National Conversation on
Poverty & Economic Security

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The National  Symposium on Poverty & Economic Security
held in May 2007.

GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Current Draft of the Concept Paper

2. FLOWCHART for a New National Conversation

3. Confirmed Members Advisory Committee

4. Steering Committee

James Norman, Chair, National Symposium on Poverty and Economic Security 

Tim Donnellan, Chair, Community Action Partnership

Anita Lichtblau, CAPLAW

Barry Lamont, Chair, NCAF

Connie Greer, NASCSP

Leonard Dawson, Coastal Georgia Area CAA

John Wilson, Community Action Association of Pennsylvania

Lois Carson, Community Action Partnership of Riverside County

Edith Karsky, Connecticut Association for Community Action 

Mary Ann Vandemark, Human Development Commission, MI

Kip Bowmar, Kentucky Association for Community Action

Jeannie Chaffin, Missouri CSBG Office

Meg Power, NCAF

Ona Porter, New Mexico Association of CAAs

Dana Jones, United Planning Organization

Peter Kilde, West Cap, WI

WORKING GROUP ON THE DEFINITIONS
AND CONDITIONS OF POVERTY

1. Continuum of Economic Security, Draft #4

2. How the Working Group Created a Continuum of Definitions of Economic Security

3. Drafts of Grids

4. Draft of Virtual National Profile on Poverty
 

SYMPOSIUM MAY 29-31

1. Theories of Poverty (papers on this topic)

a. Strategies and Lessons for Reducing Persistent Rural Poverty by James Richardson and Jonathan London
b. Theories of Poverty and Anti-Poverty Programs in Community Development by Ted Bradshaw

2. Marketplace of Ideas (workshop info)

3. Creating Community Action's recommendations for national goals, measures, strategies

a. The input from the state and local meetings:

California, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Wisconsin, Michigan, Kansas: Education, Health Care & Wage Equality, San Bernardino, Illinois

b. The Official Transcripts

• Transcript Edition #3, September 30, 2007

• Transcript from the Small Groups at the Symposium, May 31, 2007

• Transcript 2nd Edition, incorporating the ideas from the Partnership Convention in San Diego, August, 2007

c.  Timeline for creating the community action network's plan

THE PROCESS FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF STATE & LOCAL MEETINGS STARTING JUNE 1, 2007

SUMMIT

1. Local Planning Guide

2. Agenda and process

3. Invitees