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Reauthorizing CSBG: How & Why?

Learn about the importance of reauthorizing the CSBG Act, its proposed updates, and the goals and purposes it aims to achieve. Presented by David Bradley, Executive Director of the National Community Action Foundation.

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Reauthorizing CSBG: How & Why?

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  1. Reauthorizing CSBG: How & Why? Presented by David BradleyExecutive Director, National Community Action Foundation

  2. Background: • CSBG • Created in 1981 • Last reauthorized in 1998 (through FY2003) Coming up in 2013:The 9th Anniversary of Community Action with no CSBG law in effect!

  3. Why Are CAAs Still Here? Because appropriations bills say, “Fund the CSBG Act of 1998!”

  4. Why Update CSBG? • Address for current needs • Use words that work today • Affirm national commitment to local decision-making

  5. Why Update CSBG? Cont. • Allow innovation • Support the comprehensive approach to fighting poverty • Achieve and measure results

  6. The Structure of This Presentation

  7. Name of the Act

  8. What’s New In Proposed Bill? • Promotes innovation by requiring states to budget (2%) for a Community Action Innovations Program • Flexibility on length of project • Uses of Funds (property-)

  9. What’s New In Proposed Bill? Cont. • Clarify needs assessment, strategic and operating plans • Makes CAA Annual Plan(s) the basis for State Plan

  10. What’s New In Proposed Bill? Cont. • Professionalization • Requires training for CAA, State, and Federal level staff • Aligns eligibilityso that no client can be dropped before completing a program due to an increase in income

  11. PURPOSES AND GOALS

  12. PURPOSESAND GOALS

  13. PURPOSES AND GOALS

  14. PURPOSES AND GOALS

  15. PURPOSES AND GOALS

  16. PURPOSES AND GOALS

  17. OCS TRAINING, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

  18. TRAINING, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

  19. OCS TRAINING, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

  20. OCS TRAINING, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

  21. OCS TRAINING, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

  22. ALLOTMENTS AND PAYMENTS TO STATES

  23. ALLOTMENTS AND PAYMENTS TO STATES

  24. ALLOTMENTS AND PAYMENTS TO STATES

  25. [STATE] USES OF FUNDS

  26. [STATE] USES OF FUNDS

  27. [STATE] USES OF FUNDS

  28. [STATE] USES OF FUNDS

  29. [STATE] USUES OF FUNDS

  30. [STATE] USES OF FUNDS

  31. [STATE] USES OF FUNDS

  32. [STATE] USES OF FUNDS

  33. [STATE] USES OF FUNDS

  34. New Requirements: Good Management

  35. New Requirements: Good Management

  36. STRONGER STATE AGENCY

  37. STRONGER STATE OFFICE

  38. [STATE] APPLICATION AND PLAN

  39. [STATE] APPLICATION AND PLAN

  40. [STATE] APPLICATION AND PLAN

  41. [STATE] APPLICATION AND PLAN

  42. [STATE] APPLICATION AND PLAN

  43. [STATE] APPLICATION AND PLAN

  44. [STATE] APPLICATION AND PLAN

  45. [STATE] APPLICATION AND PLAN

  46. CLEAN UP CAA PROGRAM

  47. COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM PLAN

  48. COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM PLAN

  49. [STATE] APPLICATION AND PLAN

  50. APPLICATION AND PLAN

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