YOUR RESPONSES TO THIS SURVEY WILL STRENGTHEN OUR COMMUNITY ACTION MOVEMENT   Community Action Partnership needs your help. We've just launched a 3 year project to identify and promote successful community economic development in the Community Action network. We will be developing and providing tools, training and technical assistance to strengthen the community economic development capacity of the network. In addition to this project, we are also hoping to learn more about successful Community Action Agency efforts to create jobs and in particular, green jobs. Below is the survey link from the Partnership that asks for your input on a series of community economic development and job creation topics, including what your agency does now, what training & technical assistance needs & opportunities are of greatest need and interest to you, and other relevant matters. Your input is very important in helping guide the Partnership with its planning of future training and resource development and information exchange opportunities that you can use. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7M929XL The Partnership is working closely with the federal Office of Community Services (OCS) on a variety of community economic development, job creation, and green jobs initiatives. These range from a three-year OCS grant to the Partnership to identify, package, provide T&TA on exemplary practices on community economic development to our role as a lead agency in an OCS working group (with NASCSP, CAPLAW, and NCAF) on job creation and green jobs. If you already have sent your jobs/economic development materials to Don Mathis as part of our earlier requests for our federal Pathways Out of Poverty application or our eNews this past fall asking for your program descriptions on your jobs and employment & training programs, your information is still on file in the Partnership office and will be factored in to this week’s survey and you do not need to resend. There are many, many success stories in our Community Action network about incredibly creative and effective economic development programs and practices that are making systemic improvements in communities across our nation. And given the continuing challenges with unemployment and under-employment statistics nationwide, Community Action’s work in helping people find and keep jobs while working with their local Workforce Investment Boards and private sector employers are stories and strategies that we want to share with policymakers, potential funders, and people-of-influence.