supports subsidized employment programs and should be extended through 2012. Stipends for needy students authorized in ARRA should be extended to assist single parents attending community college and upgrading their skills.
Increase investment in adult education, career and technical education and skill development. To equip women and all workers for jobs in the high-growth sectors of the 21st century, it is vital that Congress increase resources for basic skills education and job training.
Highest priority should be given to reauthorizing the Workforce Investment Act and enacting the American Graduation Initiative, the Women & Workforce Investment for Nontraditional Jobs Act (Women WIN Jobs Act) and the Pathways Advancing Career Training (PACT) and the SECTORS Acts. Women will be more likely to obtain career pathways leading to economic security if all levels of education and job training were aligned and sufficiently resourced to fund the support services and career counseling they need in order to obtain the credentials necessary for career advancement. In this way, the system will serve the needs of women at all skill levels while supplying business with the workforce it needs to innovate.
Extend unemployment insurance and COBRA assistance. Emergency unemployment compensation and the Recovery Act’s 65 percent COBRA subsidy to help families continue health insurance set to expire at the end of February. These forms of income support, along with SNAP, refundable tax credits and are essential to help sustain families. If curtailed for any reason, both families and community businesses will bear the brunt.
Overall, our economy is in need of a jump start. Moreover, as women near 50 percent of the workforce and more frequently assume the roles of family breadwinner, they cannot become an afterthought in the recovery. Currently, women earn about 77 cents for every dollar that men earn and hold 63 percent of minimum wage jobs. To spur economic growth, meaningful steps must be taken to create jobs, eliminate pay inequity, accommodate workers’ caregiving responsibilities, and provide sufficient wages to support families.
We appreciate your consideration of these concerns and look forward to working with you as you develop policies to counter the debilitating effects of unemployment.
Sincerely,
National Organizations/District of Columbia
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Center for Women Policy Studies
Coalition of Labor Union Women
Community Action Partnership
DC Employment Justice Center
First Focus Campaign for Children
Legal Momentum
National Council of Jewish Women
National Council of Women's Organizations
National Employment Law Project
National Skills Coalition
NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
PHI (Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute)
The Praxis Project
Tradeswomen Now and Tomorrow
Transitional Housing Corporation (THC), Washington, DC.
Wider Opportunities for Women
Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement
Women's Research & Education Institute(About 50 other state and regional organizations also signed this letter.)
NEW JOB CREATION INITIATIVES
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who also served as DOD Secretary in the previous Bush administration, and former Bush administration appointee Lawrence Korb (now at the Center for American Progress) have called for the elimination of numerous non-essential DOD projects and programs. None of these proposed cuts would jeopardize our national security, nor would these cuts in any way undermine or hurt America's troops overseas or in the US. The Partnership joined with the Budget Priorities Working Group in signing the letter to Congress below calling for greater DOD spending efficiency.
Here is the URL for the invitation and letter on the budget resolution and appropriations subcommittee allocations: http://www.wand.org/BPWGFY11.pdf. The text is also attached and included below. Groups need to sign on by March 3 by providing the information requested to budget@wand.org.
February 2010
Dear Friends,
The Budget Priorities Working Group* invites your group to sign onto our letter to Members of Congress regarding the Fiscal Year 2011 budget resolution and appropriations subcommittee allocations. (Letter included below.)
We need your response by March 3. Thanks!
We have been working on federal budget priorities for many years. This year, a number of pundits, politicians, and regular folks are pointing a spotlight at the military budget, especially since it was excused from the “discretionary spending freeze” in the President’s budget. As competing needs for domestic security grow, we are seeing a new public awareness and accelerating movement for a change in our nation’s budget priorities.
We invite you to join us in taking advantage of this moment by sending an important letter urging Congress to redirect savings from Pentagon spending to job creation, in order to keep Americans safe and healthy at home.
This letter (see below) is about the coming Fiscal Year 2011 (FY11) budget resolution and the appropriations subcommittee allocations which Congress will soon consider. The letter will go to all Senators and Representatives. It tells Congress that any attempt to rein in discretionary spending should not leave out more than half of the total — the part that supports Pentagon spending, and that savings from these reductions in the Pentagon budget should be redirected to job creation.
We invite organizations to sign the letter: community groups, religious organizations and congregations, human needs groups, environmental groups, women’s groups, etc. We hope to have an especially impressive number of organizations signed on this year. This is a time when we need to do all we can to bolster our nation’s economic health.
You are welcome to forward this opportunity to organizations that you know and ask them to send their approved organizational name and contact information – including:• Name of Organization
• City and State where its headquarters are
• Email address for the person who signs the group on
• Whether this organization is a national group (represents people nationwide and has nationwide membership), or a regional group (represents people in several states) or a state or local group. Some groups that sign will be chapters or affiliates of national organizations – If so, please identify the national organization with which you are affiliated.Please send this information to Marie Rietmann, Budget Priorities Working Group co-chair and Women’s Action for New Directions Public Policy Director at budget@wand.org.
The deadline for groups to sign the letter is March 3.
*Washington DC-based NGOs working together to influence Congress on security budget issues
REDIRECT SAVINGS FROM NONESSENTIAL MILITARY SPENDING TO ALTERNATIVE JOB CREATION
March 8, 2010
Dear Senator/Representative:
As you consider the FY11 budget resolution and appropriations subcommittee allocations, we urge you to include savings in nonessential Pentagon spending. The Administration’s FY11 baseline Pentagon budget request increases spending by 3.4% over FY10. In the request, the $447 billion in discretionary spending that is not security-related is proposed to be frozen at current levels for three years. By exempting security accounts from the proposed spending freeze, the Administration is ensuring that the freeze will have only a marginal effect. The $733 billion military budget request dwarfs the $447 billion the Administration proposes to freeze. A serious initiative to rein in the discretionary budget cannot leave out more than half of that budget.
According to a 2009 report from the Government Accountability Office, the Department of Defense has amassed cost overruns of $295 billion on weapons programs currently in the pipeline. That's more than the proposed freeze in domestic spending is projected to save over the next ten years.
At a time of soaring budget deficits and a struggling economy, we can no longer afford to underwrite weapons programs that are outdated, unworkable, overbudget or all three. While the Administration has tried to find some efficiencies in Pentagon spending, it has backed away from its initiative last year to cut major weapons systems. We urge you to scour the procurement budget and the research and development budget for reasonable reductions that can be made without sacrificing national security or undermining our troops.
Savings from these reductions should be redirected to alternative job creation. While strategically dubious weapons procurement is often sold as a jobs program, the evidence points in another direction. While military spending of course does create jobs, a study by University of Massachusetts economists* found that public dollars invested in clean energy, health care, and education, will all create significantly more jobs within the U.S. economy than investing an equivalent amount in the military. Moreover, these alternative investments all increase the productivity of the economy as a whole. We urge you to take the findings of this study into account as you consider job creation legislation this year.
Our national security depends on our economic health as well as on the strength of our military.
Sincerely,
National groups
Regional/state/community groups*The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending Priorities: An Updated Analysis, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Department of Economics (October 2009) -- wand.org/jobs2010.pdf
Letter organized by the Budget Priorities Working Group--Co-chairs: Miriam Pemberton/Institute for Policy Studies & Marie Rietmann/Women’s Action for New Directions
The Partnership is offering cash prizes for your electronic photos that show your agency’s best, most successful community economic development initiatives in action! We’re looking for great photos that show CA participants and staff doing real labor, weatherization, hands-on training activities, green jobs work, housing activity, microenterprise activity, environmental restoration, outdoor work, indoor work…hey! You show us what you’re proudest of and your projects which contribute to the economic well-being of the community you serve.
Simple criteria. No shots of meetings or sitting around or group shots of folks in ties and prom dresses. We’re looking for pictures that really show your story. Pictures of workers who show pride in what they’re accomplishing; no pictures of folks who look like they’ve been sucking on lemons and hate life (we’ve gotten some of those-honest!). You’ll need to send in a caption for the photo, e.g. names, site, activity, locale and a brief description of the project so we can write it up and add to your glory. We’ll use these in our Promise magazine, on our new CED website (coming soon) and in our weekly eNews.
PRIZES:• First prizes (dead heat!) – two $200 prizes (only one of these per agency). Check payable to your agency.
• Second place (quint-fecta!) – five $100 prizes (only one per agency; yes, you can win one 1st and one 2nd prize). Check payable to your agency.These prizes from a private donor; no federal/public funds used. All photos will become the property of the Community Action Partnership. Your agency always will be credited as we use them.
Email your greatest pics to Ms. Stacy Flowers, our new Director of Community Economic Development sflowers@communityactionpartnership.com
Deadline: March 4, 2010.
(Please send hi-resolution jpgs, 300 dpi, as large as possible. Include description and photo credit, if appropriate. Any technical questions call Dini at 202.449.9787. Thank you.)
Another great Community action success story! Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program, headquartered in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, was awarded the highly-coveted NJBIZ Non-Profit Innovation Award for Financial Growth and Stability. Congratulations to the NORWESCAP staff and board for their exemplary leadership and effectiveness in community economic development.
*** Special note—NORWESCAP CEO/Executive Director Terry Newhard will conduct an intensive workshop on exemplary board of director governance and practices at the Partnership's national convention in Boston on September 2nd. Terry will focus his presentation on the work and model non-profit board design developed by John Carver. Carver's two most influential books Reinventing Your Board and Boards That Make a Difference will be reviewed in the spring issue of The Promise magazine.
Lincoln Action Program changing name
By the Lincoln Journal Star | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:00 pm
Lincoln Action Program is changing its name to Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders Counties.
The move is part of an ongoing national initiative to highlight anti-poverty efforts under way at Community Action Agencies across the country. The initiative was spearheaded by the national office of the Community Action Partnership, the association representing the 1,000-member Community Action Agency network that helps 13 million low-income Americans every year.
"This awareness campaign underscores our dedication to ending poverty and making Lancaster and Saunders Counties better places to live," said Vi See, executive director of Lincoln Action Program. "Many people familiar with Lincoln Action Program don't realize we are part of America's poverty fighting network."
Lincoln Action Program will offer the same service and programs it's offered since 1965.
It will begin using its new name March 1, the same day it plans to launch its new Web site, www.communityactionatwork.org.
Jobs and the economy are the focus of the Winter 2010 issue of The Promise magazine. Read about key national job creation initiatives, a state-of the-art Weatherization Training Center in Louisiana, and how CAAs are tapping into grants and additional resources to expand critical services during these tough economic times. Also included are improvements to the Women, Infants, and Children program, ways to get involved with the Summer Food Service program, the countdown to Census 2010, and a sneak peak of the Annual Convention.
The magazine is mailed to all member agencies. Click here for more information on subscriptions and advertising. Email Sranda Watkins to check on your membership status.
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