The time is right for a nonprofit mission to eradicate poverty in the U.S. Escalating poverty is a concern for all and impacts nonprofits serving all purposes, from arts to environment to human services. What are the root causes and what can be done? The UK has committed to zero poverty by 2020. What are they doing to get there and how can we adopt this goal in Southwestern PA? Examine the bold policies set in the U.K. to eradicate poverty by 2020 and learn about other local initiatives that are helping to build the movement.
S13c6 chapter 6- facts and figures on healthShivu P
Health does not mean the 'hospital and the doctors', health is the reflection of nutrition/food, water, environment, air, pollution, society, infrastructure and the leaders intelligence. In this chapter some of the facts and figures related to family and health, various causes for death in various age groups in different locations, food insecurity - hunger - under nutrition, why orphanages are increasing, environment - water supply - sanitation -its impact on health care, doctor - population ratio, money spent on health, measures taken by the government still not able to achieve the satisfactory results, why millennium development goals are not achieved and how these can be handled well with model village and model nation are mentioned.
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165 miljoen kinderen zijn wereldwijd chronisch ondervoed. Dit zorgt niet alleen voor kind dat sterft als gevolg van ondervoeding, elke 15 seconden, het heeft ook als gevolg dat kinderen daar de rest van hun leven onder lijden. Het is een groot probleem maar er zijn ook grote kansen om dit probleem aan te pakken
The Forbes Funds Soundings Breakfast Session on the Wage and Compensation of ...GPNP
The Forbes Funds launched its first volume of the Soundings Report – a flash report that provides timely information, measures the “pulse” of the nonprofit sector, and provides quick and efficient data points to tell the story of a particular issue. This first issue looks at the Wage and Compensation of the Nonprofit Sector. In this study, we sought to answer a few questions: 1) are nonprofits contributing to the issue of escalating poverty by providing low wages with limited benefits; 2) are nonprofit employees able to retire with the type of wages and benefits they are receiving; and 3) are nonprofits still able to provide competitive compensation packages given the escalating cost of health care. Of the human services and community development organizations surveyed in this report, we found that over 50% of their employees are paid at or below 300% of the poverty level. On the positive note, 76% of agencies provide retirement benefits and 88% provide health coverage of some sort. What does this mean for your workplace and for the nonprofit community?
S13c6 chapter 6- facts and figures on healthShivu P
Health does not mean the 'hospital and the doctors', health is the reflection of nutrition/food, water, environment, air, pollution, society, infrastructure and the leaders intelligence. In this chapter some of the facts and figures related to family and health, various causes for death in various age groups in different locations, food insecurity - hunger - under nutrition, why orphanages are increasing, environment - water supply - sanitation -its impact on health care, doctor - population ratio, money spent on health, measures taken by the government still not able to achieve the satisfactory results, why millennium development goals are not achieved and how these can be handled well with model village and model nation are mentioned.
Testimony from Bonnie Rateree, Cook County PLACE MATTERS, July 23, 2015 at th...CookCountyPLACEMATTERS
Testimony to the Public Hearing for the South Suburban Communities July 23, 2015, Gloria Taylor Banquet Hall, 14820 Broadway, Harvey, IL Hosted by: Illlinois Commission to End Disparities of American Americans; Co-Chairs: State Representative Monique Davis and State Senator Emil Jones. Community Co sponsors: Illinois African American Family Commission; Harvey Area Chamber of Commerce
165 miljoen kinderen zijn wereldwijd chronisch ondervoed. Dit zorgt niet alleen voor kind dat sterft als gevolg van ondervoeding, elke 15 seconden, het heeft ook als gevolg dat kinderen daar de rest van hun leven onder lijden. Het is een groot probleem maar er zijn ook grote kansen om dit probleem aan te pakken
The Forbes Funds Soundings Breakfast Session on the Wage and Compensation of ...GPNP
The Forbes Funds launched its first volume of the Soundings Report – a flash report that provides timely information, measures the “pulse” of the nonprofit sector, and provides quick and efficient data points to tell the story of a particular issue. This first issue looks at the Wage and Compensation of the Nonprofit Sector. In this study, we sought to answer a few questions: 1) are nonprofits contributing to the issue of escalating poverty by providing low wages with limited benefits; 2) are nonprofit employees able to retire with the type of wages and benefits they are receiving; and 3) are nonprofits still able to provide competitive compensation packages given the escalating cost of health care. Of the human services and community development organizations surveyed in this report, we found that over 50% of their employees are paid at or below 300% of the poverty level. On the positive note, 76% of agencies provide retirement benefits and 88% provide health coverage of some sort. What does this mean for your workplace and for the nonprofit community?
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C ommentariesEnding Childhood Poverty in America 0c—Mari.docxjasoninnes20
C ommentaries
Ending Childhood Poverty in America 0c—
Marian Wright Edelman
From the Children’s Defense Fund, Washington, DC
The author reports no conflicts of interest.
Address correspondence to Marian Wright Edelman, Children’s Defense Fund, 25 E St NW, Washington, DC 20001 (e-mail: [email protected]
childrensdefense.org).
A cademic Pediatrics 2016;16:S6-S7
SARAH IS 3 years old. She and her 6-year-old brother,
Bryce, are inseparable except when it’s time for him to visit
the summer food program that provides meals at a school
near their Ohio home for children who otherwise would
go hungry. Sarah’s too young to make the trip. One morn
ing after Bryce had his fill of food for the day he made a
detour before heading home. He walked to the trash cans
and began rummaging through food others threw away.
Winnie Brewer, the Food Services Supervisor in Marion
City Schools, noticed the little boy and tapped him on
the shoulder to ask why he was sifting through the garbage.
“My little sister,” he explained. “She's hungry.” Bringing
her leftover food was the only way he knew to help.
“We run into a lot of situations where kids will come and
say they have younger siblings at home,” Brewer says.
“They always want to know if they can take something
back.” After Brewer spoke with Bryce, staff members fol
lowed him home with a care package for little Sarah. This
was a temporary solution to a huge problem Brewer
worries about every day. “Until we see that child digging
food out of a trash can, it doesn’t hit home,” Brewer
says. “When it does, you know you have to do something.”
Sarah and Bryce (not their real names) are far from
alone. Hunger is only one of the dangerous risks of growing
up poor in rich America. Despite 6 years of economic re
covery, children remain the poorest group in America
and the younger they are the poorer they are. The United
States has the second highest child poverty rate among
35 industrialized countries despite having the largest econ
omy in the world. More than 1 in 5 children in America
(21.1%) were living in poverty in 2014, compared with
13.5% of people ages 18 to 64 years and 10% of those
aged 65 years and older. Nearly 1 in 4 children younger
than the age of 5 years (23.8%) are poor during some of
the years of greatest brain development. Seventy percent
of the 15.5 million poor children in America were children
of color— who already constitute most of our nation’s
youngest children and will be the majority of all the chil
dren in our nation by 2020.
Poverty hurts children, creates opportunity gaps that can
last a lifetime, and hurts the nation’s economy. The toxic
stress of early poverty stunts children’s emotional and
physical development and increases the likelihood of
poor academic achievement and dropping out of high
school, which then increases the likelihood of unemploy
ment, economic hardship, and involvement in the criminal
justice system as an adult. These effects ...
A presentation that I composed while speaking to a solutions group in Grand Rapids about how we could go about problem solving the issue of American poverty.
THE RECENT SLOWDOWN IN THE WAR ON POVERTY 50 Y.docxAASTHA76
THE RECENT SLOWDOWN IN
THE WAR ON POVERTY 50
YEARS LATER:
A PROGRESS REPORT
The Council of Economic Advisers
January 2014
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Executive Summary
“Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope—some because of their poverty,
and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. Our task is to help replace
their despair with opportunity. This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional
war on poverty in America. I urge this Congress and all Americans to join with me in that effort.”
- President Lyndon B. Johnson, January 8, 1964
Fifty years ago, in January of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “War on Poverty”
and introduced initiatives designed to improve the education, health, skills, jobs, and access to
economic resources of those struggling to make ends meet. While there is more work to do, in
the ensuing decades we have strengthened and reformed many of these programs and had
significant success in reducing poverty. In this report, the Council of Economic Advisers presents
evidence of the progress made possible by decades of bipartisan efforts to fight poverty by
expanding economic opportunity and rewarding hard work. We also document some of the
key steps the Obama Administration has taken to further increase opportunity and economic
security by improving key programs while ensuring greater efficiency and integrity. These steps
prevented millions of hardworking Americans from slipping into poverty during the worst
economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Poverty has declined by more than one-third since 1967.
The percent of the population in poverty when measured to include tax credits and
other benefits has declined from 25.8 percent in 1967 to 16.0 percent in 2012.
These figures use new historical estimates of the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty
Measure (SPM) anchored to today’s poverty thresholds. The SPM is widely
acknowledged to measure poverty more accurately than the official poverty measure,
which excludes the value of refundable tax credits and benefits like nutrition assistance
and has other limitations.
By anchoring the measure to today’s poverty standards we are able to ask how many
people in each year since 1967 would have had inflation-adjusted family resources
below the 2012 SPM poverty thresholds.
Despite real progress in the War on Poverty, there is more work to do.
In 2012, there were 49.7 million Americans grappling with the economic and social
hardships of living below the poverty line, including 13.4 million children.
While the United States is often seen as the land of economic opportunity, only about
half of low-income Americans make it out of the lowest income distribution quintile
over a 20-year period. About 40 percent of the differences in parents’ income are
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reflected in children’s income as they become adults, pointing to strong lingerin.
Joe Geiger from the Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations provided an insightful advocacy training to members of the Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership at our 2011 Semi-Annual Membership Meeting.
The Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership hosted its 2011 Semi-Annual Membership Meeting on June 22, 2011. Ron Kramer from Schneider Downs presented on the potential changes to charitable deductions. Members Laura Maines, Bernadette Turner, and Dave Coplan provided a PA budget update, an update on our three committees' work, and an introduction to our 2012 dues changes, respectively. Thanks to all, including our Chair, Colleen Fedor and President, Diana Bucco for leading the meeting.
Pittsburgh Nonprofit Summit - We Got Funded! What Social Innovations are Bei...GPNP
Over 50 applications were submitted to the inaugural federal Social Innovation Fund and 11 agencies were awarded funding. Hear directly from the grantees of the SIF, learn about the re-granting process and find out what is required to compete at these levels. Also, hear the lessons learned from the first round and learn what is being changed for the current round of funding.
Pittsburgh Nonprofit Summit - Our Voice in Setting Good Public PoliciesGPNP
What is happening with the trillion dollar national debt and what does that mean for federal and state funding for your organization? How do government decisions impact your organization? How can you and your constituents engage in the public policy process and to help structure and pass good public policy that will make our communities a better place to love, work, and play? Learn about local and national efforts your organization can engage with.
Pittsburgh Nonprofit Summit - Technology & Social Media GPNP
You are probably aware of the Pittsburgh Day of Giving through Pittsburgh Gives, and you have heard that there are online tools out there that can help you raise money; but how can you optimize your Pittsburgh Gives opportunity and where do you find those online tools? Online funding platforms are becoming increasingly popular and mobile networks are also entering this realm. Join our panel of experts and learn about the various ways you can use funding platforms and mobile networks to increase giving.
Pittsburgh Nonprofit Summit - Health Care & Health Care Reform - Implications...GPNP
The health care act is difficult to navigate and nonprofits were written into the act under the auspices of small businesses, making it even more confusing to understand. Gain insights from experts about the intent of the act and the act in its current draft, how it will impact nonprofits as small businesses, the impact on staff, those we serve, and on society at large. Additionally, portions of the act are still being debated and amended; learn of the potential changes and points where the nonprofit sector can influence the outcome.
Pittsburgh Nonprofit Summit - Poverty in Southwest PA - A Strategy for Stoppi...GPNP
Natalie Branosky, Director of the Center for Economic & Social Inclusion highlighted the poverty situation in Southwest PA utilizing UK indicators and began the dialogue on a strategy to reverse the trend in the Pittsburgh region.
Pittsburgh Nonprofit Summit - Managing and Supporting a Changing Labor MarketGPNP
As the nonprofit sector prepares for significant leadership transition, as the next generation is looking for a different work experience, and as the average tenure of employees continues to decrease, what will be the impact on nonprofits as they prepare for the changing labor market? Here, Stefani Pashman from the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board shares a look at the Pittsburgh nonprofit labor market.
Pittsburgh Nonprofit Summit - Measuring Change - Moving From Outputs to Outco...GPNP
More and more funders are only supporting evidence based models. What does this mean and how can your organization implement an evidence based model? A panel of experts has been assembled to answer any and all questions your organization has on how it can move from outputs to outcomes to impact. Brainstorm real strategies that your organization can implement and meet other organizations who are also moving towards an evidence based model.
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Pittsburgh Nonprofit Summit - Zero Poverty by 2020 Workshop
1. Zero Poverty by 2020 Learn How it’s Done 10:00am – 11:15am Facilitator: Jordana Stephens, Eden Hall Foundation Speakers:Natalie Branosky, Center for Economic & Social Inclusion / Vic Papale, Southwestern PA Food Security Partnership / Bobbi Watt-Geer, United Way of Westmoreland County
2. Share your thoughts! Text “Summit” to 57682 with your feedback and thoughts on today’s event! Share your thoughts on Twitter by adding #GPNPSummit to your tweets!
3. The UK’s Poverty Target: Something for Everyone Natalie Branosky Director Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion Washington DC
4. The Target and Milestones Announced by PM Tony Blair in March 1999: …by one quarter by 2004-05 …by half by 2010 …and eradicate it by 2020 “Our historic aim, that ours is the first generation to end child poverty forever. It’s a 20-year mission, but I believe it can be done.”
6. Turning a Target into Legislation “It is right to cement in legislation a commitment to ensure that unjust inequalities are ended and that everyone has the opportunity to succeed in life.” UK Secretary of State for Children, Schools & Families Chief Secretary of the Treasury UK Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
7. The purpose of legislation Measure success in eradicating child poverty Set a vision and drive progress towards 2020 Establish an accountability framework Initiate local action to tackle child poverty Ensure a UK wide approach It ensures that everyone plays their part – “child poverty is everybody’s business.”
8. The vision for eradicating child poverty by 2020 Working families should see a clear path out of poverty Life chances: Every child, whatever their background can achieve the five ECM outcomes Income Outcomes Those who can’t work receive the practical and financial support they need to lift them out of poverty Communities: Families live in safe, cohesive and prosperous communities where children can thrive
9. To achieve it requires a broad strategy It requires national, regional and local action: services are key to ensuring the ‘building blocks’ are a reality for all families in their area. But it is NOT just about income poverty.
10. Child poverty is everybody’s business Local businesses Police officer Youth worker Hospitals Tax attorney schools Enviro planners workforce housing neighborhoods
12. THE VICIOUS CIRCLE 370,000 people hungry Poverty/Hunger/ Health/Education
13. A Brief History of Hunger and Food Assistance in the United States Pre-Civil War Poverty and hunger realities in countryside and in budding cities Responses: Individual charity Faith-based charity Local “Poor Districts” – from the English Poor Laws models Post-Civil War Poverty still widespread – taking on the particular features of the industrial revolution and the disparities of the Gilded Age Periodic “panics” (i.e., recessions and depressions) Coxey’s Army – 1894 and 1914 Responses: Private, faith-based and Poor Districts continue New on the Scene – Settlement Houses The Great Depression “One-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clothed and ill-fed” – FDR Responses: Long lines at soup kitchens, settlement houses, etc. Grain purchases to help farmers – Hoover Distribute wheat to feed the hungry – Congress Surplus commodity procurement and distribution – FDR May 16, 1939 – Food Stamps Orange stamps – for sale Blue stamps – 50 cents worth for every orange stamp purchased
14. Post-New Deal Apparent abundance during WWII – full employment and a massive armed services employing “everyone” Responses: 1943 – Food Stamp program terminated – for lack of need 1946 – School lunch program begins after Truman reads study revealing many men failed to be drafted during the war due to malnutrition experienced during childhood Early 1950’s – Meals on Wheels started in a Philadelphia, PA Settlement House (the Lighthouse) after learning how the English responded to shut ins and homeless during the Blitz 1959 – Food Stamp program revised by Congress, but not implemented by Eisenhower Administration Michael Harrington, “The Other America” 1961 – Kennedy Administration implements the Food Stamp Program in response to what he saw in West Virginia in the 1960 campaign and in response to Harrington 1964 – Food Stamp Act – made the program permanent 1965-68 – Robert Kennedy witnesses starvation in the South M. L. King & Ralph Abernathy organize the Poor People’s March 1968 – Summer Food Program 1973 – beginning of the end of the post-WW II U. S. economic domination 1974 – WIC 1977 – Food Stamp purchasing requirement ended Jan. 1, 1979 – took effect End of 1979 – 20 million Food Stamp participants 1980 – 2011 Deindustrialization; “stagflation;” booms and busts; homelessness and hunger; growing awareness of nutrition issues and values Responses: Programs grow and modernize (credit cards replace stamps) Food banks organize, respond to growing need; adopt various efficiencies and nutrition standards The Challenge Ahead?
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19. FOOD SECURITY Food security is a term used by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to describe the situation when the food intake of one or more members of a household is reduced and eating patterns are disrupted because the household lacks money and other resources for food. National Center for Children in Poverty, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University"
20. FOOD INSECURITY Unable at times during the year to put adequate food on the table HUNGER The physical and mental reactions that can accompany a lack of sufficient food.
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22. The highest % of obese children are from low-income familiesPennsylvania’s obesity rates are higher than those in 36 other states and the District of Columbia: “the state has many lower socioeconomic communities, where there is a lack of healthy foods available and a lack of opportunities to be physically active.”* *Grace Patuwo, “Battle for Health,” — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August, 4, 2010
31. 1.4 times more likely to repeat a grade**(Dr. Larry Brown, Harvard School of Public Health)
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37. 5 STEPS TO CUT HUNGER IN THE REGION IN HALF IN 5 YEARS Increase Access To And Utilization Of Existing Food Assistance Programs Build Broad Community Engagement To Close The Hunger Gap Advocate For Strong Public Policies Social Service Agency Cooperation To Address Larger Issues Of Poverty Ensure More Efficient Administration Of Systems And Resources
45. Origin of M3 Status of Women in Westmoreland County Research Project (2008) Poverty Pay Equity Leadership Health & Well-being Violence
46. Face of Poverty: Westmoreland County, PA Disproportionately female (13.3% women in poverty, 7.7% men). Particularly female-headed households with children under 18 years of age. 48% of Westmoreland County FHH lived in poverty in 2009.
48. More About Female Headed Households Living in Poverty FHH living in poverty is Up! From 2006-2009 the percentage of FHH living in poverty has risen from 41 to 48%in Westmoreland. 7,500 FHH living in poverty in our community. Median Income for FHH was $19,499 in 2009. Overall Poverty for Westmoreland County Women – Up! 3000 22,243 females of all ages which has gone up by 3,000 women since the original study.
50. Local Strategies Awareness & Education Mothers Making More - M3 Supporting Financial Stability efforts of United Way partners Circles Volunteer Income Tax Assistance: engaging volunteers and corporate partners Safety net service support
51. Mothers Making More: M3 Joining forces to improve long-term financial stability for female-headed households Partners: Excela HealthSeton Hill UniversityUnited Way of Westmoreland CountyWestmoreland Community ActionWestmoreland County Community College Westmoreland-Fayette Workforce Investment Board
52. M3 Pilot Phase Employees Career Ladders Learning Specifications Financial Education Case Management M3 Tuition BooksCurriculum Grant Funding Special Needs Career Ladder Support Books and Resources Coordination
53. M3: Next Steps Expand recruitment, inviting mothers who use Head Start services Involve other corporate partners Expand education institution partners Support enrollees Evaluate outcomes
54. Mothers Making More • M3 www.unitedway4u.org http://unitedway4u.org/media/StatusWomenReportFINAL.pdf
55. Thank you from the Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership!
56. Workshop Evaluation Text “Zero” to 57682 with your answers to the following questions: Please rate the overall value of this workshop E – Excellent G – Good P – Poor F – Fair Did you learn anything that you will apply at your own organization? Y – Yes N - No Please text other comments and feedback. Submit by hitting “send!” You will receive an auto-reply from the GPNP. Sample text: “Zero E Y This is a serious issue that my organization is also working on and we’re ready to contribute to the larger effort.”
Editor's Notes
Excela Health identifies eligible female employees earning near or below poverty guidelineExcela Health identifies career ladders: RN, Radiology tech, etc.Westmoreland Community Action provides economic stability class & case managementExcela Health, Westmoreland County Community College & Workforce Investment Board coordinate tuition and booksUnited Way assists with grant funding and special needs, i.e. computer, Internet, gas cards