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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.
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.
NEW FEATURE
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WEEKLY NEW REALITY CHECK
Peter Kilde, Chair
Partnership Strategic Initiatives Task Force
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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