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2010 National Community Action Month
Planning Guide Now Available! Celebrate Your Successful Community Partnerships during May!
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” ![]()
The Winter 2010 issue of The Promise is now available!
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.
1st Year of Rooting Out Poverty Campaign focus of National Press Club Event
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