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  Important News for Your Agency’s Program Participants
All federal benefits will switch to direct deposit
 
Everyone who receives a federal benefit payment by paper check is required by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to switch to an electronic payment option by March 1, 2013.
 
“I encourage all Community Action staff and affiliates to visit Treasury’s Go Direct campaign website and learn how this new system will help Military veterans, Social Security recipients, SSI and others receive their funds in the safest, most reliable ways,” said Partnership CEO Don Mathis. “Go Direct saves valuable natural resources, time and money for all involved.”
 
Visit www.GoDirect.org today and read how this new payment process will work
   

 
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Click here to learn about the Irwin Siegel Agency alliance with the Partnership or visit their website.
 

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 We are now accepting applications electronically only, using Survey Monkey.
It should only take 20 minutes or so to fill out the form if you have all your information prepared.
 
Click here for the brochure
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The Marriott Chicago Magnificent Mile is offering a fabulous rate of $185 single and double. To make a reservation, call: 1 (800) 228-9290 or (312) 836-0100. You must mention Community Action Partnership to get the convention rate. Click here to register online at the Marriott.


  The 2013 National Community Action Month (May) Toolkit will be posted shortly. To be notified once it is available, send an email to lholland@communityactionpartnership.com 


 

Don Mathis’ (Community Action Partnership President and CEO) letter was published in the February 10, 2013 edition of The New York Times as part of a reader discussion “Sunday Dialogue: How to Give Families a Path Out of Poverty” about safety-net programs better-paying jobs, and support for parents.

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Don Mathis’ (Community Action Partnership President and CEO) letter on President Obama’s State of the Union address was published in the February 17, 2013 edition of The Baltimore Sun.



 

The Partnership and NASCSP have provided two well-attended updates for the Network—Agencies, State Associations and State CSBG Offices—on national efforts to frame Organizational Performance Standards, ROMA Next Generation, and CSBG Performance Management.  These presentations illuminated the processes that are in motion, where there are expectations for input, and how these efforts will be coordinated.

 
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peter-kildeWEEKLY NEW REALITY CHECK

Peter Kilde, Chair
Partnership Strategic Initiatives Task Force

 

 

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Giving Up | March 15, 2013

 Exactly thirty years ago I had the good fortune to spend the winter months at Holden Village, a Lutheran Retreat Center resurrected from an abandoned mining town high in the Cascade Mountains of Washington state.  Holden Village sits in a stunningly beautiful and isolated narrow valley up near the Continental Divide. The only road winds down to a dock on nearby Lake Chelan (the third deepest lake in America) and all personnel, equipment and supplies for the village arrive by ferry.  Electricity is provided by a beautifully crafted and highly reliable 1904 General Electric small hydro plant powered by a mountain stream, and the usually reliable pinsetters in the four lane bowling alley have names like Bill, Sally and Toni. The place gets so much snow that in the winter folks stop walking between buildings on the main floor, and go from building to building on packed snow paths from second story porches.  There were no radios, televisions, telephones, cell phones, internet, email, iPods or smart phones on site in the winter of 1983. Holden Village was generally pretty quiet.  The winter community numbered about sixty, and I was the village “garbologist”, carefully re-cycling, composting and compressing the community trash. It was a wonderful winter full of great memories and the beginning of some wonderful friendships that have endured to this day.

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